You will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme, a confidential service which offers telephone support 24/7, 356 days a year. Legal advice, financial guidance and counselling will be available to you and your immediate family.

We regularly hold wellbeing events, including talks from inspirational speakers and health experts, workshops and courses. We also work with our partner organisations to provide joint health and wellbeing events.

We have a Menopause Staff Group and hold menopause training and awareness sessions for our staff and managers. We’ll also soon have a network of trained Menopause Champions, who will help us to keep promoting conversations about menopause in the workplace.

We have a network of staff volunteers who are trained to listen, help and guide colleagues who are struggling, need some support or just someone to talk to. Wellbeing Supporters are approachable, passionate about helping others and promoting wellbeing.

We know that flexibility is important and we’re proud that in our latest staff survey 90% of our colleagues said that they can work in a way that best suits their needs, whether that’s remotely, in the office or a mix of both.

We recognise that many people need to fit work around other responsibilities such as family or caring commitments. We try to accommodate other flexible working arrangements wherever possible, helping our colleagues to maintain a healthy balance between their life inside and outside of work.

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We offer a wide range of mental health and wellbeing related training for managers and staff delivered both virtually and in-person. This includes personal resilience and wellbeing, emotional resilience, suicide prevention as well as access to a wide range of online and in-person workshops delivered by our community partners, Talkworks and Step One. These workshops include managing stress and worry, anger management, supporting your sleep, social anxiety, as well as opportunities to join-in with peer support group training, such as an anxiety peer support café and men’s wellbeing walk sessions.

Our Health and Safety team also deliver courses in-house on managing safely for managers and risk assessments as well as online health and safety training for all staff on stress awareness, manual handling (back safety) and display screen equipment.

We also have an internal coaching service which can be accessed by any of our staff, this can provide added support in developing more effective work relationships, working styles or preferences, time management, confidence-building and assertiveness.