Prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects: more control over psychosocial wellbeing
Recognise, analyse and prevent psychosocial risks at work. IDEWE’s prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects (PAPS) supports your organisation with your wellbeing policy, risk assessments and guidance for employees, managers and teams.
Why is psychosocial wellbeing at work important?
Psychosocial wellbeing is essential for ensuring the long-term employability of people, improving collaboration and reducing the risk of stress, conflict and sickness absence.
IDEWE helps give you insight into what’s going on at your organisation. Together, we will identify the psychosocial risks and look at ways for you to improve wellbeing for the long term.
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What are the core tasks of a prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects?
A prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects (PAPS) supports your organisation with:
- Psychosocial risk prevention and control
- Enhancing psychosocial wellbeing in both a preventive and reactive sense
- Supporting managers in dealing with wellbeing issues
A PAPS works closely with employers, HR, managers, internal prevention advisors, confidential counsellors and employees. They help ensure a working environment where people feel safe and work together with respect for each other.
Gain access to our psychosocial expertise
With the regular presence of a prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects, your organisation gains access to a trusted expert who is familiar with your operations, culture and challenges.
The PAPS works closely with your internal prevention service, HR, managers and employees. This means signs will be picked up faster and your wellbeing issues receive attention in good time.
When should you seek out a prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects?
Is your team showing signs of stress, conflict or work pressure? Do you want to systematically improve your approach to wellbeing? A prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects can advise and guide you.
As an employer, HR manager or senior employee, you may have certain questions that require answers:
- When should we be identifying psychosocial risks?
- How can we develop a wellbeing policy that is feasible in practice?
- How can we support our managers in holding difficult conversations or dealing with team tension?
- How do we encourage respectful collaboration and prevent problems from escalating?
- How do we manage change, reorganisations or teams under strain?
- How do we deal with signs of work pressure, conflict, unacceptable behaviour or absenteeism?
Employees can also approach a PAPS directly if they are having psychosocial difficulties at work.
Want to see what a PAPS could do for your organisation?
Contact your nearest regional office for an exploratory consultation
How will a prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects support your organisation?
Prevention of psychosocial risks
A strong wellbeing policy starts with insight. A PAPS can help you detect, analyse and monitor psychosocial risks. They will support you in performing a risk assessment and translating the results into achievable actions. You can also count on strategic advice to help with change, growth or reorganisations.
Want to identify psychosocial risks systematically? RAPSi, IDEWE’s smart risk assessment, gives you insight into where you are doing well and where the potential bottlenecks are. A PAPS will help you to interpret the results and link them to targeted actions.
Stronger teams
Strong teams don’t just happen. Attention to communication, respect and resilience make all the difference. A PAPS helps teams talk openly about topics such as stress, traumatic events, disconnection and respectful communication. Is your team experiencing strain? A PAPS will identify the underlying causes and support your team in re-establishing trust, cooperation and capacity.
Coaching employees
Employees can contact a prevention advisor on psychosocial aspects directly if they are having psychosocial difficulties at work. The PAPS will listen, think along and explore options for support together with the employee. If necessary, they can also initiate a formal psychosocial intervention. Confidentiality, multidirected partiality and independence are key.
Want your employees to have access to professional support with work-related or private problems?
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Supporting managers
Managers have a major impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of their employees. At the same time, they can have trouble recognising signs of stress, tension or other psychosocial risks and knowing how to deal with them appropriately.
A PAPS can help managers to recognise the signs, hold difficult conversations and address wellbeing issues within their team. This can be achieved through individual advice, a training course, peer review or bespoke support.
Managers gain more confidence and the support they need to tackle difficult situations and improve their team’s wellbeing.
Working on psychosocial wellbeing
Want to gain more control over psychosocial risks, refine your wellbeing policy or receive advice on a specific situation?
Contact your PAPS through your nearest regional IDEWE office
Why choose IDEWE?
- Sustainable partnership - IDEWE combines psychosocial expertise with an understanding of work, organisation and prevention. Our advice is practical, feasible and tailored to your organisation’s reality.
- Focus on quality - The work performed by our prevention advisors on psychosocial aspects is independent, confidential and well substantiated. They help organisations in making informed choices that are legally compliant and workable in practice.
- Integral vision on wellbeing - Our multidisciplinary approach considers psychosocial wellbeing in a broader work context. To this end, we use risk assessments, prevention, teamwork and leadership to achieve lasting improvements.