Employee wellbeing

The authority creates opportunities that will focus on your health, Safety, and wellbeing, while supporting initiatives that provide education and advice on a wide range of health, safety, and wellbeing topics. We integrate health, safety, and wellbeing into the way we work, promoting a positive safe and healthy environment in which all employees can thrive.

Health and Wellbeing

We create opportunities that will focus on your health, safety, and wellbeing, while supporting initiatives that provide education and advice on a wide range of health, safety, and wellbeing topics. We integrate health, safety, and wellbeing into the way we work, promoting a positive safe and healthy environment in which all employees can thrive.

The Health and Wellbeing team support the physical and mental wellbeing of employees equally by providing advice, guidance, and signposting, as well as offering focused and practical solutions for managers.  In doing so, we aim to help protect both our workforce and the Authority in the immediate and longer-term future.  

We have signed up to the Time to Change pledge which shows our continued commitment to supporting the mental wellbeing of all employees and reducing mental health stigma in the workplace. 

The authority also has a network of Mental Health First Aid’ers to support this. 

The authorities Health & Wellbeing Champions support the Health and Wellbeing Coordinators in raising awareness, being proactive and promoting good health and wellbeing for all.  

Occupational Health 

The Occupational Health team promotes and assists in maintaining the highest degree of physical and mental health of our employees, across the authority. We are here to assist employees to remain in work, return to work sooner and prevent departures from the workplace due to ill health. 

An employee can be referred by their line manager to Occupational Health at any point, there is no need to be off work.

Depending on your job role, you may be asked to attend for Health Surveillance this is to protect your health.