Preventative Care Consultancy
Our Role
We work alongside cultural organisations to review and embed preventative care and safeguarding strategies into your working culture. By placing people and creativity at the heart of what we do, we focus on improving the conditions, health and wellbeing of all staff and freelancers in your organisation.
From a company’s day-to-day running to its rehearsal and performance periods, we help create joyful and safe environments that will reduce stress and mental ill-health and ensure everyone can work, play and stay well.
How we do it
Led by our founder Lauren, we have developed the pioneering industry role of a Preventative Care Consultant.
We support senior managers and producers in understanding the moral, legal and financial responsibility to develop and maintain an excellent duty of care. We provide solutions, signposting and long-term strategies, including company-wide Preventative Care Training and tailored support based on audit findings and reviews.
Working with us will help minimise the negative impacts of illness on people and organisations and create a supportive, nurturing and positive workplace for all.
Why we do it
At PlayWell, we see preventative care as more than just a set of policies. It is a strategic imperative for a positive working culture. Preventative care may produce the most significant impact on people’s health and wellbeing compared to responsive measures. It can make people feel safe, respected and listened to. It builds cultures for people to thrive in, which means it plays a vital role in helping us be creative, experimental, and bold. This approach also acknowledges that care is a collective responsibility.
With the support from the Arts Council England and The Mayor’s Office at the Greater London Authority, we carried out a research project into the need for preventative care and support in the Creative Industries to understand what is currently available.
Our research highlights that most people feel that stressful working conditions – including rushed timelines, low and late pay, precarious contracts, and systemic abuses of power – negatively impact their mental health. And though the creative industries as a whole already recognise the problems, many organisations continue to perpetuate these working conditions, fail to provide support for their workers, or even acknowledge the need.
How can we bridge this gap between what we know as individuals and how we act as a community?
Read more in our report below:
Clients include
“Prevention in mental health aims to reduce the incidence, prevalence, and recurrence of mental health disorders and their associated disability. Preventive interventions are based on modifying risk exposure and strengthening the coping mechanisms of the individual.”
Mental Health Foundation: Prevention Review Paper
” By embedding preventative mental health care in workplace mental health models, employers have a significant opportunity to change the conversation.”
Forbes: Embedding Preventative Mental Health Care In The Workplace
“Preventative mental health care must be more than a set of initiatives; it must be considered as part of the overall organizational strategy. This includes a holistic approach to workforce wellbeing which begins with the management team and encompasses emotional, physical, social and financial wellbeing. The fact is, there is no health without mental health.”
Gareth Staglin: One Mind at Work
If you’re interested in how our Preventative Care Consultancy can help to support your organisation
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