Emma Winter, Retention and Wellbeing Lead, talks to Kathryn Guest, Directorate Lead Dietitian for ALD, about finding a healthier you. 

Joining Emma Winter are Felicity Devereux and Lydia Hardy from the Period Positive Group.

Learn about their journey to open up the conversation about periods and associated conditions in the workplace. 

Movement month is launched in April to promote physical activity among employees, addressing challenges in clinical settings.

Micro exercises like walking meetings are encouraged to enhance motivation and confidence. Positive feedback from a previous initiative leads to a virtual walking challenge.

April is also recognised as stress awareness month, promoting physical activity as a stress relief technique, alongside various wellbeing activities like Zumba classes.

Tune in to our fourth and final episode of 2024 of our 'Your Wellbeing Matters Podcast' hosted by Emma Winter, Retention and Wellbeing Lead joined by Vimi Bashir, carer and volunteer with Oxleas. 

We will be talking about our seasonal campaign to help feed both your festive spirit and your wellbeing. We’re discussing trying good deeds and the 12 daily acts of kindness that will help you to discover the joys of helping others and how acts of kindness and good deeds can also bring wellbeing benefits for you.

We will also be discussing how to practice self-care over the festive period and highlighting resources to reach out and explore if individuals find the festive period challenging. 

Tune in to our third episode of our ‘Your Wellbeing Matters podcast’ where Emma Winter, Retention and Wellbeing Lead, is joined by Juliana Frederick-James, Head of Equality and Human Rights.

They are discussing the launch of our new Trust Strategy: Taking it to the next stage and how we plan to put this into action, as well as focussing on the ‘Best Place to Work’ priority and sharing what work areas we will be building on to ensure we deliver this across Oxleas.

In our second Your Wellbeing Matters podcast, hosted by Health and Wellbeing Champions Emma Winter and Clare Denny, we discuss useful tips for prioritising your wellbeing over the summer period.

We will be talking about the benefits of healthy eating, summer health such as hydration, skin protection and hay fever symptoms, how to tackle financial challenges and how to cope with summer depression symptoms.

We also touch on family wellbeing and how to ensure our beloved pets are safe and healthy in the warmer months.

Welcome to our first episode featuring sport and fitness lead Mark Baker, and to start us off before you listen in, we thought we’d introduce Mark to those who don’t know him.

Mark leads our Sports and Fitness Team, who offer tailored gym programmes, fitness classes such as circuit training and monthly fitness challenges to our service users.

He is passionate about living a fit and healthy lifestyle and helping others to do so. He has played a major part in the development of our new staff gym at Queen Mary’s Hospital and is regularly involved in advice and guidance for colleagues to improve their health and wellbeing.

As part of the first podcast, Mark talks about nutrition – keeping it simple and sustainable and tackling diet myths; about exercise and physical activity, aerobic and resistance training and about how we can achieve good sleep hygiene with sleep hacks for our night workers.

So, take five, grab a cuppa – and join Mark and Health and Wellbeing Champion, Emma Winter for our first wellbeing podcast.