Psychological Health Monitoring
RECOVERY PARTNERS: THE WELLBEING EXPERTS
Psychological Health Monitoring
A Psychological Health Monitoring Screen involves checking whether an employee displays signs of a mental disorder. Our health monitoring screen is intended for existing or ongoing employees and can help monitor/review any changes to the employee’s risk profile over time due to either changing their personal circumstances or changes resulting from ongoing exposure to vicarious trauma.
How does Psychological Health Monitoring work?
Upon receipt of referral information, our Recovery Partners’ PEHA team sends an appointment confirmation to the employee referred with links to appropriate psychometric tests (for completion remotely before their ‘wellbeing check call’).
Online Psychometric Testing
For each employee referred, an online link will be sent to them with relevant psychometric assessments. Testing will take approximately 5 to 10 minutes and employees will be expected to complete this prior to their ‘wellbeing check call’.
The proposed psychometric assessment typically includes:
The Professional Quality of Life Scale – 5(ProQOL)
Professional Quality of Life is the quality one feels in relation to one’s work as a helper. Both the positive and negative aspects of doing one’s job influence one’s professional quality of life.
The ProQOL measures three aspects of professional quality of life:
- Compassion Satisfaction (pleasure you derive from being able to do your work well)
- Burnout (exhaustion, frustration, anger and depression related to work)
- Secondary Traumatic Stress (feeling fear in relation to work‐related primary or secondary trauma)
The scale is particularly useful for professionals to self-monitor their satisfaction and as a prompt for self-care. In addition ProQOL can be used to track professional quality of life over time to help inform workload, leave and support decisions.
Wellbeing Check
Following review of completed psychometric testing, employees will be required to participate in a wellbeing check phone call with an appropriately qualified Recovery Partners Assessor. During the call, the assessor will discuss the following:
- What the employee’s Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress scores are and what these scores mean
- What the employee’s scores are in comparison to normative data for others in comparable roles
- Self-care tips relevant to the employee’s results and whether the employee’s scores indicate they may benefit from accessing further support from a healthcare professional
Benefits of Psychological Health Monitoring
- Early identification and management of any psychosocial risks can help minimise the potential severity of mental health injuries/symptoms and time lost from work.
- Health monitoring promotes early access to treatment or other control measures and helps reduces the financial costs associated with psychological injuries.
- Under model work health and safety laws, psychosocial hazards and risks are treated the same as physical hazards and risks. Psychological Health monitoring ensures psychological health and safety risks in your organisation is being adequately managed.
- Proactively managing psychosocial hazards at work not only protects workers, it also benefits businesses by improving organisational performance and productivity.
NEWS
From our blog
The Hidden Benefits of Employee Assistance Programs
In today’s fast-paced and demanding work environments, employees often face a multitude of personal and professional challenges that can impact their wellbeing and job performance.
Aged care workers experience grief too – 5 tips for challenging times
Aged care workers play a vital role within our communities. They assist with caring for our loved ones in their later stages of life and
Ongoing mental health decline in young workers
Mental health issues among young workers have become a growing concern globally. Workplace stressors are among the main contributors of ongoing mental health problems in
Let’s start a conversation!
Let’s start a conversation!
Our friendly support team are ready to assist you.
Call us on 1300 OHS RTW (647 789) or email enquiries@rrp.com.au
We welcome your enquiry