Working Well in East Riding
Information and support for employers to improve the wellbeing of their staff, increasing productivity and retention in the workplace.
Why wellbeing in the workplace matters
Employers have a pivotal role to play in providing healthy and inclusive workplaces. By creating and promoting a long-term wellbeing plan in your business, you are setting the business, shareholders, employees and customers up for success, longevity and fulfillment.
Supporting employees to concentrate on their own physical health and wellbeing is vital to encouraging economic growth and sustaining a strong, productive and resilient workforce. For the employer it means higher productivity through fewer days lost to illness and stress.
Changes to the workplace, being able to access and create awareness of available local and national services, promoting wellbeing alongside addressing mental and physical health issues all increase resilience to stress. Employee wellbeing boosts employee engagement, reduces sickness and absence and encourages higher performance and productivity. Employers with wellbeing plans in places have better brand image, retention and recruitment.
There are many ways to create a wellbeing strategy that will suit your business. Using Working Well from East Riding of Yorkshire Council will help set up and support you in implementing employee wellbeing inside your business.
What is Working Well?
Working Well wants to work with local businesses in their efforts to support a healthy workforce.
Working Well will support local businesses to be aware of and have access to health and wellbeing services and initiatives and encourage businesses to work together in a network and share good practice.
Working Well will assist employers to focus on supporting employees to ensure that the workforce remains healthy, engaged and motivated. Employers may have to embrace different ways of working, creating exciting and flexible working environments that inspire staff. The response to COVID-19 has brought new challenges that will no doubt have long-term effects on employee's mental, physical and financial wellbeing. The health and wellbeing of employees has never been more important.
If you are interested, we'd like to come and talk to you about what you think would work best for your staff and for you as an employer. We will develop an activity plan tailored just for your business and you will then have a direct link to East Riding of Yorkshire Council for future support. Email us at: healthatwork@eastriding.gov.uk
What's in it for the employer?
- A direct contact with East Riding of Yorkshire Council to support workforce health and wellbeing.
- A means of supporting workforce health and wellbeing by providing opportunities to engage, consult and share good practice about health and wellbeing within a local network.
- Support with creating awareness, promoting and accessing local and national services.
- Access to health and wellbeing campaign resources, materials and information.
- Support to create workforce wellbeing events.
- Opportunities to attend seminars, webinars and training centred around health and wellbeing.
- Opportunity to become involved within a local network of businesses, sharing good practice with the introduction of workplace Health and Wellbeing 'champions'.
- Great publicity. We will share our partnership working across the East Riding and beyond via a plethora of communication channels including social media and websites.
Get free NHS Health Checks at your workplace
Workplaces in the East Riding can now offer their employees aged 40 to 74 free NHS health checks thanks to a new scheme with East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Health checks have proven to save lives, catching early signs of many debilitating and life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease and some cases of dementia.
Offering health checks at the workplace make it convenient for people, making it more likely these free health checks will be used. In turn organisations will benefit through improved productivity and less sickness.
Sign up your workplace by emailing the team on healthatwork@eastriding.gov.uk.
Read more about Workplace NHS Health Checks on the services for local businesses.
Health and Wellbeing Champions
There will be the opportunity for employees to become a health and wellbeing champion. A champion is a member of the workplace who supports the health and wellbeing of staff. Champions know their work areas and colleagues and are often best placed to recognise what may work best in their organisation. Champions can also signpost to resources, information and local services and help support health and wellbeing events.
Health and wellbeing champions will also be given the opportunity to attend a Health and Wellbeing Network for local businesses in order to share good practice, working together as a local business community in which the health and wellbeing of employees is given top priority.
Services for local businesses
There are many services available to help improve health and wellbeing in the workplace, including training for managers. You can find a selection below, or search for more in the services and groups directory on the Find Wellbeing page.