The concept of HealthyHealthcare draws on the complexity within the healthcare sector where key concerns around challenging working conditions, healthcare staff wellbeing, and patient care are all inherently interlinked. While numerous studies have sought to examine the pathways that link these different constructs, the intervention research into what and how to improve healthcare staff wellbeing has been lagging. This is important given healthcare staff wellbeing has been posited as an antecedent (and outcome) to both their work environment and patient care. This symposium aims to further our understanding of the existing intervention literature in the healthcare sector. We include studies that address different aspects of the intervention literature including job crafting, psycho-education, participatory team and organisational-based interventions. Drawing on healthcare workers from diverse European countries, these studies link with constructs and issues such as aging, sustainable work, stigma, digital interventions, and successful intervention designs. These lessons are important not only for those working and researching in the healthcare sector, but have implications for the wider field of occupational health psychology as well.

The first presentation by Annet de Lange creating a sustainable workforce through the retention of older workers. This draws on job crafting and future time perspective literature to examine them as predictors of indicators of sustainable work ability in a panel of Dutch healthcare workers. Next, Asta Medisauskaite presents on a psycho-education based intervention where doctors in the United Kingdom took part in a randomised control trial to challenge mental health stigma in medicine.

The final two studies relate to interventions at the group level. The fourth study by Sylvia Broetje examines the acceptance of a digitally-supported participatory leadership and team development tool by nurse managers and executives, including the factors influencing acceptance. Finally, Kevin Teoh reflects on the challenges of execution and measurement of a hospital-level intervention to reduce workplace conflict and improve staff wellbeing and performance. The symposium will be completed by summarising conclusions for future avenues of research and practice in this field.

CHAIR
Annet de Lange
Open University, Heerlen, Netherlands
DISCUSSANT
Kevin Teoh
Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

IN THIS SYMPOSIUM

Successful aging and job crafting to sustain at work: Examining relations between job crafting and work ability of healthcare workers
Annet de Lange, Karen van Dam, Karen Pak, Marit Christensen, Lise Lovseth, Eghe Osagie, Tjerry Verhoeven
Open University, Heerlen, Netherlands.
HAN University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
University of Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands.
VNO-NCW midden, Arnhem, Netherlands

Intervention for doctors reducing stigma around mental distress: Randomised controlled trial
Asta Medisauskaite, Caroline Kamau
UCL Medical School, London, United Kingdom.
Birkbeck, London, United Kingdom

Reflections of an organisational-level wellbeing intervention: What worked and what did not
Kevin Teoh
Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom