Perceptions of wellbeing and collective efficacy among school staff in Northern Ireland

Collective Efficacy (CE) is a groups’ belief in their conjoint efforts to achieve success. Staff CE and wellbeing have been adversely impacted by systemic pressures which has significant repercussions for a school’s culture and outcomes for pupils.

Research has aimed to understand how best to support school staff wellbeing. However, this has primarily focused on teachers, and CE has not been investigated amongst school staff in Northern Ireland (NI).<br><br>The current study aimed to combine quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how various members of school staff across schools in NI perceive the prioritisation of wellbeing and CE in their school. Quantitative methods consisted of secondary data analysis of an existing dataset of questionnaire responses from an ongoing intervention produced by the NI Educational Psychology Service.