Health, Wellbeing and Bereavement for Health Professionals

The Clinical Supervision and Support Guideline describes clinical supervision options and provides a guide for organisations to support staff and volunteers appropriate to the individual and their scope of practice to access supervision, should they choose to do so.
Click here to download these guidelines.
The 2 part psychosocial screening in palliative care setting and bereavement support in the palliative care setting guideline provides a framework to support generalist clinicians/services, across settings, to include screening for psychosocial distress as a part of palliative care assessment and provides support to staff in routine bereavement care, and to identify triggers for consideration of specialist bereavement care when necessary.
Click here to view the guideline

The Self-care and wellbeing in the palliative care and end of life setting guidelines provide information on self-care options as a part of clinician wellbeing when working in a palliative care environment.
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The free Grief, Loss and Bereavement webinar education package is designed for health professionals whose everyday work brings them into contact with people in their time of grief.
The hour long pre-recorded sessions, hosted by Keren Ludski, can be viewed at anytime on the GRPCC youtube channel by clicking the links below.
Session 1: Grief and loss theories and framework
Session 2: Effective grief and bereavement support
Session 3: Grief and loss in a palliative care setting
Session 4: Understanding and supporting perinatal infant loss
Session 5: Identifying your own emotional and physical responses to loss and how to effectively engage in self-care strategies
Melbourne City Mission have developed a tip sheet for families with an extensive list of services available in Victoria.
Click here to view the tip sheet

For information and resources on Grief Loss and Bereavement click here
Grief is challenging, and supporting someone grieving can be too.
The short Responding to Grief and Bereavement video helps healthcare professionals approach grief with confidence, care, and clarity.
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Smiling Mind is a free app that enables you to practice daily meditation and mindfulness exercises from any device Guidelines.
Click here to find out more and download the app.
The Essence of Spiritual Care - Learning Modules are for all professionals in healthcare, developed in collaboration with clinical experts and education specialists.
Topics include:
What is spiritual care?
What is spirituality?
Listening, presence and empathy
The art of spiritual care.
Click here to be directed to the Launch Learning website
These recorded practices are designed to help you be with yourself in a healthy and supportive way.
Click here to be directed to the Self-Compassion website

Developed by health professionals for health professionals, Treat is a unique self-care app designed to help you find calmness, clarity and balance during your busy working day.
For IOS access the Treat App here.
Never has it been more important to care for your own mental health and wellbeing and for that of your employees, colleagues, family members or loved ones. Safer Care Victoria has a list of support and training services for health professionals.
Click here to visit the Safercare Victoria website’s Healthcare worker wellbeing resources.
This toolkit provides a step-by-step guide to implementing a COVID-19 pandemic-specific professional development workshop focused on improving the wellbeing and reducing the risk of burnout in healthcare workers.
Click here to open the toolkit

Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.
Phone : 1300 22 4636
Click here to visit the Beyond Blue website.
Each health service, community health service, and residential aged care facility will have arrangements to support employee wellbeing.
EAP services provide confidential telephone counselling support to employees with psychosocial concerns and enhance wellbeing, related to work or personal circumstances.
Please check your employee website or noticeboard for contact details
These meetings can also be known as death reviews or death debriefs. It’s an opportunity available to all staff across Gippsland working in or with Palliative Care patients, to be part of a confidential facilitated informal discussion about deaths that have recently occurred.
They are facilitated by one of the experienced Social Workers from Gippsland Regional Palliative Care Consultancy Service (GRPCCS).
These reflections can be held on an on-going regular or ad hoc basis, in either a group format at times individually.
Click here for more information or contact the PCCG on 5173 8663 or via email at bwicks@lrh.com.au or lgordon@lrh.com.au

Life Line is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Phone: 13 11 14
Click here to visit the Life Line website.
Nurse & Midwife Support is a 24/7 national support hotline for nurses and midwives, nursing and midwifery students, employers, educators and concerned family and friends. It provides access to confidential advice and referral.
Phone: 1800 667 877
Click here to visit the Nurse & Midwife Support website.

The bereavement support standards have been developed by the Department of Health for use in all Victorian government-funded, adult, specialist palliative care services including community, inpatient, acute and consultancy services.
Click here to view the Bereavement support standards for specialist palliative care services

The purpose of this document is to articulate practitioner-defined principles for:
• specialist bereavement services
• providers of specialist bereavement counselling and support.
Click here to view the framework