“Within Freeways being candid about stress has been an overwhelmingly positive experience, as initially we were anxious of the ‘floodgate’ effect.”

“Discussing work-related stress is now part of the organisation’s dialogue.  It is part of our working day and isn’t inherently good or bad, it’s our response to stress that makes the difference.”

Tony Rees – Head of HR & Training (Freeways)

What is FOS?

Focused Occupational Support provides stress interventions that are…

• Unique to the social care sector.

• Targeted at managerial level staff to implement top-down effective support.

• Based on a three year Stress Research Project that reduced overall sickness absence among social care managers by 53%.

• Bespoke interventions developed around the individual needs of social care organisations, not an off-the-shelf training package.
  

Video Testimonials

Social care managers discuss their experience of participating in the Stress Research Project and being recipients of the stress interventions introduced which have led to the development of FOS.