Thrive at Work
We want to congratulate Park Hill Thorns Federation who have achieved their Bronze level Thrive at work award this week!
Rebecca Harrison, School Business Manager, said: At Park Hill Junior School and Thorns Community Infant School, we want to make sure we are supporting all of our staff with their well-being. We've done this through the Employee Assistance Programme offered through the HR service and we've achieved the Fair Workload Charter. When we saw the Thrive Programme offered further support for staff and recognition for the school, we felt that this would be something we would be interested in.
The Thrive Programme has helped bring the schools together by offering workplace challenges such as "the million step challenge" in October, arranging for Flu jabs for the whole Federation, Dry January and signposting staff to different organisations to support people's well-being such as walking clubs, fitness groups and financial support.
Throughout the process, we had a lot of support and encouragement from the Thrive team. We've met regularly to talk through the ideas, how to complete the processes and get hints and tips on how to achieve certain actions.
If you are considering working towards the Thrive accreditation, I would have to say that you need time and commitment. I'm very fortunate that the role I have within the school means that I can attend some of the training during the school hours which other staff would not have been able to. These meetings have all taken place online, so no travelling is required, but time is needed.
The award has helped to highlight policies that the Local Authority shares with the school such as staff absence including the return to work interviews, equality and diversity and wellbeing.
We've recently had Ofsted visit the two schools and were able to demonstrate the support that we are offering all of our staff through our Wellbeing board and our governor minutes.”
To find out what support is available and how you can get started please contact Jenny Duggan, Thrive at work Lead for Coventry & Warwickshire at jenny.duggan@coventry.gov.uk. Or check out the website www.wmca.org.uk/thriveatwork