Get involved
Working in healthcare can be incredibly rewarding, but can also be incredibly demanding. The pressure, pace, and emotional intensity of the job can take a toll on your wellbeing.
UpLift4Work is a six-week digital self-help programme designed specifically for healthcare professionals. It gives you practical tools, insights, and skills to help reduce stress, protect against burnout, and improve your wellbeing at work and beyond.
It has already been shown to be effective in improving wellbeing and reducing rates of burnout with healthcare professionals. We now want to test it with healthcare professionals working in two different settings: A&E departments and inpatient psychiatric wards.
By taking part you’ll gain free access to this programme, and you’ll also be helping us to understand the best ways to support staff in high-pressure healthcare environments.
Free access to the UpLift4Work app for six weeks, with videos, exercises, and skills you can apply directly to daily life.
Short questionnaires to complete just four times over six months, helping us track the impact on wellbeing and burnout.
Two trial groups: participants will be randomly assigned to one of the following:
- App only: Work through the programme at your own pace, whenever it suits you.
- App + optional video support calls: Alongside the app, you’ll also be offered the chance to join live online calls with a mental health professional. These calls are completely optional and flexible, with no expectation to attend.
If you work in Accident & Emergency anywhere in England, you are eligible to join.
Read the participant information sheet here.
Complete the consent form here.
If you have any questions you can also contact the chief investigator Agatha Payne at apayne8@sheffield.ac.uk
We are also working in partnership with a number of NHS Trusts who are supporting recruitment for this study:
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Hull University Teaching NHS Trust
If you work in a psychiatric inpatient ward anywhere in England, you are eligible to join.
Read the participant information sheet here.
Complete the consent form here.
If you have any questions you can also contact the chief investigator Lydia Sherlock at lsherlock1@sheffield.ac.uk.
We are also working in partnership with a number of NHS Trusts who are supporting recruitment for this study.
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The NHS Trusts listed above have kindly agreed to help us to promote these studies, although participation is also open to other NHS Trusts. You can participate in these studies if you are an NHS-employed staff member in A&E or psychiatric inpatient care departments anywhere in England. Please contact the research team if you have any questions.