The Wellbeing at Work Strategy is one of a framework of enabling strategies supporting the University’s People and Culture Strategy.
The strategy outlines how we plan to meet the following ambition in the People and Culture Strategy:
We will take a proactive approach to supporting and promoting physical and mental health and wellbeing for all our people, identifying pressures and acting to relieve them, and providing access to sufficient resources and effective support.
The Wellbeing at Work Strategy has three ambitions:
Working to:
- Actively reduce or mitigate stressors/ill-health factors that exist in the workplace, replacing them with those which help build and strengthen factors contributing to health and wellbeing so that we can flourish;
- Supporting people to improve their wellbeing and strengthen their personal resources including external factors outside of the workplace.
- Ensuring effective measures are in place where people are adversely impacted by ill health.
A wellbeing survey was conducted to inform the development of the strategy. The results of this can be found on the Wellbeing Survey Results Google Site
We have already completed a range of actions and have further actions planned to support the achievement of these ambitions. You can read more about this in the Activities in support of the Wellbeing at Work Strategy. A key action already underway is the completion of a Stress Management Risk Assessment which will inform actions in support of Ambition 1.
Further information and resources about wellbeing at work can be found on our Health and Wellbeing webpages.