Workplace - Services
Occubeing provides health and well-being support and services to workplaces.
Occupational Therapists are experts in understanding how poor health and disability can interfere with engagement in all activities of life, including employment.
Using our assessment skills, we can analyse the barriers to working. We then implement or advise interventions and strategies to best support the staff member to overcome their health and well-being challenges in the workplace.
Health and Well-being Mentoring
Managing health conditions and well-being in the workplace can often not be as simple as putting some support measures in place and waiting for everything to get better. Sometimes, a longer term and more gradual approach is what's needed, with an opportunity to reflect, review, nurture and develop the employee's health and well-being needs.
Occubeings health and Well-Being mentoring offers a safe and confidential space where we can focus and address health and well-being challenges that are interfering with not just your workload, but how you are coping overall. Using a combination of Occupational Therapy and coaching skills, the sessions will be guided by the individual’s unique needs. On the first session, we will set out a mentoring contract, which will highlight any goals to work towards, the main topics to be covered, and interventions to be tried. The conditions where the Health and Well-being coaching may be useful include.
(this list is not exhaustive)
- Long term chronic health conditions
- Injury/trauma
- Long Covid
- Stress and anxiety
- Depression
- Chronic pain
- Chronic fatigue
- Recovering from illness/surgery
- Autoimmune conditions
- Undergoing treatment for cancer.
The frequency of sessions can vary and be flexible dependent on need and preference of the individual and company.
THE WHOP
The Wellness Health and Occupation Plan
The wellness and Health Occupational plan combines a biopsychosocial model with an Occupational Therapy approach. To support absence prevention, staff retention, return to work and the management of health conditions in the workplace.
What does this mean?
When trying to understand how and why health, well-being and disability can affect someone’s role in the workplace, it is important to have a holistic understanding of all the factors involved, whether this is.
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Values and motivations
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Personality and behaviours
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The working environment
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Skill sets
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Roles and responsibilities
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Social and relationships
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Physical and psychological symptoms
An Occupational Therapy approach is based on an understanding that barriers to well-being are not often isolated to one specific need, and to fully support an individual and provide a personalised health and well-being plan it requires an in-depth analysis of the person, environment, and occupational factors.
Who is the WHOP plan for?
The WHOP plan is to support individuals who are presenting with health and well-being challenges in the workplace, the plan is bespoke to support their individual situation.
Examples of when a WHOP plan might be used include.
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Return to work plans
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Absence prevention
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To facilitate and guide health and well-being management in the workplace
Who may benefit from a WHOP plan?
The need for health and well-being support in the workplace is vast, and there are many different scenario’s where individuals may find themselves struggling with the impact of poor well-being, health, and disability in the workplace. These are some examples of conditions where the WHOP plan may be appropriate.
- Long term chronic health conditions
- Injury/trauma
- Long Covid
- Stress and anxiety
- Depression
- Chronic pain
- Chronic fatigue
- Recovering from illness/surgery
- Autoimmune conditions
- Undergoing treatment for cancer.
How is this carried out?
The WHOP plan consists of completing some self-directed questions, which helps guide the direction of the assessment. Following this an assessment will be arranged that typically takes about two hours. This includes.
- Analysis of job demands and responsibilities.
- Analysis of skill set, motivations, and values.
- Assessment of working environment
- Assessment of health and well-being issues impacting working role.
Once this has been completed, A scale will be used to identity the severity of these barriers. And will indicate whether the health and well-being issues requires a light touch monitoring, close monitoring, or urgent attention.
It will provide recommendations on how to carry out the support. Additionally suggestions will be made, such as;
- Reasonable adjustments
- Strategies to improve well-being in the workplace
- Strategies to manage health and physical disabilities in the workplace
- If required, advice around altering workplace responsibilities
- Advice regarding return-to-work plans.
Occasionally, there may be suggestions for follow up assessment or long term health and well-being mentoring.
If it is believed the client’s needs are complex, and that specialist services need to be involved such as case management, ergonomic assessment, complex adaptations, and physiotherapy we will make recommendations for suitable services and companies who provide this.
Training and workshops
Disability and illness effects such a large population of people, and the impact on workforces can be significant. People spend so much time at work, that naturally, health and work often overlap.
Education is important when it comes to supporting your staff and peers with managing their health alongside work. Before you look at how to help someone, first you must understand why they need the help.
You don’t need to be a trained healthcare professional to broaden your knowledge on how health and disability impacts a working role, and you don’t have to be a specialist to have insight into what steps can be taken to support people going through complex health problems while in employment.
The topics covered include
- Chronic pain and fatigue in the workplace
- Neurodiversity in the workplace
- Neurological conditions in the workplace
- Autoimmune and chronic conditions in the workplace
- Mental health in the workplace
- Physical disabilities in the workplace
Each topic covers the same structure
-What are the signs and symptoms?
-How can they present in the workplace?
-How can we talk about these difficulties and try to understand them?
-How can you offer support?
-What strategies and adjustments can you put into place?
The delivery of these sessions is flexible. And can both focus on the individual topics in depth, or lightly touch on all the subjects depending on the need of the employees.
They can be delivered in group settings, or 1-1 to HR staff, managers, and well-being leads who are wanting to better understand the health and well-being needs of their fellow employee’s.
1-1 Support
Personalised training can be offered to support HR, managers, well-being leads and employers with any specific challenges they are having with the management of health and well-being in their workplace.
Bespoke training
Occubeing can offer bespoke training and mentoring services to cover any unique needs your company may have relating to the management of health and well-being.