Wellbeing

Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offers free confidential advice and counselling for all employees on a range of topics, both work-related and personal.

Additionally our wellbeing hub provides further access to resources, guides and a range of other support services to create a holistic support service.

We have introduced the role of the Wellbeing Champion to the business. These Champions have attended the Mental Health First Aid Course. The training allows them to be a first point of contact for their colleagues who may be experiencing a mental health issue, emotional distress or for managers/team members to voice their concerns regarding another colleague's wellbeing. 

The Wellbeing Champion will be able to spot signs and symptoms of common mental health issues, provide preliminary support and reassurance, and guide the individual to seek the professional assistance they may require. This interaction could range from having an initial conversation through to supporting the person to get appropriate help.

The role will work in conjunction with the Group's Employee Assistance Programme.

We look to help improve our people's physical health and wellbeing. Physical health can have a massive effect on your overall wellbeing.

With office life being more sedentary than ever, there is a real risk of employees' physical health and wellbeing to suffer.

We take steps to have a positive impact on our people's physical wellbeing, so they can be healthy and happy for years to come.

With office life being more sedentary than ever, there is a real risk of employees' physical health and wellbeing to suffer.

We offer a number of contractual and voluntary benefits to help improve our people's physical wellbeing. This includes:

• Private medical insurance
• Gym memberships
• Health cash plans
• Access to a digital GP

We design our workplaces with people's health and wellness in mind.  We aim to take a holistic approach to health in the working environment addressing behavior, operations, and design.

We enhance the design process with focus on maximising conditions such as air quality, lighting and ergonomics as well as bringing the outside in, to include the use of aesthetic designs to reduce worker stress.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, our people have been working from home where the health and wellbeing of them is even more critical. To combat this we provided desk and screen equipment to all those working from home.

Work is an important part of anyone's life, but we realise that our people have many other demands in life besides their job. Just because someone's schedule may be different or they have varied demands, doesn't mean they can't produce stellar work.

We have a number of measures in place to support our people's different lifestyles and help them with changing situations in their life.

At DWF, flexible working is welcomed. It is important to our mental health to pursue both professional and personal interests but achieving this balance can be quite a challenge.

We openly talk about approaches to flexible working in all our job vacancies.

We encourage all our people to recognise the signs of an unhealthy life balance and identify ways of sustaining a positive work-life balance.

Evidence shows that helping others can also benefit our own wellbeing.

As a business, we understand we have the power to change the world around us. Helping people and communities thrive is good for everyone and good for business. Through our responsible business agenda, we aim to inspire, engage and challenge our people to tackle some of society’s biggest issues, while supporting their wellbeing.

Our people we enable all employees to volunteer during business hours for up to 15 hours per year.

Read more about our work in the community.