Publish date: 23 September 2024
It’s Occupational Health Awareness Week (OHAW24) and an opportunity to remind staff about how the Trust’s Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service and teams can support you.
Mersey Care aims to ensure that all staff are provided with an environment and opportunities that encourage and enable them to lead healthy lives and make choices that support their wellbeing.
The service looks at the impact of health on work and work on health. This may be specifically work related or an individual who wants to improve their health and wellbeing as a preventative measure.
Our Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service offers a wide programme of resources, advice and activity to support the health and wellbeing of our staff community.
Our Occupational Health and Wellbeing Team
What we do and how we can help you: Our adminstration team are the first point of contact for staff. They are able to assist with helping you accesss the right support within the OHWB team.
How we help the Trust: The team provides an organised and confidential support to its stakeholders ensuring records are kept up to date, responding to queries efficiently and effectively, and facilitates communication between our clients and the Multidisciplinary Team services we provide.
How to contact us: To contact the team to access any of the services we provide please call 01925 664 010 or email OHWB
Our opening hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm.
What we do and how we can help you: Our core Occupational Health (OH) Medicine team consists of Consultant Occupational Health Physicians (OHP), Speciality Trainees in Occupational Medicine, Clinical OH Lead Nurse Specialists, Senior OH Nurse Specialists (SOHA) and OH Clinic Nurses who all provide a range of activities to support staff such as:
- Management referrals to provide impartial advice on fitness to work to both managers and colleagues
- Pre-employment screening and health clearacne
- Immunisations, vaccinations and blood tests for occupational related diseases
- Health Surveillance ie audiometry, skin etc
- Health Screening ie statutroy driver medicals
- General work-related health queries from managers and colleagues.
We also have physiotherapy provision offering treatment and advice on prevention and management of muscular skeletal conditions as well as functional assessments for role and PSS/breakway where required
How we help the Trust: Working with both managers and colleagues we provide recommendations and advice that can be used to support health conditions at work, facilitate absence management and help people stay well in work. This leads to a healthier workforce, improved recovery and return to work and enabling staff to continue to provide the best care for our service users
How to contact us: Management and self referrals can be made via out OH IT platform OPAS G2 - Occupational Health and Wellbeing referrals :: YourSpace Mersey Care.
Call us on 01942 664010 or email ohwb
Our opening hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm.
What we do and how we can help you: Our Psychological Therapies service offers support to all staff who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health. We support our colleagues by offering an assessment of their current and past experiences, from there we offer access to a suitable short term evidence based intervention. This is aimed at supporting the Trust colleague to understand and manage with their difficulties and to help them to maintain their psychological wellbeing. The evidence based interventions we offer are currently; Psycho-education groups, counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). Some examples of the difficulties we support are; Depression, Anxiety disorders, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Bereavement and loss and Work related issues.
How we help the Trust: By supporting colleagues with their mental health difficulties we aim to support improvement in absence management and help people stay well in work. This leads to a healthier workforce, improved recovery and greater ability to return to work following a period of sickness.
How to contact us: To make a referral into the PTS team please call 01925 664 010 or email OHWB
Our opening hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
What we do and how we can help you: We are here to encourage and enable staff to lead healthy lives and make choices that support their wellbeing. We offer a range of support such as facilitating self management education workshops and training, providng peer support programmes and signposting to further internal and external wellbeing respources and partner organisations to support your physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing needs
How we help the Trust: We understand the demands on staff and know one size doesn’t fit all, so are keen to work with staff teams to support wellbeing needs and provide targeted help that enables access to wellbeing opportunites in a way that works best for staff teams. Our Wellbeing team can work across all Mersey Care sites and provides support in a flexible and inclusive way, including in-person and virtually.
How to contact us: Fnd out about the full range of support from the Wellbeing team on YourSpace - yourspace.merseycare.nhs.uk/staff-wellbeing-hub
Email us at wellbeinghub
