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ExploreStaff Wellbeing & Workload Training
Schools run on their people, and right now too many staff are exhausted. Workload and stress drive good teachers out of the profession. This training helps leaders and staff protect wellbeing and reduce unnecessary workload, so your team can do their best work and want to stay.
Below, we explain what our staff wellbeing and workload training involves, and how it helps you build a healthier, more sustainable school.
What Is Staff Wellbeing & Workload Training?
It’s practical training that helps schools improve staff wellbeing and cut unnecessary workload. For leaders, we cover the culture and decisions that protect wellbeing. For staff, we cover practical ways to manage workload, stress, and work-life balance.
We focus on the things schools can actually change, from marking and planning policies to how leaders communicate, rather than token gestures that don’t shift the real load.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It works for senior leaders shaping culture, or whole staff learning to manage workload. Trusts often run it across schools to improve retention.
Many schools ask for it when staff are stretched, morale is low, or retention has become a concern.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Understanding what really drives workload
- Practical strategies to manage workload
- Reducing marking and planning burden
- Protecting work-life balance
- Managing stress and building resilience
- The leader’s role in staff wellbeing
- Building a supportive school culture
- Wellbeing policies that actually work
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Keep your best staff
Wellbeing and workload are the top reasons teachers leave. Getting this right protects retention.
2
Cut unnecessary workload
We help you find and remove the tasks that add hours but little value. Staff get time back.
3
Improve morale and culture
A school that looks after its people is a better place to work, and it shows in the classroom.
4
Support leaders to lead well
Leaders learn how their decisions shape wellbeing, and how to protect their team’s time.
5
Build resilience
Staff learn practical ways to manage stress and sustain themselves over a long career.
6
Reduce absence
Better wellbeing means less staff illness and absence, which benefits pupils and budgets.
7
Make wellbeing real
We focus on genuine change, not token gestures, so staff feel the difference.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We look honestly at your school’s real workload drivers, so the training tackles what actually matters.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Practical and honest
We focus on what schools can really change, not token wellbeing gestures.
Tailored to your school
We shape the training around your culture, pressures, and priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a leadership session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know the pressures staff are under and what genuinely protects wellbeing. Our training helps you build a sustainable school, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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