Workplace Wellbeing Award overview - Print version

Workplace Wellbeing Award - The health and wellbeing commitment for employers

This fully funded programme within the Coventry area has been created to offer help, guidance, to implement changes, improve health and wellbeing in the workplace.

The Workplace Wellbeing Award is a programme for businesses/organisations that are committed to improving health and wellbeing. Due to our unique funding structure, this is available to all sectors and suitable for anyone who employs more than five employees.

Our Workplace Wellbeing Award portal will help you monitor progress and upload evidence against the listed criteria to gain your accreditation.

Our free programme includes:

• Starting Steps begins with a diagnostic, from this, we create a bespoke action plan to accommodate your needs.
• Free HR policy and procedure support.
• You will receive 1:1 support from our team.
• Access to our comprehensive toolkit - This contains templates, information and guidance you may need.
• Access to free webinars [https://www.youtube.com/@workplacewellbeingawardccc] and LinkedIn group [https://bit.ly/3LP6qAF].
• Biweekly Teams meetings or telephone support.
• Through our network within Coventry City Council, we can assist you with any vacancies you may have and business grant support.

With over 60+ organisations in Coventry and the West Midlands already on board, we would love you to join and be part of our network. 

Register now to join the Workplace Wellbeing Award programme. [https://portal.whispas.co.uk/pages/welcome]

Signing up and getting started

Once you have registered, your designated member of staff will become the Workplace Health and Wellbeing Lead for your business/organisation.
Their role will be to lead and coordinate Workplace Wellbeing Award within the organisation. It is vital that they have the full backing of senior management, this is to ensure that the necessary changes within the organisation are possible.

Investing in employee health and wellbeing - Growing healthier, happier workplaces

Your employees are your most important and valuable asset. There is a strong business incentive to better support your employees’ health and wellbeing needs. A healthier and happier workforce is much more likely to be a productive workforce. Staff who feel that their employers are proactively supporting their physical and mental health feel better valued within an organisation and will be more able to manage any existing conditions with their work. This will improve work rates and reduce absenteeism and presentism in your organisation. The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) estimates that implementing interventions to promote staff wellbeing could save employers between £130 and £5,020 per participating employee, by reducing absence or illness at work. The award framework helps employers to address issues such as reducing sickness absence costs, improving productivity and staff engagement.

Employers who take an active role in supporting staff by fostering a positive working environment through health and wellbeing initiatives, allows the organisation to thrive. Healthy employees will be more able to effectively engage in their work in a much more sustainable way and will be significantly less likely to need to take sick days.

Criteria and resources

Commitment /action plan - self-assessment

The framework contains criteria that your organisation can address to improve the health and wellbeing of your employees. The purpose of this is to provide a guide as to what steps can be taken and give an indication of areas where you may need to improve, or where you are doing well.

Organisations can progress through to further modules following completion of the two mandatory modules.     

Help and support

The Workplace Wellbeing Award team offers support and guidance to assist your organisation along its journey through dedicated 1-1 support meetings, a suite of webinars and in person events and a regular newsletter that includes information on upcoming events, new resources and learning opportunities.

There is also access to resources for each module. 

Once you sign up you will get access to the portal and regular support. 

Workplace Wellbeing Award accreditation

Accreditation

The Workplace Wellbeing Award Commitment is a standard of good practice and a quality mark for health and wellbeing in the workplace. The programme helps employers improve staff health and wellbeing, engage and communicate more effectively with employees and help to achieve a range of business and organisational benefits.

By participating you are already on the road to addressing issues such as:

• Reducing sickness absence costs
• Improving productivity
• Improving staff engagement and commitment 

After completion of the two mandatory modules, you will be able to choose further modules - topics include;

• Mental health - Prevention and Training
• Musculoskeletal 
• Line Manager Support
• Disability and Long term ill health
• Addiction (Alcohol, drugs & gambling etc)
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Menopause
• Financial Health
• Environment
• Carers in the Workplace
• Healthy choices (Lifestyles)
• Bereavement
• Domestic Abuse
• Social value (CSR)
• Sleep and relaxation