It’s okay to ask for help

NHS Employers | August 2018 | It’s okay to ask for HELP

NHS Employers have published  a case study from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, which  successfully embedded its health, employee, learning and psychotherapy services (HELP) into its staff wellbeing programme to ensure more members of staff were getting the help they need and to reduce sickness absence.

Since BSUH implemented HELP, the service supports around 500 members of staff
every year with individual psychotherapy and counselling.
• 18 workshops and 28 incident debriefs have taken place each year.
• 44 staff members have benefited from specialist EMDR trauma therapy.
• By offering the services internally the trust is reaching more people for the
same cost.
• 98 per cent of staff said the sessions helped them to stay in work, or return to work sooner from sick leave. HELP also runs a placement programme for honorary psychotherapists from Brighton, Sussex and London universities.

This new approach to counselling and psychotherapy services for staff included sessions on trauma as well as  stress management workshops. Since its implementation the service has supported 500 members of staff, with 98 per cent of those who attended saying the service has meant they did not need to take time off work.  (Source: NHS Employers).

Read the full case study at NHS Employers