Staff Wellbeing Knowledge Hub

Books

The Library has a growing collection of wellbeing books. Topics include: managing stress; musculoskeletal problems e.g. bad backs; anxiety; fears and phobias; stopping smoking; and sleep problems. We also have a collection of personal health stories written by people living with different conditions.

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Organisations

• ACAS Health and Wellbing in the workplace
• HR Direct: My Health and Wellbeing (for trust staff)
• ​​Citizens Advice
• Doctors' Support Network
• Mind  ::  Mental health at work resources
• ​NHS Employers: Health & Wellbeing
• Time to change

Uplifting resources

Health Education England and the Reading Agency have crowd-sourced a list of uplifting, digital resources for NHS staff. The choices were recommended by your colleagues in the NHS, and are ideal for boosting your mood. You can use at your leisure via any computer or mobile device.​

Access resources

​Websites

• Self-help guides on a variety of topics, including: Abuse; Alcohol and You; Anxiety; Bereavement; Controlling Anger; Depression and Low Mood; Domestic Violence; Eating Disorders; Food for Thought; Health Anxiety; Hearing Voices; Obsessions and Compulsions; Panic; Post-Traumatic Stress; Postnatal Depression; Self-Harm; Shyness and Social Anxiety; Sleeping Problems; and Stress.

• Be mindful​
• Change for life
• CIPD employment law and wellbeing
• Drink Aware
• East Cheshire NHS Trust Physiotherapy Service ​Self-help advice, physiotherapy exercise videos and links to local information
• ​​Living life to the full - free online courses on low mood and stress
• Maintaining a mindful life - free online course
• Mindfulness for wellbeing and peak performance - free online course
• NHS: Live Well
• NHS Health at Work Network
• NHS One You
• NHS Smokefree
• ​Wellbeing Information
• Yoga with Adriene

Click to access. Login with your NHS Athens account.

Health & Wellbeing at Home

Emergency & wellbeing resources - collated by Cheshire East Council

Apps

• ​Change4Life: Be food smart
• My fitness pal
• NHS: How are YOU?
• Public Health England One You apps, including activity and alcohol trackers, smoking cessation and a healthy meal planner.
• ​WebMD​

​Suicide & self-harm prevention

• Zero Suicide Alliance
• Suicide prevention resources (NHS Employers)
• Reducing the risk of suicide: a toolkit for employers (Public Health England)
• Supporting the mental health of NHS staff: the role of leaders, managers and champions: toolkit
• Supporting the mental health of NHS staff: The role of NHS leaders in reducing mental health stigma and creating mentally healthy cultures (BMA and Mind)
• Suicide prevention e-learning (eLfH)

Support for staff with addictions

• NHS stop smoking services help you quit - NHS
• Stop smoking treatments - NHS
• Alcohol support - NHS
• Drinkaware
• Better Health - NHS
• Drug addiction: getting help - NHS
• Contact Frank Directly for confidential advice
• Honest information about drugs - FRANK
• Families Anonymous - support for families impacted by substance abuse
• Gambling support - GamCare​