Restoring and Renewing Teams

To provide the best possible care for patients and rise to the challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many NHS staff have been working differently, often under extreme pressure, in unfamiliar roles, from home, or in positions they haven’t practised for some time. This has resulted in some staff teams being temporarily dispersed or new teams being formed.

As the immunisation programme gathers pace and infection reduces, staff will start to return to their roles. Managers will be tasked with restoring and renewing their teams. It will be an opportunity to learn from staff’s Covid experience, deploy new skills and provide support to enable their team to work successfully together.

To help managers, supervisors and team leaders make the most of this opportunity, BPACHS has collaborated with Central & North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust and Brunel University’s Digital Media and Technology department to produce a short training video, which provides six clear steps on how managers can start to restore and renew their teams.

In launching the video, Dr Ryan Kemp, Director of Therapies at CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, said, “We produced this film to help our managers bring their teams together at this juncture in the pandemic. It offers them a chance to take stock, reflect and plan a way forward. Never has this been more critical for the NHS”.

In thanking Dr Ryan Kemp and Brunel’s Media Productions Officer, Neil Graveney, the Interim Director of BPACHS, James Ross, said, “This is an important step on the road back to normality. Without Ryan and Neil’s hard work and speed in creating this video, we may have missed the opportunity to help the NHS in its recovery.”

You can watch our short 7 minute film ‘Renew and Restore’ now, on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/LTuHVYt0q9c.