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Frequently asked questions
The purpose of the champion role is to help support the Institute of Wellbeing (IOW) through raising awareness of wellbeing activities and positive mental health support services in your local area. Also to promote Chat, Play and Read following the IOWs Wellbeing Champions Policy.
Examples of activities include:
- Promoting particular Wellbeing activites & Chat, Play and Read campaign material for displays (eg, posters, flyers etc)
- Emailing and updating colleagues and parents on what IOW products are available
- Handing out leaflets
- Championing and promoting wellbeing messages and events
- Signposting colleagues and parents to relevant local services
- Providing information to colleagues and parents
- Collaborative working with other Wellbeing Champions across the network
- Providing activity information to the Wellbeing Ambassador via a wellbeing survey on a termly basis.
The purpose of the champion role is to help support the Institute of Wellbeing (IOW) through raising awareness of wellbeing activities and positive mental health support services in your local area. Also to promote Chat, Play and Read following the IOWs Wellbeing Champions Policy.
Examples of activities include:
- Promoting particular Wellbeing activites & Chat, Play and Read campaign material for displays (eg, posters, flyers etc)
- Emailing and updating colleagues and parents on what IOW products are available
- Handing out leaflets
- Championing and promoting wellbeing messages and events
- Signposting colleagues and parents to relevant local services
- Providing information to colleagues and parents
- Collaborative working with other Wellbeing Champions across the network
- Providing activity information to the Wellbeing Ambassador via a wellbeing survey on a termly basis.
As long as you like or feel able to. There is no time limit on how long you can be a champion for though we would ask you to commit for at least a year. We’ll check each year that you want to continue.
We recognise that this will be in addition to your current role and we do not want being a wellbeing champion to impact negatively on you.
We don’t require you to do set hours however as much as you are able to do is sufficient unless we have a specific activity/event that requires this time.
We recognise that this is a new initiative and want to provide development opportunities for any one wanting to be a Wellbeing Champion.
We recognise that this will be in addition to your current role and we do not want being a Wellbeing Champion to impact negatively on you.
We don’t require you to do set hours however as much as you are able to do is sufficient unless we have a specific activity/event that requires this time. To support you we have put together a free online wellbeing champion training course and many different articles and resources that you can share.
Our course is accessible across capable mobile, tablet and desktop computers.
