Your Wellbeing
heart of everything.
At Essex County Council we are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our people. We strive to enable the right environment, conditions, and behaviours so individual and organisational wellbeing is embedded in everything we do.
We recognise that a healthy, content and resilient workforce is an engaged and productive one – and when you serve the people of Essex in the wide variety of life-enhancing ways that we do – this is absolutely essential.
“Our definition of wellbeing is a sense of organisation, team and individual health, contentment and resilience, in which each individual employee is supported to make informed choices and engage in positive wellbeing behaviours in order to thrive at Essex County Council and beyond.”
– Dr Sabrina Robinson, Wellbeing Lead, People and Transformation
Our Wellbeing Strategy 2020 – 2025 sets out our vision and aims for employee wellbeing. We focus on four integrated pillars of wellbeing: physical, mental, social and financial wellbeing.
Our prevention focussed strategic approach recognises that: our choice of wellbeing initiatives; policies, standards, and practices; individual engagement and behaviours; and leadership and management approach all impact our people’s overall wellbeing at work and our wellbeing culture.
Alongside this our People Plan 2021 -2025 sets out the priorities for our workforce over the coming years, helping us ensure we’re enabling, growing, and equipping our workforce to deliver now and in the future. A core element of this plan being ‘creating a healthy place to work’.
Wellbeing In Our People’s Words
Listen to colleagues from across Essex County Council share their insights on what wellbeing means to them and the impact the councils’ wellbeing approach has had on their wellbeing.
Our My Wellbeing Offer
We work closely with our people to provide wellbeing support based on their needs. Offering a wide range of wellbeing benefits to enable our employees to manage all areas of their wellbeing. Just some of the offer available to our employees is outlined below:
| Regular Wellbeing Events and Programmes Throughout the Year including our monthly Wellbeing Hour Live Event | Specialist Psychological Support Service for our Employees in Social Care and Some Other Frontline Roles |
| Regular Wellbeing Events and Programmes Throughout the Year including our monthly Wellbeing Hour Live Event | Access to our Essex Wide Working Well Service and Active Essex – Find Your Active Workplace Edition |
| Regular Wellbeing Check-Ins | Financial Education and Access to a Range of Financial Wellbeing Products |
| My Wellbeing Hub – An Online Platform Giving Access to Wellbeing Focused Learning and Resources | Wellbeing Focussed Discounts on our My Reward Hub |
| Regular Wellbeing Communications and Campaigns | Discounted Health Cash Plan, Access to Dental Insurance and Eye Care Vouchers |
| Occupational Health | Corporate Flu Vaccination Programme |
| Mental Health First Aiders | Access to Specialist Mental Health Support |
Wellbeing is about focussing on my happiness
Anna
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