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UCL Wellbeing Strategy
UCL’s Wellbeing Strategy 2017-2022 was developed to introduce a proactive approach to wellbeing by promoting and embedding positive physical, mental and social health and wellbeing behaviours and activities across the UCL community.
- Positive environments – Building, improving and maintaining positive and supportive working and learning environments
- Policies and practice – Embedding wellbeing in our HR policies and people practices
- Healthy lifestyles – Encouraging and promoting healthy lifestyles with a specific focus on alcohol and tobacco use, physical activity, nutrition and sleep
- Mental wellness – Encouraging and supporting staff and students to maintain good mental health and manage problems should they arise
- Removing mental ill-health stigma – Creating a culture where more people feel able to talk openly about their mental health as they do physical health
- Culture and behaviour change – Embedding workplace health promotion at UCL to foster the culture enabling support and encouragement of health behaviour change
General resources
Full stop
- UCL’s commitment and policy to stop bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct
- Report and Support – report anonymously or speak to an advisor about bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct
Mental health and insomnia
- Online resources to help maintain good mental health
- Every mind matters: helping people feel more confident in looking after their mental health and wellbeing through self-care actions
- Free CBT courses from SilverCloud
- Sleepio (to help with insomnia)
- Sign up to UCL’s ten-minute mindfulness programme
On-line courses – free for staff & students (handling change, resilience, etc.)
Religion
Parents and carers
Staff resources
Workplace health
Wellbeing@UCL
UCL’s Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Staff can get help with a range of work, family and personal issues through Care first
- Access general wellbeing advice through Care first Zest
- You can speak to a professional counsellor or information specialist in confidence (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year), accessible by phone on online
- Telephone Care first directly: 0800 197 4510
- Download a PDF about the Care first EAP (650 KB)
Working from home
Menopause support
The UCL Menopause Network aims to raise awareness of menopause at UCL, provide reliable information and resources, and support women and men affected by menopause. You can also download the slides from a presentation on ‘Menopause in the Workplace for HR and Line Managers’ (PDF, 12 MB) put together by See Her Thrive, an organisation that supports women’s wellbeing in the workplace.
- NHS guidance on menopause
- Women’s Health Concern (the patient arm of the British Menopause Society)
- British Menopause Society
- Support for premature menopause
- Menopause Café – ‘gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss menopause’
- Talking Menopause
- Menopause Support
- CIPD Guidance on Menopause in the Workplace
Student resources
UCL works with Care First to provide counselling support by telephone or online using one-to-one real-time instant messaging.
Contacts
Resources
- Student support and wellbeing (SSW) department
- Phone and online support from Care First
- Disability, mental health and wellbeing support
- Student Psychological and Counselling Services (SPCS)
- Evening and weekend support
- International student support
- Student enquiries
- Emergency funding
- Student mediator – a dedicated member of staff to advise students on making complaints and support students with the resolution of informal complaints
More from UCL
Contact us
Email ioo.wellbeing@ucl.ac.uk to reach out to one of the IoO’s trained Mental Health First Aiders or Wellbeing Champions