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As a leader, your key role is always to guide and support your team. This one-page guide from Our NHS People explores what you can do as a leader to ensure your team feels supported during periods of pressure.

Our NHS People has created this website to help healthcare workers to take steps to maintain their physical and mental health, and overall wellbeing. This includes a free wellbeing support helpline, a 24/7 text alternative, and free mindfulness apps.

Long periods of home working might make you feel less productive or affect your mental wellbeing. This guide explores ways to tackle these challenges.

This guide from Our NHS People includes three webinars on the topic of supporting colleagues, designed to help leaders within the NHS understand the best ways to aid their staff through difficult times and avoid some easy mistakes.

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is the ability to understand the emotions you and others feel, and be able to use those feelings in positive ways. This guide can help you and your team develop your EQ skills.

Team resilience is your team’s ability to withstand and overcome periods of extreme stress. This guide from Our NHS People aims to teach you the basics.

The ABC guide is a simple set of ideas for maintaining and enhancing your personal resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal resilience is the way we cope with challenging and difficult situations in order to overcome them. This guide offers advice on improving your resilience and managing uncertainty.

This guide from Our NHS People is designed to help leaders and managers within the NHS to understand the importance of compassion and apply it to their role.

Trauma at work can have lasting consequences. This guide explains the effects of trauma using the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as an example, and discusses what a managed recovery time might look like.

This web page from the NHS is designed to help team leaders working in healthcare to understand the impact of difficult decision-making while under pressure, and offers ways you can help to ease that strain.

Working at home whilst looking after children can be very stressful. This information sheet is aimed at those working from home with school aged children.

It's easy to become overwhelmed if you're a frontline leader during the COVID-19 crisis. This guide can help keep you understand your limits and reduce your anxiety while working.

COVID-19 has brought unexpected financial challenges to many households. If you're worried your employees may be struggling this guide can help.

This guide is designed to help team leaders to run a short session, called a 'Pause Space', which allows staff to take some time to relax, reflect on their work, and show appreciation for their colleagues.

Routines have proven psychological benefits. In times of high stress and high uncertainty, such as the coronavirus pandemic, establishing a degree of stability can be an effective way for managers to protect wellbeing in their teams.

Trauma can overwhelm someone's ability to cope. This guide is designed to help NHS line managers encourage their staff open up about potentially traumatic things they have seen at work.

Sadly, during the coronavirus pandemic, many people have lost family, friends and loved ones. This guide from Our NHS People is designed for line managers who would like to support someone they work with following the death of a colleague, friend or loved one.

As part of Our Frontline, NHS and care staff in England can call Samaritans' dedicated confidential support line free on 0800 069 6222, 7am–11pm every day. Staff anywhere else in the UK can call on 116 123 to speak with a trained listening volunteer.