SAS Bloggers

SAS Wellbeing Blog

We are five individuals who have come together virtually through a shared passion for improving staff health & wellbeing and supporting our colleagues in the Service.  It all began when Dan volunteered to start a wellbeing blog with the aim of engaging others in the Service to start a conversation about wellbeing.  His blog was written from the heart, sharing his personal experiences with both humility and humour that resonated with us and our everyday work in the Scottish Ambulance Service.  We were inspired to contribute ourselves and one by one we joined and formed a small and enthusiastic team called ‘The SAS Bloggers’.      

Creating a wellbeing blog by staff, for staff

We started the blog around the time that the COVID-19 pandemic started to make an impact when our organisation was looking at different ways we could support our staff and it has provided us with plenty of wellbeing topics to write about.  What has worked well is that we all have different styles of writing, varied backgrounds and experience so each blog gives a different perspective on each topic. A wellbeing blog is posted every week with a different topic each time.  We have covered topics from mental health, being human, social connections and managing guilt to exercising when you hate it, the importance of sleep, balancing life & work and managing uncertainty, to name a few.

Has it made an impact?

More staff have accessed the wellbeing blog than any other wellbeing resource provided internally or externally since it began in March 2020.  That has made us very proud to be part of this team and we are keen to continue writing and developing the blog. 

Here is what some of our colleagues have said:

And it's helped us too: