Frequently Asked Questions
The iSort has been co-designed by a team of researchers at the University of Bedfordshire with health and social care providers and students training in the helping professions. It provides organisations and individuals who are training and working in the health and social care professions with an accessible, research-informed diagnostic survey and associated strategies and resources to understand, build and sustain organisational, team and personal resilience.
It is based on the Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD) Change Project by Research in Practice (RIP) and Dr Louise Grant and Professor Gail Kinman with social workers. Since 2019, the SWORD has been used extensively by a range of organisations employing social workers.
Louise and Gail are leading academic experts on occupational health and wellbeing and have written extensively on organisational and personal resilience of social workers to support development of systems in practice which help professionals to thrive.
You can access for free the iSort workbooks and toolkits for organisational resilience here and personal resilience here
The iSort is freely available to all organisations within the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes health and care partnership, members of Research in Practice and Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy.
Students based within the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire can also access the app for free.
You can access the iSort using your organisational or University of Bedfordshire email account.
In future, it is hoped that the iSort will be made available to organisations and individuals beyond the groups outlined above via a subscription service.
However, anyone can access for free the iSort workbooks and toolkits for organisational resilience here and personal resilience here
You can write to us via our contact page of the iSort website.
You will find more information about the iSort privacy policy here
If you would like to understand and enhance your employee’s experience of organisational culture, you can sign up as an organisational administrator. The organisational administrator should hold a senior role within your organisation (such as Principal Social Worker or Head of Service) to manage administration of the iSort.
As organisational administrator, you will be directed to send a survey link to all designated employees to identify strengths and areas for improvement across five key foundational principles (KFPs) of organisational resilience.
Your results will be colour coded via dashboard to show where you are doing well and what to focus on improving, directing you to evidence-based resources to support you develop your action plan build, improve and sustain each KFP of organisational resilience.
You can repeat the employee survey to track changes over time.
You can access, for free, the iSort workbook and toolkit for organisational resilience here .
Absolutely, please encourage staff and students to access the iSort to understand, build and sustain organisational, team and personal resilience.
The iSort has been co-designed by a team of researchers at the University of Bedfordshire with health and social care providers and students training in the helping professions. It provides organisations and individuals who are training and working in the health and social care professions with an accessible, research-informed diagnostic survey and associated strategies and resources to understand, build and sustain organisational, team and personal resilience.
It is based on the Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD) Change Project by Research in Practice (RIP) and Dr Louise Grant and Professor Gail Kinman with social workers. Since 2019, the SWORD has been used extensively by a range of organisations employing social workers.
Louise and Gail are leading academic experts on occupational health and wellbeing and have written extensively on organisational and personal resilience of social workers to support development of systems in practice which help professionals to thrive.
You can access for free the iSort workbooks and toolkits for organisational resilience here and personal resilience here
The iSort is freely available to all organisations within the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes health and care partnership, members of Research in Practice and Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy.
Students based within the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire can also access the app for free.
You can access the iSort using your organisational or University of Bedfordshire email account.
In future, it is hoped that the iSort will be made available to organisations and individuals beyond the groups outlined above via a subscription service.
However, anyone can access for free the iSort workbooks and toolkits for organisational resilience here and personal resilience here
You can write to us via our contact page of the iSort website.
You will find more information about the iSort privacy policy here
If you would like to understand and enhance your personal resilience, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire to identify your strengths and areas of improvement across the five key foundations for wellbeing (FWBs).
Your results will be colour coded via a dashboard to show where you are doing well and what to focus on improving, directing you to evidence-based resources to support you develop their own personal toolbox for resilience to manage stress and work pressures before they become overwhelming.
You can repeat the questionnaire to track changes over time.
You can access for free the iSort workbook and toolkit for personal resilience here.
If you wish to understand how colleagues experience organisational culture, please participate in workforce surveys and get involved in evidence-based strategies designed to support you thrive and succeed.
As a bonus, you can create your own profile of personal resilience by creating a login unique to you. You will be asked to complete a questionnaire on the five key foundations for wellbeing (FWBs) to help you build a wellness action plan personalised to you.
The iSort has been co-designed by a team of researchers at the University of Bedfordshire with health and social care providers and students training in the helping professions. It provides organisations and individuals who are training and working in the health and social care professions with an accessible, research-informed diagnostic survey and associated strategies and resources to understand, build and sustain organisational, team and personal resilience.
It is based on the Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD) Change Project by Research in Practice (RIP) and Dr Louise Grant and Professor Gail Kinman with social workers. Since 2019, the SWORD has been used extensively by a range of organisations employing social workers.
Louise and Gail are leading academic experts on occupational health and wellbeing and have written extensively on organisational and personal resilience of social workers to support development of systems in practice which help professionals to thrive.
You can access for free the iSort workbooks and toolkits for organisational resilience here and personal resilience here
The iSort is freely available to all organisations within the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes health and care partnership, members of Research in Practice and Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy.
Students based within the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire can also access the app for free.
You can access the iSort using your organisational or University of Bedfordshire email account.
In future, it is hoped that the iSort will be made available to organisations and individuals beyond the groups outlined above via a subscription service.
However, anyone can access for free the iSort workbooks and toolkits for organisational resilience here and personal resilience here
You can write to us via our contact page of the iSort website.
You will find more information about the iSort privacy policy here
If you would like to understand and enhance your personal resilience, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire to identify your strengths and areas of improvement across the five key foundations for wellbeing (FWBs).
Your results will be colour coded via a dashboard to show where you are doing well and what to focus on improving, directing you to evidence-based resources to support you develop their own personal toolbox for resilience to manage stress and work pressures before they become overwhelming.
You can repeat the questionnaire to track changes over time.
You can access for free the iSort workbook and toolkit for personal resilience here.
Before contacting the iSort support team, we recommend that you check your junk mail folder. If you have not received the activation email after 24 hours, please contact the iSort support team.
If you would like to create your own unique profile of personal resilience, providing you with a wide range of evidence-based strategies to support your wellbeing, self-care and personal and professional development, you can access the iSort using your organisational or University of Bedfordshire email account.
Organisations entitled to access the iSort for free include Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes health and care partnership, members of Research in Practice and Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy.
Students based within the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire can also access the app for free.