Health & Wellbeing
From improving employee engagement to ensuring your workforce is ready to embrace change, the Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award from Investors in People will help your organisation to gain sustained performance through people.
Having a health and wellbeing programme in place can support a culture of happy and healthy employees, in turn providing improved productivity, attendance and motivation.
Much broader than just encouraging healthy eating and physical fitness, research has found that employers consider health and wellbeing to cover issues such as stress, security and morale.
A key determinant of people’s wellbeing is also how well they are managed and supported. The role that line managers and teams play in providing this to employees, particularly in today’s changing climate, is therefore extremely important.
The Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award will help your organisation to ensure that measures are in place to promote a healthy workplace and that they are providing a return on investment.
“Employers are becoming increasingly aware of the performance benefits of investing in the health and wellbeing of their people. There are strong links with improving employee engagement. In the current economic climate, companies need to adapt and be innovative. Health and wellbeing programmes are proving to be very effective at helping organisations gain the buy-in of their employees, maintain their commitment and build their resilience.” Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work
“The Award means a great deal to us. We have all worked hard to provide an environment which supports the health and wellbeing of each and every one of our employees, who after all are the ones who provide such a high quality and effective service to our patients. To have received independent endorsement of the support and services we have in place for our people is superb.”
“I am very proud of the organisation and what it achieves and I am very pleased to work with such a dedicated team who are focused on wellbeing for all. We have clearly seen the benefits of investing in supporting the health of our whole team and I would honestly urge other organisations to do the same; it has been time and money well spent and the benefit speaks for itself.” Michael Baxter, CEO, The Police Treatment Centres
Following the same tried and tested formula as the Investors in People Standard, it is a flexible and easy to use framework that outlines what you need to achieve, but never prescribing how.
If you are interested in the Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award and how it can help your organisation to raise standards and improve performance, contact us now for more information or book on one of our upcoming workshops.
Downloads:
- IiP HWB Award Framework
- Health & Wellbeing Interactive
- Health & Wellbeing Factsheets
You can also find out more about workplace wellbeing and the business case for adopting health and wellbeing strategies from Dr Ian Kenvyn in our short video below.
As programme leader for Workplace Wellbeing at Leeds Trinity University, Dr Kenvyn’s background is in Higher Education, Employer Engagement and Management. He has been involved in the development of workplace wellbeing skills for champions in a range of industries, with recent experience including the NHS, financial and third sector providers.
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