How to Use this Toolkit:
Health workers are known to experience a range of mental health issues, including burnout. Frontline health workers have faced increased job demands, complex and quickly evolving working environments and riskier working conditions, all while navigating chronic staffing shortages that preceded COVID-19.
The Health Worker Burnout Project has curated a toolkit of evidence-informed strategies to improve the mental health of health care workers. The interventions are categorized according to four levels: system, organization, team and individual. This free platform aims to provide resources that a wide range of healthcare settings and organizations can adopt to improve health workers' mental health.
Intervention Levels
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System
System level toolkits and interventions target policies at an association/union level, collective agreements, government action, or advocacy.
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Organization
Organization level toolkits and interventions focus on policies within an organization, leadership development and training opportunities within the work environment.
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Team
Team level toolkits and interventions focus on peer support, mentorship and leadership within a group setting.
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Individual
Individual level toolkits (and interventions) focuses on worker empowerment, changes in work culture or aimed at leadership within a division. We are not including single interventions that place the onus on the individual to ‘fix' themselves.
