SIO Wellbeing National Group Support

How it works

The SIO Wellbeing Group meet every other month to discuss how to raise awareness of SIO Wellbeing concerns, identify emerging issues through research or engagement and to develop targeted interventions that can better support SIOs in their wellbeing.

All SIOs are welcome to join us and we encourage engagement of all ranks and roles to help support us in our endeavours.

A number of colleagues have replicated the group at a local level to provide enhanced support and engagement in force.

Aims:

Strategic engagement  

To influence national strategy and policy by highlighting the issues affecting SIOs and how they can be addressed, led by recommendations from academic colleagues.

Tactical interventions  

The development of evidence led wellbeing interventions to improve SIO wellbeing that can be adapted and adopted by local forces.

Supportive collaboration 

Engaging colleagues and stakeholders as a group, providing opportunities for support, networking and signposting that can help improve SIO wellbeing.

The group ensure representation at various boards including the National Investigator Wellbeing Group and the NPCC Homicide Working Group, as well as engaging in College lEarn events to share best practice.

Impact

The group have been responsible for developing a number of key guidance documents including an example investigator wellbeing strategy, support for identifying risk to SIO wellbeing and defendable decision guidance.  The group have also developed a comprehensive overview of SIO Wellbeing that can be adapted and adopted for local PIP3/PIP4 engagement events.The group have also engaged national leaders to:

• Recommendation that SIO role should be High Risk
• Commissioned further academic research to understand stressors
• Wellbeing included as part of PIP3/4 training
• Start of a SIO Wellbeing Network;
• Contributed to the Oscar Kilo Wellbeing of Investigators Toolkit and the Week of Action