{"id":2347,"date":"2018-08-13T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T09:56:35","slug":"new-employee-assistance-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/08\/13\/new-employee-assistance-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"New Employee Assistance Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2363\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/08\/13\/new-employee-assistance-programme\/eap\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?fit=844%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"844,563\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Nigel Barker Photography&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"EAP\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?fit=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2363 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?resize=700%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?w=844&amp;ssl=1 844w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/EAP.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Employee Assistance Programme which provides an online, telephone and face-to-face employee support service has been launched. The service will work on the basis of confidential self-referral and it will be provided by an external provider, Health Assured. \u00a0Listed below are the key areas of support that they will offer to all staff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comprehensive telephone helplines available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week offering practical information and emotional support including<\/li>\n<li>Counselling and Emotional Support<\/li>\n<li>Family Issues<\/li>\n<li>Bereavement<\/li>\n<li>Trauma<\/li>\n<li>Relationship Issues<\/li>\n<li>Stress related conditions<\/li>\n<li>Tax Information<\/li>\n<li>Medical Information<\/li>\n<li>Money management and debt support<\/li>\n<li>Up to six structured telephone counselling sessions, per issue for employee, partner or spouse and dependents (between the ages 16-24 in full time education)<\/li>\n<li>Up to six face to face counselling sessions, per issue( for employee only ) including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)<\/li>\n<li>Access to an online wellbeing portal which provides access to extensive well-being resources including four-week programmes, videos, webinars and access to a health mobile app.<\/li>\n<li>Support specifically aimed at helping managers deal with important workplace issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The EAP is a free confidential service completely separate and independent of the services offered by the University&#8217;s Occupational Health services.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the service and details on how to access it, you can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.shu.ac.uk\/departments\/HRD\/polproc\/eap\/Pages\/employee%20assistance%20programme.aspx\">EAP Guidance<\/a> available on our staff intranet pages. Alternatively you can speak to a member of the HR Operations team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Employee Assistance Programme which provides an online, telephone and face-to-face employee support service has been launched. The service will work on the basis of confidential self-referral and it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":2349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Employee Assistance Programme","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[674,146,675,347],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-employee-assistance-programme","tag-hr","tag-staff-support","tag-wellbeing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/08\/employee-assistance-gallery.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-BR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3078,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2019\/02\/19\/class-cancellations-and-sms-text-messaging\/","url_meta":{"origin":2347,"position":0},"title":"Class cancellations and SMS text messaging","author":"Mark Greene","date":"February 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As of February 2019, the new Hallam Help service will continue to send out class cancellation notices to students via text messages. 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