Health and Wellbeing Award: the shortlist

Headnote

We continue our series profiling the organisations shortlisted for the 2015 Personnel Today Award for Health and Wellbeing, sponsored by Investors in People. This month we look at the achievements of Barclays Bank and Cafcass.

Barclays Bank

About the organisation

Barclays is a 300-year-old British multinational banking and financial services company based in London. It has operations in more than 50 countries and around 48 million customers.

The challenge

Barclays Personal and Corporate Bank was formed in 2014, resulting in significant changes, underpinned by the embedding of a new cultural approach - the Barclays' Values. These changes led the organisation's senior leadership to consider colleague support and wellbeing for the immediate and the long term. The goal was to introduce, embed, and sustain a wellness culture, linked to the bank's values of respect, integrity, service, excellence and stewardship, and to generate colleague engagement through motivation, action and fun.

What the organisation did

>In 2014, it piloted colleague health events at trial locations. Employees wanted Barclays to play a key role in wellness, and the bank implemented a holistic approach built around four key pillars of physical, emotional, social and financial health.

*The launch event "One Small Stepathon" was designed to promote, inform and engage colleagues through friendly competition; 30,000 colleagues received a Barclays wellness branded pedometer - with alternative devices provided for those with disabilities. Colleagues logged their steps online and competed for prizes.

»Launched a Barclays Wellness Portal in June 2014, ensuring that colleagues have easy access to wellness resources and information with a 24/7 one-stop-shop accessible at work, home and on the move. The portal is built around the concept of learn, commit and maintain. Employees can draw on resources as and when they need to and make personal pledges (which can be published on the portal) to help shape their own goals. »Complemented the Wellness Portal with a Wellness "MySite", an internal interactive area for colleagues to connect, share, have fun and support each other.

*Led "ask the expert" sessions on topics such as mortgages, the London Marathon and Dementia Friends. There have been more than 75 on-site health events. Employees can gather a detailed analysis, with the AXA Health Gateway producing a personalised report.

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