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Objective 4

Establish a healthy behaviour culture across UCL.

Objective 4 is to establish a healthy behaviour culture across UCL, building on the UCL Ways of Working to include lifestyle, safety, sustainability, bullying and harassment and compassionate behaviour.

Co-creating a shared understanding of healthy behaviour building on the UCL Ways of Working to include lifestyle, safety, sustainability, bullying and harassment and compassionate behaviour.  Enabling workplace supports and guidance to help staff maintain good health and wellbeing and develop healthy habits.  Supporting others and challenging behaviour safely.

Actions:

a)    Run a focus group of representatives including leads from Workplace Health, Safety Services, Sustainability, EDI, Behaviour Science Health and Centre for Behaviour Change to create a shared understanding of healthy behaviour at UCL.  

b)    Raise awareness of Departmental Safety Officer (DSO) role, developing their awareness of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace

c)    Develop a plan to identify the volunteer networks across UCL and offer them development in mental health and wellbeing awareness

d)    Develop guidance on safely challenging poor behaviour utilising the UCL Ways of Working

e)    Identify opportunities to raise awareness of supports and resources including the Report and Support tool, Dignity Advisors and UCL Ways of Working

f)    Create ‘supporting the supporter’ (those in volunteer roles) behaviour guidance to maintaining boundaries

Measuring Success:

  1. Understanding and definition of healthy behaviour shared and agreed with members of SMT
  2. Map created of volunteer roles and responsibilities across the staff community
  3. Mental health and Awareness online module created for volunteer roles
  4. Guidance shared on challenging  poor behaviour 
  5. Guidance shared on supporting the supporter in maintaining boundaries