2. Making workplace health work

3. Employee wellbeing on a shoestring
Neill Boddington
Northamptonshire County Council
Making workplace health work

4. Neill Boddington
Health & Wellbeing Advisor
LGSS

5. Tip 1; Do not waste your limited resources

6. Tip 1; Do not waste your limited resources

7. Tip 2; Understand your level of influence

8. Tip 3; Make friends & allies

9. Group Activity List your ideas under three categories;
Now consider all your answers against a specific wellbeing campaign;
Stoptober
Back Awareness Week
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Stress Awareness Day
An example……..Blood Pressure Awareness Week.
Our People
Our Teams
Our Comms
Our External Links

10. So what have we come up with…?

11. Tip 4; Share good practice
Create a Wellbeing network/forum/group from a range of vested interests to collaborate and link up to deliver.
Act before normal behaviours have a chance to return!
Write down at least 1 positive action from this.
share this idea with at least one other person in your company,
Diarise the work needed.

12. Neill’s Examples Our People Our Teams Our Comms Our External Links
Know your demographics – link to related health concerns
Target teams based on demographics and staff stats i.e. age, absence etc
Regular articles in newsletter (Knowledgeable staff or companies could produce?)
Commercial companies seeking exposure/publicity i.e.gym osteopath, bike shop
Know your objectives & prioritise – actions to aims
Include wellbeing in team meetings, staff days – wellbeing quiz etc
Use ‘save the date’ to encourage events reserved in diaries
Piggy back on local & nation events and campaigns for enhanced staff awareness.
Blogs
Pilots run in specified teams
‘Everybody’ s
Public Health Resource Library
Case studies
HR – i.e. policies.
Social media
National & local charities
Staff with expertise (and willing to offer it for free)
Marketing – i.e. create branding and campaign materials
Senior management blogs/comms etc
Staff discounts list for local companies
Sessions lead by the staff requesting it i.e. lunchtime walk
Training - i.e. stress assessments
Utilise intranet front page
Public Health, First for Wellbeing
Wellbeing Champions
IT – i.e. DSE
Promote free external links i.e. NHS Health Checks,
Northamptonshire Sport & Adult Learning
Free wellbeing training – i.e. smoking advisor, walk leader & online
OH – Specialist knowledge, encourage prevention, ask for free services in tenders.
Make events visible to raise awareness and ‘passing trade’.
Embed external resources on internal media i.e. NHS Choices BMI calculator

14. Thank you!
Any questions?