Building resilience and resistance for employees and volunteers

Project Background and Description
The Hospice is a well-known and award-winning organisation which takes its duty of care for its clients, patients and staff seriously.
The organization sought to implement regular workshops that seek to empower their employees and volunteers in dealing, handling and managing stress.
The work needed to be framed in the ethical framework with reference to HCPC and BACP standards of proficiency.
Project Scope and Elements
Analysing existent resilience processes
Creation of workshops (various levels)
Implementation
Organisation fitting feedback process
Process
Analysis
Data gathering
- Present communication between consultants, registrars and patients:
- Inpatient, outpatient across specialities
- Understanding the needs of the communication process through the eyes of the clinical community and the patients
- Understanding what process of change would be accepted within the clinical community and the organisation
- Dedicated links between organisations and von Lerse
Method
- Interviews
- Focus groups
- Visiting existing intervention groups
- Research of existing programs and longitudinal outcome data
Linking Process with People
- Feedback and debriefing: members check
Implementation
Creating stress resilience workshops
- Training material, including levels
- Timelines and areas of training
- Implementing training
Triangular feedback
Process
Triangular feedback process: participants – hospice – von Lerse