Health and Wellbeing News

Today’s webinar will be looking at managing stress as the lockdown eases.

What stresses can the easing of lockdown cause? What are the symptoms?

Care First will look at these important questions and provide useful tips on managing the stress including:

• Talking to someone
• Focusing on the things you can control
• Finding a creative outlet
• Giving yourself some space, and more.

Care First also include a lot of useful links.

‘Managing Stress As Lockdown Eases’ is being delivered live today at 12pm. Please use the following link to register for this session:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7442001980715929102

If you are unable to join the webinar live, a recording of the session can be accessed using the same link above after the webinar has taken place.

Alternatively you can read the related article by clicking here.

Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is provided by Care First.

They offer services to employees including:

• Counselling Support
• Information Specialists
• Management Support
• Care First Lifestyle
• Care First Zest

If you wish to access the full services provided to staff by Care First or want to know more you will need to log in using the following details:

User Name: uokent      Password: university

You can join their weekly webinar held almost every Monday to learn more about the support they provide. You can do so using this link:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/894179339868188684

You will asked to register with your name and email address.

Alternatively, you can view the contents of the webinar here.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of people a lot of challenges and big changes in day to day life. This can have a big impact on our wellbeing.

To promote positive wellbeing, Care first provide all staff members access to our Lifestyle website – a comprehensive hub of wellbeing resources including articles, webinar content and interactive tools to help you take control of your own wellbeing.

To find out more ‘Making Positive Changes To Your Wellbeing Post-Lockdown’ is being delivered live today (2nd Sept) at 12pm, please use the below link to register for this session –

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7267761273551089167

If you are unable to join the webinar live, a recording of the session can be accessed using the same link above after the webinar has taken place.

Alternatively you can read the related article by clicking here.

Today’s webinar will be looking at where we are now.

How are we coping? Have we survived or thrived? Or have we struggled and continue to struggle?

The webinar discusses the importance of self-care and resilience as well as how Care First can help and the support they offer.

‘Where are we now?’ is being delivered live today (28th Aug) at 12.30pm, please use the below link to register for this session –

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3160747793740253967

If you are unable to join the webinar live, a recording of the session can be accessed using the same link above after the webinar has taken place.

Alternatively you can read the related article by clicking here.

Care First (our Employee Assistance Programme) have been running weekly webinars on various topics related to Covid-19 and lockdown.

The list of this week’s webinars can be found at Care First Weekly Covid-19 Calendar Week 24

If you cannot watch the webinars live you can use the same links to watch them at a later date.

To register to watch the webinars you will need your name and email address.

If you wish to access the full Care First Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) You will need to use the following details to log in:

User Name: uokent      Password: university

For more information about our Employee Assistant Programme (EAP) please click here.

To access all previous Care First webinar articles please click here.

Today’s webinar will be looking at post lockdown anxiety.

It covers what the mental health challenges are post lockdown and what you can do to address them, describing fear and anxiety, some top tips on how to cope with your fears and anxiety, readjustment of another ‘new normal’ and some useful links for further reading.

‘Post-lockdown Anxiety’  is being delivered live today (27th Aug) at 12pm. Please use the below link to register for this webinar:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1023492902259501838

If you are unable to join the webinar live, a recording of the session can be accessed using the same link above after the webinar has taken place.

Alternatively you can read the full article by clicking here.

Today’s Care First Webinar is focussed on promoting the Care First Services (EAP) effectively.

The discussion will explain what is an EAP (Employee Assistance Program), what the benefits are of having an EAP, some common misconceptions about the Care First EAP and lots of tips to help promote the services provided as effectively as possible.

‘How to promote the Care first service effectively’ will be delivered live today at 12pm and can be accessed using the link below:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/809998530599884559

If you are unable to join the webinar live, a recording of the session can be accessed using the same link above after the webinar has taken place.

Alternatively you can read the related article by clicking here.