Health & Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme

The Employee Assistance Programme can offer valuable in the moment support from Counsellors and Information Specialists in all areas of their lives, such as coping with pressures at work, relationshipbreakdowns, or money worries. In addition, Care first provide 3 webinars a week on a range of subjects

It is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – please see posted attached for more details.

 

Thrive: Mental Wellbeing

Thrive: Mental Wellbeing is a confidential, NHS-approved app that gives simple, effective evidence-based tools to help improve mental health and build everyday resilience. To download, search your app store for: Thrive: Mental Wellbeing and use the code to download: AVIVAIYP1116.

For a short introductory video for the app, please following the following link - Thrive: Mental Wellbeing App (brightcove.net). In addition to the Thrive Hub shared above, they also provide regular webinars and details of upcoming webinars can be found here - Webinars  To view their library of previous webinars, you can use this link.

 

Wellbeing Library

The Wellbeing Library is an online library of useful content, hints and tips – including guides and tools. In the Wellbeing Library, your employees will find sections offering helpful support on all kinds of situations, from family and relationships, money or work, mental or physical health conditions. Whatever's on their mind, they can find information to help them deal with it. - Wellbeing library - Aviva.

 

Get Active 

With Get Active, your employees can get discounts at over 3,000 health and fitness clubs, plus great at-home fitness offers and a range of savings on other products and services. It's all designed to help keep them and their families active. 

 

Please note that the above resources and services replace any that were previously available to employees via The Retail Trust.


What is wellbeing?

Wellbeing means something different to everyone.  It can be how people feel, how they function, both on a personal and a social level, or how they evaluate their lives. 

This wellbeing website aims to help the employees of VictoriaPlum.com with all aspects of wellbeing, ranging from mental health concerns to debt management and beyond. There are also a number of resources, podcasts and discounts available to help you maintain good mental health and wellbeing every day.

There are many forms of debt and a person's financial situation can have a profound impact on their mental health. Here you will discover lots of resources to help you balance your finances and improve your financial situation and wellbeing.


Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe. Everyone has feelings of anxiety at some point in their life, so you may find this section of resources useful.


Depression is more than simply feeling unhappy or fed up for a few days. Depression is a genuine health condition and with the right treatment and support, some of which can be found here, sufferers can make a full recovery.

Most people feel stressed sometimes and some people find stress helpful or even motivating. However if stress is starting to affect your life there is support and help available to help combat this