What will it take to reverse the trend of burnout?
The charity’s Chief Executive, Danielle Hunt, and Wellbeing Development Manager, Melissa Cochrane, also delivered a session on ‘Wellbeing in Pharmacy – What will it take to reverse the trend of burnout?’. This session explored the wellbeing crisis in pharmacy and how, as a sector, we can address this wellbeing crisis – including what needs to be done to remove the stigma around mental health and improve workplace culture.
The Congress provided a great opportunity for the team at Pharmacist Support to share how we’ve developed and expanded our support in response to the trauma and burnout now faced as a result the pandemic. We presented details on our new counselling service that we launched last year. This service provides individuals who are suffering from anxiety, depression, a change in family circumstances that causes distress, bereavement, and other psychological issues with access to up to 12 counselling sessions.
Find out more about counselling here
Free mental health and wellbeing training
Other developments included a new wellbeing workshop now available on our Wellbeing Learning Platform. The ‘Live the Life You Want to Lead’ workshop is for individuals who feel they’d like to make a change in their lives but aren’t sure where to begin. It forms part of the free wellbeing and mental health training on the platform, with other modules including; The Science behind Wellbeing, Stress Management and Building Resilience, Time Management, Get Mentally Prepared for the Assessment and Introduction to Assertiveness. The platform is for individual wellbeing learning and training and is available to pharmacists, trainees and students.
Sign up to the Wellbeing Learning Platform for free here
CPC nominated charity
As announced earlier in the year, Pharmacist Support was chosen to be the Clinical Pharmacy Congress’ nominated charity at their event in May. This continued partnership forms part of many partnerships we have with organisations across the sector who are keen to showcase their commitment to improving wellbeing amongst our pharmacy family.
Another focus of this partnership between the Clinical Pharmacy Congress and Pharmacist Support was to help raise vital funds to support the charities activities. Through this partnership £1 from every ticket sold was donated to Pharmacist Support, raising £320 for this highly valued cause.
“We are very grateful to the team at the CPC for selecting us as their charity partner” commented Danielle Hunt. “By doing so, they are supporting the mental health and wellbeing of those in our pharmacy family. Donations such as these enable us to develop new resources in response to need and to continue to provide our free and confidential support to those who find themselves in difficulty.”
Learn more about our partnership with the CPC