Staff Wellbeing and Culture Award

Staff Wellbeing
Staff Wellbeing and Culture Award
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Decades of evidence confirm that a workforce that feels valued and has a degree of control over its future is healthier, more engaged, and more productive. High levels of staff engagement directly contribute to improved patient outcomes, making staff wellbeing an essential pillar of NHS effectiveness.

Amid ongoing workforce challenges and evolving policy priorities, NHS organisations must take proactive steps to foster staff engagement, inclusion, and wellbeing. Creating a positive working environment and embedding a culture of openness and support are essential to staff retention and, ultimately, patient care. This award will recognise NHS organisations that have successfully implemented initiatives to improve retention, career development, and positive working environments.

Judges are looking for examples of positive working culture with clear channels of discussion and recourse; an accepting and open environment with consideration to protect characteristics and initiatives driving representation; projects aimed at bringing staff into the decision making process and improving the lives of patients as a result.

Eligibility

This award is open to all public sector NHS organisations which can demonstrate high levels of staff engagement and can demonstrate impact with wellbeing. 

Ambition

The challenge and context within which your project, person or organisation is set alongside your goals and targets whether quantitative or qualitative, and how this aligns with national priorities.

  • Describe the vision for staff engagement and wellbeing at the organisation, and how that vision translates into initiatives aimed at delivering a better working environment
  • Describe strategies employed to drive better representation, inclusion and participation in decision-making, and outline the focus on culture, safety, learning and sharing information
  • What made this approach new or distinct from existing practice, and what goals and targets were set?

Collaboration

The stakeholders' involvement in co-designing and delivering the project. How have patients, staff at all levels, communities and other parties worked together to realise the outcomes?

  • How have staff at all levels been involved in shaping the initiatives, and how has the organisation worked with groups representing protected characteristics to achieve greater inclusion?
  • How has the organisation worked with third-party bodies or wider partners to achieve results, and where relevant how have patients been involved in the design of staff engagement initiatives?
  • Describe the open culture that has been created, in which all staff feel comfortable raising concerns and confident they will receive an effective response

Impact

The measurable benefits delivered to patients, staff, your organisation or the wider system. Provide data and evidence showing improvements to outcomes, quality, access, equity or efficiency.

  • How has staff engagement and wellbeing improved, and has this been in line with the vision? Provide both qualitative evidence in the form of testimonials and satisfaction improvements, and quantitative evidence of engagement improvements at all levels
  • Is there evidence that improved staff engagement has led to improved patient care, experience, outcomes or value for money?
  • Provide examples where value has been realised as a direct result of work done with staff

Scale

How your work has been shared, adopted or replicated beyond your immediate team or organisation. This includes dissemination through publications, presentations, toolkits, partnerships or inspiring similar initiatives elsewhere.

  • How have initiatives embedded and spread to other departments, settings or organisations, or what evidence is there that the work is replicable and scalable?
  • What efforts are being made to share learning across the wider NHS?
  • What evidence is there that this approach could deliver positive outcomes elsewhere?

Sustainability

The potential for the project/work to continue and create lasting impact. Evidence of how it can be sustained or built upon.

  • How are the improvements in culture and wellbeing being embedded into the way the organisation works, and what resource is in place to sustain them?
  • How does this initiative contribute to long-term staff retention, resilience and a sustainable working environment?
  • What evidence is there that this work can be built upon or adapted by other teams or organisations?

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