A new programme manager has been appointed to help develop a Lanarkshire-wide health and wellbeing strategy to help improve the working lives of health and social care staff.
Lesley Mackay will work alongside the staff health and wellbeing strategy group, to engage with staff and ask their opinions on how the organisation can help them stay well and live their best lives while working.
Prior to her current role, Lesley was part of the Healthy Working Lives team, promoting services and support pathways to local business for them to further endorse.
Working with businesses, Lesley helped to improve the health, safety and wellbeing outcomes for their workforce with an emphasis on the inequalities agenda within the workplace environment.
Lesley Mackay, programme manager, said: “As programme manager, I will be supporting the development and implementation of the Staff Health and Wellbeing Strategy. I will also be managing the delivery of the associated action plan.
“Staff engagement will be a key element in the success of the strategy. Our aim is to work together with staff at all levels and in all disciplines to ensure staff feel valued and supported in their roles as individuals, team players, managers and as colleagues within the organisation.”
Gillian Archibald, Healthy Working Lives and EASY Manager, said: “I am delighted to have Lesley in this important role.
“Across health and social care, we have worked through the toughest time of our lives together. The pandemic isn’t over, nor is the impact it’s having on our staff.
“Our aim is for NHS Lanarkshire and the partnerships to be among the best workplaces in the local area and across Scotland.”
To develop the strategy, engagement teams will be asking staff what is important to your wellbeing at work.
Staff should head to https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/your-health-matters/ for updates on support services
If you would like to submit any comments or opinions on what matters to your health and wellbeing at work, in advance of the engagement exercise, please email staffcare@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
