Staff Support
We can only support children and young people if we are feeling contained and supported ourselves.
This short NES module provides the ABCs of taking care of yourself and the active steps we can all take to protect and sustain our wellbeing.
Education Scotland’s ‘Cycle of Wellbeing’ draws together a wide range of national guidance and resources published to support the wellbeing of staff and children and young people. The ‘Cycle’ provides a narrative of how the resources connect and could be used to strategically plan supports and interventions for staff and school communities, based on local evidence.
The Scottish Social Services Council has developed two resources to support staff: Leading in a Crisis and Workforce support and wellbeing. Please bear in mind that these were created during the Covid-19 pandemic but are still wholly relevant.
All staff should be supported in their roles to deliver safe, high-quality, evidence-based, relational approaches while maintaining their own resilience and wellbeing. Clinical supervision, and the use of reflective practice, is used to support staff within the therapeutic professions. Supervision plays a critical role in the development of skills and the safe, effective delivery of psychological interventions. The ability to use supervision is included in the KSF framework. Skills associated with supervision delivery are detailed in a separate framework, available HERE