Workforce development is a key driver to promote physical activity within WAU.
This builds on initial work with a Public Health England Physical Activity Clinical Champion, who trained a small number of Healthcare Professionals in the Bolsover District to understand more about physical activity as a way of helping patients with long term health conditions.
Healthy Chats
The trainer, a physiotherapist, has gone onto establish her own Healthy Chats Community Interest Company during this time, focused on individuals working in wider community and social care roles, including social prescribing link workers. Healthy Chats trains people to talk more easily about health subjects.
Due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic, all of the training focused on those working in Shirebrook has taken place online via Zoom.
Eat, Drink, Move, Repeat
A bespoke programme was designed by Healthy Chats for the tutors of young people, aged 16 -19, who have struggled in mainstream education as part of a wider ‘health and wellbeing’ strand to their education.
It was developed in partnership with Children’s Services at Derbyshire County Council and Active Derbyshire and included a training session for tutors/learning support assistants from across Derbyshire and a separate session for learner cohorts from Shirebrook.
In addition to physical activity, the sessions for young people also included information on healthy eating habits, delivered by a dietician.
Confidence levels and feedback from tutors was very positive as can be seen in this graph:
