Championing wellbeing and good mental health
In addition to HoListik, we have a separate internal Mental Health and Wellbeing group. The group works to break down barriers to address the stigma that surrounds mental health, enabling everyone to feel safe and confident in talking about their mental health or any issues they may be encountering.
As well as making sure we provide a considerate and creative working environment, the group also recruits and oversees our network of Wellbeing Champions.
Wellbeing Champions
Our Wellbeing Champions are available to all our people and will provide support for anyone going through a difficult time.
Each one a volunteer, they undertake Mental Health First Aider training to give them the knowledge and skills to be able to offer the right support to colleagues who may be experiencing mental health issues.
To make them more accessible and approachable, each of our champions has prepared a short ‘get to know me’ bio, to help people find out a little more about them and their background. The bios are available to read on our employee portal and colleagues can choose whichever champion they feel most comfortable with to reach out to, regardless of where they’re located or which team they’re in. They can also choose how they wish to approach them – face-to-face, over the phone, online or by email.
When recruiting the volunteers, we aim for representation across our offices, with a mix of roles, seniority levels and genders. As for numbers of champions, it’s our intention to have one champion for every ten employees, the figure that employers are encouraged to aim for.
Here’s what some of our champions said when asked, what does being a wellbeing champion mean to you?