Leading for enhanced wellbeing in the workplace

This one-year BSc (Hons) Integrated Health, Social Care and Wellbeing (Top-Up) is designed for anyone who has previously studied a relevant / related subject, up to Level 5. The course is designed to expands upon your current knowledge and understanding of the health, social care, and wellbeing sector, by now considering the industry from a different perspective. The modules are designed for you to reflect on your own leadership styles and qualities and review your current practice. Explore international healthcare and consider how we could implement positive changes in your own area of practice. This final year will prepare you to adapt to the ongoing changes happening in this dynamic sector.

Care Management Matters (CMM) has partnered with the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) to offer affordable, confidential counselling for Registered Managers in adult social care.

Key information:

• 100% confidential – only you and the counsellor you choose will know you’ve accessed support
• Delivered by trained therapists who understand your role
• One reduced, fixed price for all users
• Choose the time and date that works best for you
• Open to CMM members – membership is free.

Although the counselling is already offered at a reduced rate, care providers can choose to fully or partially fund the support for their Registered Managers. This can have a positive impact on wellbeing, recruitment and retention.

This guide shares tools and strategies to promote financial wellbeing in the workplace.

Social and political change, terrorism, climate change, disruptive technologies, and shifts in geopolitical power are just a few of the sources of radical uncertainty that organisations around the world are facing. This microcredential will support you in developing the skills, capabilities and perspectives needed to take effective action when faced with issues and opportunities that arise from this uncertainty. You’ll develop new ways of engaging with radical uncertainties, think critically about how uncertainties are distributed in societies and organisations, and develop greater resilience in the face of unexpected events.

Understand the pressures of the modern workplace, and learn what you can do to promote mental wellbeing in your organisation.

You’ll finish the course with the safeguarding and sensitivity training you need to support your colleagues and make a difference on an individual level.

These courses are designed for managers and teams to help you create a more supportive environment in your workplace. There are in-person or virtual learning options available, as well as shorter and convenient online (e-learning) options too.

The Principles of Commissioning for Wellbeing level 5 qualification is centred around personalised and outcome focused approaches to commissioning designed to enable meaningful and fulfilled lives.

The course content covers a range of knowledge and its application to commissioning practice. Content is regularly updated and contextualised in terms of policy changes and so currently explores, for example, commissioning practice in the context of ICSs, reform and changes in charging policy. 

This qualification is listed in the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC’s) new Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme. It may be possible to claim up to £2,820 towards the cost of a place under this new scheme.

Employers have a duty of care to support employee’s health, safety, and wellbeing to the best of their ability. As a manager or leader operating in the health and care sector and during the Covid-19 pandemic, you might recognise the daily challenges staff face and therefore the importance of doing all we can to support mental wellbeing.

Wellbeing at work relates to every aspect of working life, from the working environment to how the workforce feels about themselves.

Stress and burn-out are real issues for adult social care staff and with the added challenges and restrictions of the pandemic, workforce wellbeing has never been so important. 

Supporting the health and wellbeing of the workforce is essential in making sure that people with care and support needs and their families receive good quality care so they can live as independently as possible. 

The flexible Workplace Health and Wellbeing MSc (Distance Learning) will help you develop the knowledge to become an effective research-practitioner. You’ll gain a critical insight into scientific theory and evidence that informs the management of health and wellbeing in the contemporary work setting and develop a skillset for evidence-based practice.