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Supporting staff individually

As a leader, to ensure that you have a healthy workplace you may want to ensure that your staff members are motivated, feel safe, are encouraged to keep learning; have a focus on health and wellbeing. If you would like to know more about what is available for staff to support their mental health and wellbeing, check out the Supporting Colleagues page and Mind Pillar.

It is good for staff to be clear on their role and its scope, have a reasonable workload and autonomy, and have the job be a good fit for their skills.

To assist you to ensure the structure of a role and responsibilities for staff, support them and ensure individual alignment to job fit, you can consider the following questions listed in the tab and connect staff to the helpful resources below.

- Does your staff member have clear goals and do they understand what is required to be successful in their role?
- Does your staff member have the right skills and interest in the role?
- Does your team/staff member have access to the relevant training to support them in their role?
- Does your staff member have a safe workload that can be completed in the required timelines or within required deadline?
- Does your staff member have the autonomy to influence how they deliver their work?
- Have healthy work principles been considered when designing the role?
- Did you use/do you use the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion to design the role, service and/or team?
- Are the teams effectively resourced to enable the required work to be completed?
- Do you have clearly defined career pathways for staff to follow?

Available resources

Engage with your HR Business Partners

HR Business Partners provides practical assistance and advice on a range of topics such as the resolution of faculty/division specific issues. Find out what else they can help you with by clicking here.

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MyPlan and MyDevelopment

These Monash platforms, accessed via my.monash, can aid staff in their development within their role and future careers.

MyPlan is a performance development system that supports ongoing conversations between staff and supervisors. MyDevelopment is a learning and development platform that provides programs that help staff succeed in their role and grow their careers.

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Occupational Health Nurses

Occupational Health Nurses are registered nurses who are there specifically to care for the wellbeing of staff. You can contact them to help you to ensure the work environment protects and promotes the work health of staff.

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Policies and Guidelines

The Processional Staff Workload, Leave and Wellbeing and Diversity and inclusion policies and procedures can provide you and your staff an insight into how well the role and work environment fits them and what support can be provided to improve their work health.

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