Identify appropriate Mental health and prevention and support wellbeing is a workplace mechanisms. priority Educate the child protection workforce about the department’s health and safety accountability framework. Ensure all serious incidents and are monitored, reported and investigated within the of the just culture framework. Staff and leader training will promote civility in all work relationships and a sense of fairness that all staff will be empowered to promote. Increase capability of leaders to develop more engaging and supportive team environments through supporting and training leaders to focus on the levers’ that ‘team increase team engagement and support. Promote and encourage self-reporting and general incident reporting, and reward instances this occurs. Conduct six-monthly wellbeing check-in ‘team meetings’ to help promote a out ‘looking for one another’ culture, collegiality and team connectedness through sharing challenges, problem-solving strategies and personal strategies staying on ‘for top of your game’. Introduce initiatives to reduce mental health stigma and encourage early help-seeking including on-site EAP service sessions with the
Identify appropriate prevention and support mechanisms. Educate the child protection workforce about the department’s health and safety accountability framework. Ensure all serious incidents and are monitored, reported and investigated within the of the just culture framework. Staff and leader training will promote civility in all work relationships and a sense of fairness that all staff will be empowered to promote. Increase capability of leaders to develop more engaging and supportive team environments through supporting and training leaders to focus on the ‘team levers’ that increase team engagement and support. Promote and encourage self-reporting and general incident reporting, and reward instances this occurs. Conduct six-monthly ‘team wellbeing check-in meetings’ to help promote a ‘looking out for one another’ culture, collegiality and team connectedness through sharing challenges, problem-solving strategies and personal strategies ‘for staying on top of your game’. Introduce initiatives to reduce mental health stigma and encourage early help-seeking including on-site EAP service sessions with the Mental health and wellbeing is a workplace priority
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