See the programme of events for Well-being Week 2025, which runs from 20 to 24 January 2025.
Well-being Week 2025 is a week of online events where people in the sector can come together to learn about well-being and share best practice.
The events are open to everyone in the sector. If you’re registered with us, attending events will count towards your continuing professional development (CPD).
You can attend as many events as you like.
Our events
We'll keep updating this page until Well-being Week. Check back soon for more information about the sessions!
Webinar: what we know about well-being at work
Social Care Wales and Healthy Working Wales
In this session, we’ll share the well-being themes that came up in our workforce survey and how you can give the right well-being support for people working in social care, early years childcare and play.
Healthy Working Wales will join us to talk about their workplace guidance, covering key themes including:
- supporting people with health conditions in work
- women’s health
- mental health.
Workshop: how to create policies which support well-being at work
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.
Workshop: how to support people who are new to living and working in Wales
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.
Workshop: what’s in your mental health toolkit?
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.
Webinar: understanding psychological safety
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.
Workshop: well-being for learners
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.
How to create spaces for supportive conversations
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.
How to support people to speak up safely at work
'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.
Supporting teams to recover from a critical incident
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.
The views and opinions expressed at these workshops are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organisations they represent, or the views and opinions of Social Care Wales.