Peer Support

The Framework of Peer Support

We recognise the impact of working in intensive care, on the welfare and mental health of staff and the value of supporting staff of intensive care units to mitigate these impacts. Please refer to our Strategic Framework for Peer Support which outlines the core principles and values for supporting people affected by incidents and adversity at work, the nature of stressors experienced at work, the strategic intent of supporting intensive care staff within which peer support sits, and then outlines the Peer Support Framework in its principles, values and structure for safe delivery. We thank Professor Richard Williams and Verity Kemp for their help in developing this framework. 

You can find this framework for download below, and three important supplementary documents available to the right of the page. 
 

Our training

We provide an evidence-based training and framework for supporting all members of staff who work in intensive care. 

We have a one day online training session which a team from your unit can attend to become Peer Supporters. We suggest that you engage as a unit to offer peer support, and have a minimum of 5 peer supporters per unit trained. Please refer to 'annex 2' for more details. 

If our dates don’t work for you, please contact [email protected] for alternatives.  

Training dates

Friday 24 April - Bookings open
Friday 9 October - Bookings open soon
 

Training costs

Regular registration - £160