In our work around burnout, we’ve heard about the strategies some partnerships are investing in to positively impact practitioner wellbeing and connection to their work. Here are three things partnerships can do to promote the wellbeing and resilience of their people:
- Map values because they matter. Mapping the values alignment between partnering organisations and partnering people is really important, as well as having ongoing discussions to build shared values across the partnership.
- Embed processes for connection, reflection and learning. Take time to form meaningful connections across the partnership early in its development. Centre reflection and learning in the ethos of the HJP by setting times and discussions to review together what’s working and what may need to change. These strategies can help with understanding the continued impacts of the COVID pandemic on each partner, but particularly on health practitioners, and can mitigate against the isolation that can be felt when working remotely.
- Build trauma-informed practice. Some legal practitioner participants noted they have a lot to learn from their allied health peers in the practice of being trauma informed. There is often talk about the training and development legal practitioners can provide their health partners in HJP but the training health providers provide lawyers is just as important. Trauma-informed practice is a key area of learning that social workers, counsellors and other allied health practitioners may be able to offer their legal practitioner partners, contributing to the true cross-disciplinary learning and development that can occur in HJP.
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