Specialist Sector Modules
Wellbeing for Health and Care Professionals
A short course on protecting your own wellbeing, managing stress and preventing burnout in health and care work.
- Duration
- 3 guided hours
- Structure
- 5 modules · 16 lessons
- Accreditation
- CPD Certification Service
About this course
This short course is written for the practitioner rather than the service user. It covers occupational stress and burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, recovery and rest, boundaries and workload, peer support and supervision, and how to raise concerns about unsafe workloads under the employer duty of care.
What you will be able to do
- Recognise the signs of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue in yourself and colleagues
- Use practical recovery, boundary and workload strategies
- Access supervision, peer support and occupational health appropriately
- Describe employer duty of care and how to raise wellbeing concerns