05.13.2025 PCS
From mastering workplace wellbeing to navigating conflict with confidence, discover the most impactful training options to help your staff thrive.
For care staff, coping with stress in the workplace is a significant concern that has long been an issue within the sector, and often occurs due to issues like high workloads, limited support or compensation or poor work-life balance. That’s why, for Stress Awareness Month, we’re looking at some of the training courses available that can be most helpful with stress for care staff.
Stress is a prevailing issue within social care. In fact, in a recent report, it was said that social care and healthcare workers are among the most stressed employees in the UK.
Overall, social care was named as the second most stressful industry to work in, and accounted for an average of 13.1 days per month in workers feel stressed, and nearly 1 in six people working in social care feel stressed every day.
What are the impacts of stress for care staff?
There are many consequences for increased stress among care staff, but some major ones include:
- Physical and emotional exhaustion
- Decreased job satisfaction and motivation
- Reduced productivity
- Emotional distress or distance
- Mental health-related time off
- As a result, a higher workload for other care staff
What are the biggest impacts for the care home?
- Impact on community wellbeing
- High turnover rate and staff shortages
- Reputation harm through decreased service quality
- Poor workplace culture
- Overall risk on resident wellbeing
How can you face the challenges of stress for care staff?
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Stress can negatively impact the function of a team of care staff, which ultimately hinders how they can support each other as well as the people they care for. Therefore, it’s important to learn how to recognise the signs and sources of stress and anxiety, and how to find ways to help.
Effective modern care managers know how to support their staff and recognise the benefits of a more harmonious, positive workplace culture, so we’ve listed some of our useful training courses that you and your team might find helpful in identifying the behaviours and causes of stress, and how to help staff work through them.
Your Wellbeing at Work
This course gives a broad overview of factors that help to improve wellbeing in the workplace. It also assists people to watch for the signs of stress by helping to identify the causes.
Click here for more information on the Wellbeing at Work course.
Promoting Wellbeing at Work
This course provides a deep dive into the many positive actions you can take you improve wellbeing at work. This course would be useful for managers as well as staff.
Click here for more information on the Promoting Wellbeing at Work course.
Mental Health First Aid
This course aims to build greater awareness of mental health issues and offers knowledge on how to respond positively if you’re concerned about someone.
Click here for more information on the Mental Health First Aid course.
Mental Health Matters
Building on the foundations of the previous course, this one goes further and also examines some of the key legislation relating to mental health.
Click here for more information on the Mental Health Matters course.
Anxiety
Anxiety is often a part of life, but up to a point. Knowing how to identify signs of anxiety that go beyond normal and how to help are essential skills of managers in a modern care home setting.
Click here for more information on the Anxiety course.
Depression
Like anxiety, depression is common mental health condition, and by making use of this course, you can discover how to spot the signs and how to intervene sensitively and effectively.
Click here for more information on the Depression course.
Conflict Management
This course is about cultivating a workplace where issues and disagreements are dealt with appropriately and respectfully to ensure that they don’t escalate into something worse.
Click here for more information on the Conflict Management course.
Bullying
Bullying can affect anyone of any age, and it can happen online or in the workplace. This course helps to spot the signs that someone is being bullied and how to provide the right support and assistance.
Click here for more information on the Bullying course.
Coping With Aggression in the Workplace
This course will help you to deal effectively with aggressive behaviour and teach you the ways to keep people safe, which is fundamental in maintaining and improving good mental health.
Click here for more information on the Coping With Aggression in the Workplace course.
Freedom to Speak Up
You can’t have a workplace that maintains good levels of mental health, where stress is kept to a minimum and where there is a positive workplace culture, without the staff feeling like they can voice any concerns they have. In fact, without that, achieving the outcomes outlined in any of these courses would be difficult.
Click here for more information on the Freedom to Speak Up course.
This is just a small selection of the many critically important training courses that can be found with our learning and development solutions, which can offer knowledge and skills for every aspect of care provision. Click here to book a consultation and find out more.
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