The Health & Wellbeing in Workplaces Award is an opportunity for employers to show their commitment to the health and wellbeing of their workforce. We are immensely proud to highlight and support the efforts of this year's nominees, who have done fantastic work to bring public health to the workplace.

2024 Winners

Swansea Bay University Health Board - Sharing HOPE: The Art of Healing Together

The Swansea Bay initiative aims to get staff to talk and share stories in creative ways to help reduce the impact the pandemic has had on them. It uses art, such as poetry, to support staff to open up about their experiences in ways other than just talking. The project, a collaboration between Swansea Bay’s Quality Improvement and Arts and Heritage teams, offers a safe space for staff to express themselves and access support to be able to reflect and move forward.

Finalists

Medway Council - Medway Healthy Workplaces Programme

The Medway Healthy Workplaces Programme works with businesses, taking them through its Medway Workplace Wellbeing Award framework. The programme seeks to address health inequalities by taking a settings-based approach to improving health in the workplace. Businesses work to address barriers to health and wellbeing and support their staff to make healthier choices.

Myton Hospices - Staff & Volunteer Wellbeing support

The Myton Hospices recognises that working and volunteering in a Hospice is emotionally and physically demanding. Employee and volunteer personal health, wellbeing and resilience is critical for compassionate patient care and positive donor engagement, which in turn help us raise the £11m+ a year in voluntary income needed to fund the charity. Qualitative and quantitative indicators showed that staff and volunteers wanted increased wellbeing support and this is something that Myton Hospices work hard to provide. 

 

Award criteria

Entered projects and programmes should reflect the application of the following principles based on NICE guidance on healthy workplaces:

• Making health and wellbeing an organisational priority – good practice around this includes:
  • Having a named senior manager who makes employee health and wellbeing a core priority
  • Having an organisational health and wellbeing strategy
  • Integrating a health and wellbeing in relevant organisation’s plans policies and communications
  • Empowering a team of workplace health champions with enough autonomy and support to design and implement health promoting initiatives
• Embedding health and wellbeing is within the organisation’s management processes and procedures, for example by being included in the skills and knowledge requirements of line managers and in their performance review
• Committing to a parity of esteem between physical health and mental health. This means that as well as promoting healthier lifestyles and safety in the workplace, organisation also promote mental health through supportive policies and activities aimed at increasing employee resilience
• Enabling employees at all levels to have an opportunity to participate in decision-making processes around practices that have a direct impact on them, for example by having mechanisms for staff to contribute to organisational plans and policies

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Previous winners

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For more information about the Health & Wellbeing Awards and the entry process, please see our Frequently asked questions. Alternatively, please email us.

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