Well-being Week 2025

Social Care Wales and Healthy Working Wales

Healthy Working Wales will join us to talk about:

• its free digital offer, dedicated to improving workplace health and preventing ill-health in all organisations in Wales
• why supporting employees with long-term health conditions such as musculoskeletal health conditions (MSKs) is a health topic all social care employers should address.

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Social Care Wales and RCS wellbeing for work

Every part of our working life affects our well-being, including the environment in which we work, how we feel about our work, the organisation and the people we work with.

This workshop will be a great opportunity to:

• take some time to think about the content of your organisation’s policies
• hear suggestions and advice about how to change your policies to better support well-being in your workplace
• share ideas with other managers and team leaders on how to make policies effective and meaningful
• discuss what to include in a well-being at work policy
• get policy templates and links to further resources and support you could include.

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We know that more people are moving to Wales to provide vital care and support.

Supported and motivated workers are more likely to carry on working for you for longer.

We will share with you a guide that is available to support people who are new to living and working in Wales.

This session will also connect you to other managers and team leaders to share experiences of how to welcome new staff and settle them into their new role.

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Social Care Wales and Cortecs mental health and well-being specialists

Are you aware of your own mental health? Can you recognise and respond when you feel stressed or anxious?

This session is an introduction Cortecs’s Mental health and well-being toolkit for teams and managers programme.

In this session, we’ll share some techniques that focus on reducing stress and anxiety, lifting your mood and increasing your resilience, well-being and ability to cope.

The session will be interactive, and you’ll be able to share your own experiences and tips if you want to.

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Feeling connected, supported and able to be open and honest are key to feeling psychologically safe at work.

Research tells us that high levels of psychological safety predict good performance, safety and outcomes.

But is this always possible when we feel stressed and have increasing workloads?

This session explores how we can work to maintain psychological safety for ourselves, and the people we work with, in challenging times.

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Social Care Wales and Wrexham County Borough Council

Prioritising your well-being as a working student can be challenging when you’re trying to manage your home, work and studies.

In this session, Tracey Evans, QCF Assessor and trainer at Wrexham County Borough Council, will share her tips for supporting people through their learning to gain qualifications, while managing working and home demands.

We’ll also be joined by current students who’ll share their experiences and what works for them.

You’re also welcome to join in with the discussion and share your methods for balancing learning with home and work, or the ways you’re supporting people to learn.

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Social Care Wales and Canopi

Feeling supported by the people we work with is one of the most important things that affect our well-being at work.

Some people at work will develop relationships which they find supportive – especially when work is challenging. For others, it doesn’t happen as easily.

This session will consider some simple steps you can take to create a workplace where supportive conversations are normal, encouraged and able to happen often.

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'Speaking up safely' arrangements are really important in the workplace. They help to protect the workforce and the people we support and makes for better quality care.

Having the right culture is key for people to be able raise a concern in work and feel they are listened to and supported appropriately throughout.

In this session, we'll look at how compassionate leadership enables people to speak up safely at work. It will include what good ‘speaking up safely’ arrangements looks like and what you should have in place.

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Social Care Wales and Bridgend County Borough Council

How would a critical incident affect your team’s well-being? Would you know how to support them to recover?

In July 2021, Bridgend County Borough Council experienced a high-profile child death which led to significant scrutiny from the media and regulatory partners.

Evidence shows that local authorities which go through tragedies like this one can expect to see an unprecedented level of demand for at least two years afterwards.

In this session, we’ll hear:

• how the timing of the incident affected the team’s resilience and stability
• why and how the team focused on well-being, recruitment and retention to help their workforce to respond to the incident and deal with the aftermath
• what the team learned from the experience
• what impact and learning came from this way of working.

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