Anxiety Management.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Panic Disorders.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Mild to moderate mental health problems.
Depression.
Courses and Workshops we deliver:
The Counselling and Psychology Service offers a range of short courses and workshops aimed at improving knowledge, skills and coping mechanisms. These include: stress awareness and stress management training, Bereavement and Loss, Counselling Skills for non-Counsellors, and Breaking Bad News.
The Counselling and Psychology service will attempt to meet any additional requests for training or advice. If the skills required are not available in-house we will help source the most appropriate provider.
Mediation
The Counselling and Psychology Service also has a Counsellor trained in mediation.
Critical Incident Management.
A Critical Incident can be defined as any situation in which a person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with actual or threatened death or serious injury, or was confronted with a threat to the physical integrity of self or others. Examples of critical incidents may include; physical/sexual assault, threat to physical health, witnessing the traumatic death or injury of patients and/or members of staff, and where a patient and/or member of staff seriously harms himself/herself or others or commits suicide while in the employers care or employment. The person's response usually involves intense fear, helplessness, or horror after a critical incident.
OHSAS believes that critical incident management is a comprehensive, integrated multicomponent crisis intervention system. CAPS can provide organisational level advice, consultation and training in relation to Critical Incident Management. This may include ongoing support and intervention for individuals particularly affected by involvement in such an incident.
What is Occupational Psychology?
Occupational Psychology focuses on identifying and resolving organisational issues in order to improve working life for employees (e.g. improve health, well-being and job satisfaction) and increase organisational effectiveness (e.g. improve efficiency / productivity of the business). Occupational Psychologists are required to abide by the BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct and the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology’s Guidelines for Professional Practice and Conduct of Occupational Psychologists. You can expect a professional and ethical service, confidentiality and best practice advice.
Why might Occupational Psychology be useful?
Organisations are often confronted with a wide-range of difficulties such as:high levels of sickness absence, high levels or work-related stress complaints amongst employees, high turnover rates, in-adequate training and development for employees, large-scale organisational changes (e.g. mergers), in-effective recruitment and selection procedures and so on. Occupational Psychologists apply their knowledge, skills and expertise to help design best practice solutions to organisational problems.
What can you expect?
Professional and Ethical Service
Confidentiality
Reliable and Valid Methods
Best Practice Advice
What issues can be addressed?
Occupational Psychologists deal with a wide-range of issues affecting an organisation.
We provide advice, guidance and solutions in the following areas:
Stress Risk Assessment / Stress Management
Organisational advice and consultation on conducting stress risk assessments. This may include running focus groups to identify issues, utilising a survey tool / questionnaire, data analysis and intervention design / help with implementing solutions to prevent and reduce work-related stress. We can provide advice and guidance on how to develop a Stress Policy and how to implement the Health & Safety Executive’s Stress Management Standards in your organisation.
Training
We can offer advice on organisational training needs analysis, design and deliver tailor made workshops to suit your organisation and help with the evaluation / improvement of existing training programmes. We can design and deliver training workshops on a variety of topics including: stress management, inspirational leadership, effective communication skills, assertiveness, conflict management and many more!
Recruitment and Selection
Certain selection methods are more effective at predicting a candidate’s future job performance than others. We can provide advice and guidance to optimise an employers chance of selecting the correct person for the job. Services include: job analysis, design of competency based / structured interviews, interview fairness, utilising psychometric tests (e.g. cognitive ability and aptitude tests). We also offer help with writing job descriptions and person specifications.
Performance Appraisal and Career Development
Organisational advice on designing and implementing an effective performance appraisal / performance management system, leadership development, staff retention procedures and career / personal development advice.
Organisational Change
Advice and guidance on organisational development and change strategies, team effectiveness and job satisfaction.
