Workplace wellbeing Pilot

Public Health Hertfordshire

The Pilot Public Health offer

Public Health Hertfordshire are delighted to offer 6 local organisations the opportunity to benefit from a free offer of wellbeing support facilitated by Business in the Community.

The Business case for Employee wellbeing

Employers pay £9 billion a year in sick pay and associated costs, plus the indirect costs of managing business while people are off sick ( Sickness Absence Review 2011, Dame Carol Black and David Frost CBE)

A recent YouGov survey for the TUC found that one in three employees are not engaged in their work.

An Individual's Health has consequences far beyond themselves- touching their families and children, workplaces and wider communities ( Working for a Healthier Tomorrow, Dame Carol Black)

What does that mean for business?

Companies that take proactive steps to manage and promote employee wellness and engagement can improve their financial performance by as much as 10% (BITC-commissioned research by IPSOS Mori)

Physically active employees take 27% fewer days off sick ( Health Work & Wellbeing programme, 2008)

Organisations with high levels of employee engagement outperform those with below average levels of employee engagement on measures of operating income, net income growth and earnings per share ( 2007 Towers Watson Global Workforce Survey)

- See more at: http://www.bitc.org.uk/east/what-we-offer/business-action-public-health/

The Hertfordshire (Pilot)Workplace Wellbeing Offer

Use of a wellbeing survey as a base line measure Opportunity to support ‘in house’ workplace health champions

by an onsite 1 day accredited RSPH training course for upto 20 staff

To build capacity and sustainability by ‘train the trainer’ for RSPH 2 understanding health improvement

Ongoing development through a Hert’s network of champions- to update on latest initiatives

Free access to No Smoking services ½ day introduction to Mental Health –through ½ day on site

Hert’s Workplace Pilot Agreement August 2013

MHFA training for up to 25 employees Bespoke 1 day Workplace stress training Free access to County sports partnership (CSPN)wellbeing

portal to help increase/give ideas to improve health Case study opportunity to promote business Support to use the intervention as an entry for BITC award Mini Mot’s for staff Use of governments Responsibility deal to benchmark against

other organisations Sharing of BITC Workwell  toolkits Access to free practitioner network

What we expect from you*

To intensively work on key wellbeing initiatives between September- December 2013

To share your good practice across the group of employers

To use the Goverment’s Responsibility Deal –Health at work Network as a base line to build your Employee Wellbeing planning , and ultimately pledge against at least one pledge

To agree to measure the impact of the various interventions and share those outcomes.

To act as case study/ambassador for Public Health(PH)/BITC PR going forward including the PH workplace brochure.

To sign up to the CSPN wellbeing portal.

To work with BITC to put a case study wellbeing project in place for an award entry in 2014.

Timelines September to December 2013

Your contacts Debbie Longhurst –BITC

Tom May –Public Health Hertfordshire

I agree on behalf of:

To meet the above* requirements of Public Health Hertfordshire

Workplace Signature and date

Your name/job title

Hert’s Workplace Pilot Agreement August 2013