SERVICES
Health Promotion
Improve your employees’ health and wellness – and boost overall productivity – by promoting health awareness and wellbeing in the workplace.
Implementing a health promotion strategy sets you out as a responsible employer – encouraging the best talent to seek your business out, and ensuring your team members are happy, healthy and productive in their roles.
Workplace Wellbeing and Health Promotion in Inverness and the Highlands
Every business owner wants their staff to be healthy. With employees spending over a third of their waking lives in the workplace, promoting a healthy lifestyle brings benefits both to your employees and your business – increasing health, self-confidence, productivity and efficiency.
Workplace health promotion works best as a collaboration between your business, your staff, and an occupational health provider, who can introduce initiatives designed to improve physical and mental health at work.
We will work with you to identify the health promotion initiatives best suited to your business, creating a culture of positive health and wellbeing in your workplace.
Lifestyle Assessments
Your staff will receive personalised recommendations for improving their health and wellbeing from our nurse following a lifestyle assessment.
Carried out at your premises or our clinic in Inverness, we will provide your team with a snapshot of key lifestyle indicators, which can incentivise them to think about how they can improve their health.
Following a chat with our nurse to identify areas for improvement (e.g. exercise, eating, drinking, smoking, mental health), your employees will receive a lifestyle booklet filled with notes based on their unique situation.
Blood pressure, height, weight, BMI and cholesterol readings are also noted down, with individuals directed to their GP to discuss any unexpected results.
This type of assessment can be extremely effective when used to demonstrate the success of corporate sports/health challenges, e.g. recording weight loss or improved blood pressure. In providing accurate measurements, you can evidence the positive impact of any health challenge – encouraging your staff to continue on their path to better health.
Workplace Mental Health Promotion
According to the Mental Health Foundation, 14.7% of “people experience mental health problems in the workplace” – while around “12.7% of all sickness absence days in the UK can be attributed to mental health conditions”.
While public stigma around mental health is easing, employers are still often unsure of where to start when it comes to trying to support and improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of their staff.
We will work with you to identify the options most appropriate for your team and your business, providing you with clarity and support when tackling the challenges of mental health in the workplace.
Health Promotion Presentations
Short ‘lunch and learn’ sessions, or health promotion presentations, can be a useful tool in promoting a positive health and wellbeing culture within your team and your organisation.
Our occupational health experts in the Highlands can cover a variety of topics, from highlighting the negative impacts of alcohol and smoking, to raising awareness of healthy eating, mindfulness and staying physically fit.
Sessions take place during work time and will be tailored to you and your team’s areas of interest. Our nurse will engage with your staff, present information, encourage discussion, and answer any questions from your team.
Regular and interactive health promotion activities are a positive way to drive engagement around health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Annual Health Calendar Events
National health awareness days, months or events are an increasingly popular and effective method of raising awareness of a specific health issue. With our extensive experience in occupational health services, we will provide valuable advice, ideas and tools to help your business maximise the impact of these events.