Making workplace health work

Employee wellbeing on a shoestring Neill Boddington Northamptonshire County Council Making workplace health work

Neill Boddington Health & Wellbeing Advisor LGSS

Tip 1; Do not waste your limited resources

Tip 1; Do not waste your limited resources

Tip 2; Understand your level of influence

Tip 3; Make friends & allies

Group Activity List your ideas under three categories; Now consider all your answers against a specific wellbeing campaign; Stoptober Back Awareness Week Breast Cancer Awareness Month Stress Awareness Day An example……..Blood Pressure Awareness Week. Our People Our Teams Our Comms Our External Links

So what have we come up with…?

Tip 4; Share good practice Create a Wellbeing network/forum/group from a range of vested interests to collaborate and link up to deliver. Act before normal behaviours have a chance to return! Write down at least 1 positive action from this. share this idea with at least one other person in your company, Diarise the work needed.

Neill’s Examples Our People Our Teams Our Comms Our External Links Know your demographics – link to related health concerns Target teams based on demographics and staff stats i.e. age, absence etc Regular articles in newsletter (Knowledgeable staff or companies could produce?) Commercial companies seeking exposure/publicity i.e.gym osteopath, bike shop Know your objectives & prioritise – actions to aims Include wellbeing in team meetings, staff days – wellbeing quiz etc Use ‘save the date’ to encourage events reserved in diaries Piggy back on local & nation events and campaigns for enhanced staff awareness. Blogs Pilots run in specified teams ‘Everybody’ emails Public Health Resource Library Case studies HR – i.e. policies. Social media National & local charities Staff with expertise (and willing to offer it for free) Marketing – i.e. create branding and campaign materials Senior management blogs/comms etc Staff discounts list for local companies Sessions lead by the staff requesting it i.e. lunchtime walk Training - i.e. stress assessments Utilise intranet front page Public Health, First for Wellbeing Wellbeing Champions IT – i.e. DSE Promote free external links i.e. NHS Health Checks, Northamptonshire Sport & Adult Learning Free wellbeing training – i.e. smoking advisor, walk leader & online OH – Specialist knowledge, encourage prevention, ask for free services in tenders. Make events visible to raise awareness and ‘passing trade’. Embed external resources on internal media i.e. NHS Choices BMI calculator

Thank you! Any questions?