Scoping inquiry: Social care workforce health and wellbeing 
The Society of Occupational Medicine,  together with researchers at Birkbeck University of London and Imperial College London are looking to engage stakeholders in the social care sector to understand the health and wellbeing support in place for the workforce and how this could be improved. 

Thank you for completing this survey which will inform a stakeholder engagement approach around work and health in social care. 
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1. What is your connection to social care? *
2. What is your role? *
3. Which sector do you work in? *
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4. If you work for an organisation that delivers care, is this residential/ domiciliary/ both? *
5. If you work for an organisation that delivers care, what size is the organisation? *
6. If you work for an organisation that delivers care, is it Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated?  *
7. In your experience, do social care organisations have work and health policies (e.g. around sickness absence, manual handling) in place? 
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8. Please describe your experience of work and health policies in social care organisations *
9. In your experience, do social care workers have access to pre-employment health and safety assessments? 
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10. Please describe your experience of pre-employment health and safety assessments in social care *
11. In your experience, do social care workers have access to health and safety training for work? (e.g. manual handling, mental health at work)
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12. In your experience, do social care workers take up all health and safety training on offer?  *
Never
Always
13. Please describe your experience of health and safety training for social care workers?  *
14. In your experience, do social care workers have access to senior or peer colleague support on health and work? 
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Never
Always
15. Please describe your experience of senior or peer colleague support on health and work in social care *
16. In your experience, do social care workers have access to occupational health support if their health affects their work?
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Not at all
A great deal
17. Please describe your experience of occupational health support for social care workers  *
18. Do you think occupational health and wellbeing support would help any of the following?
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19. Please describe how risks to service users through staff ill health are managed in social care, in your experience *
20. Please describe how risks to staff health are managed in social care, in your experience  *
21. In your experience, do social care workers receive statutory sick pay? *
Never
Always
22. In your experience, do social care workers receive corporate sick pay? *
Never
Always
23. In your experience, which, if any of the following issues are social care workers exposed to at work? *
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24. In your experience, which if any of the following resources are in place to support social care workers with work-related stress? *
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25. What type of interventions do you think would be most helpful to reduce work-related stress in social care? *
26. To what extent do you believe that social care workers are responsible for their own health and wellbeing at work?  *
Not at all
Completely
27. To what extent do you believe that employers are responsible for employee social care worker health and wellbeing at work? *
Not at all
Completely
28. In your experience, how are health and wellbeing initiatives for the social care workforce funded?  *
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29. How do you think health and wellbeing initiatives for the social care workforce could be funded going forward? *
30. Are you aware of any guidance organisations can use to support the health and wellbeing of social care staff? *
31. Please list any national guidance you refer to to support health and wellbeing of social care staff *
32. How helpful is the guidance you refer to to support support health and wellbeing of social care staff? *
Not helpful
Very helpful
33. How could guidance you refer to to support support health and wellbeing of social care staff be improved? *
34. Please describe any mechanisms you use to share best practice around supporting social care staff health and wellbeing *
35. Please list any organisations that you work with to support health and wellbeing at work for the social care workforce  *
36. Are there any other issues you wish to raise about support for the health and wellbeing of social care staff? Please list below *
37. Do you wish to be invited to a stakeholder meeting to consider the results of this survey?  *
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