Resources & Support
Working with FMS can be amazing – but it can also be difficult and stressful.
Providing a complex health service in a field involves unique challenges. Whatever your role, you might see or be involved with emotionally draining or upsetting events.
We want to encourage and facilitate useful conversations about wellbeing and self-care. Talk to your colleagues about what helps you rest and recharge. Check in with each other.
What to do after a serious or traumatic incident?
Unfortunately, sometimes we have to deal with difficult or upsetting situations or work with people who are extremely unwell.
We are all human, and it is normal and understandable to have emotional responses to these situations.
The FMS Volunteer Wellbeing Service have developed a self-help guide outlining common emotional responses to difficult or traumatic situations and some practical suggestions of things that can help. This might be useful to your or a colleague during and after an event.
Facilitating Reflective Support Groups following Serious Incidents
We developed this guidance for team leaders, managers and anyone else who might need to support FMS volunteers. This is to help standardise the approach we take to ‘debriefing’ volunteers after challenging situations.
We have also developed a protocol to help guide team leaders and managers in how they might support staff/volunteers in their teams during and after a serious incident.
SUI Protocol
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