Wellbeing services from Aviva

What it is

Developed with guidance from mental health professionals, the digital Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health offers bite-sized videos to help your client's line managers identify signs and symptoms of poor mental wellbeing among team members. 

The toolkit is available to both insured and uninsured line managers. 

How it helps

The toolkit can help your client's line managers feel more confident in holding appropriate and supportive conversations with team members, so they can help address mental wellbeing concerns before they become more serious.

The benefits

Helping an employee with poor mental health to stay in work or managing a successful return to work after mental health leave, is critical. The toolkit provides key information and guidance for line managers on the reasonable adjustments and adaptations which could be made to support their team members.

Line managers play an important role in supporting an organisation's mental health and wellbeing, but they need to look after themselves too. The Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health gives them valuable information on how to manage professional boundaries while supporting their team and how to respond to their own mental health needs.

Please be aware that this service is not intended to offer personalised medical advice or replace established mental health care pathways. It supplements existing channels by offering an advice and support framework for line managers, helping them to support colleagues who may be experiencing mental wellbeing concerns which are presenting within the workplace.

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If you have any questions about the Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager or email our Sales Support Team at groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

With Get Active, insured employees can get discounts at over 3,000 health and fitness clubs, online workouts and a variety of other products and services to support a healthy lifestyle. 

The benefits of regular exercise could mean a fitter, healthier and happier workforce. In turn, this could lead to increased employee engagement and productivity.

How it helps

Employees can improve their wellbeing with discounts on a variety of products and services to help them get active and keep healthy. From health and fitness club memberships, at-home fitness and online workouts, to a range of other products and services that can enhance a healthy lifestyle, there is something for everyone. 

Cancer Care with Get Active

Employees can benefit from savings on products and services that can help make a small difference if they or someone close to them is living with cancer. Cancer Care with Get Active provides them with access to discounted products and services that can help with the daily living adjustments a cancer diagnosis and treatment can bring, as well as offers on services and experiences that may enhance quality time spent with family and close friends.

So, whether they're looking to improve their current health and wellbeing, show someone their support, or they just want to feel more like themselves, there’s a choice of specially arranged products and services to help.

Please note: the sign-up process for some offers, such as health and fitness clubs, means employees will enter into a binding contract. This may include conditions such as minimum term and monthly fees. It is important that employees read the terms and conditions relating to their offer and/or chosen health and fitness club carefully.

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If you have any questions about Get Active, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager, or email us: groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

The Stress Helpline offers insured employees the chance to talk in confidence to trained counsellors about issues they feel are causing them stress.

How it helps

Provided by Care first the helpline can be a good place for your client's employees who need help with personal or work-related stress issues. 

Stress carries potential risks for businesses, such as increased absenteeism, lower productivity, and low levels of morale. The Stress Helpline offers insured employees the chance to talk to accredited counsellors about issues that are causing them stress, from money to family to relationships and everything in between.

Talking and sharing can be the first step in helping to work through problems and resolve them, aiming to achieve the best outcome for employees and employers.

The Stress Helpline is available 24/7 to members aged 16 or over.

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If you have any questions about Stress Helpline, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager, or email us: groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

Losing someone is difficult and those left behind can struggled to cope. Provided by Care first, the Bereavement Helpline offers emotional and practical support from qualified bereavement counsellors to your client's employees. And if an employee passes away, their immediate family can use the service to help them cope with their loss.

How it helps

Coping with the death of a loved one or employee is difficult. Through the Bereavement Helpline, employees and their family members can talk with qualified bereavement counsellors, who can offer:

• practical and emotional support 
• help with funeral arrangements, and 
• information on dealing with probate, including referrals to specialist organisations for support

The Bereavement Helpline is available 24/7 to members aged 16 or over.

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If you have any questions about Bereavement Helpline, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager, or email us: groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

Grief Encounter is a leading bereavement charity in the UK, supporting children, young people and their families after the death of a parent or someone close.

How it helps

Grief affects everyone uniquely. For children and young people, grief is life changing. That's why Grief Encounter offers a wide range of services to help children and their families navigate through their pain, isolation and confusion. This includes:

• 1:1 therapy sessions with qualified bereavement specialists
• Online grief support resources, useful guides, and practical tools, created by grief professionals
• Residential weekends, group, and remembrance workshops
• Family Fun days
• Grief Relief Kits containing age-appropriate resources, including storybooks, a journal, and workbooks
• In-school support for children and young people
• A free, nationwide telephone service with support from our Bereavement Support team
• A specialist team to care for the most complex cases of grief, including targeted therapies such as sleep and creative therapy professionals.

How to access support from Grief Encounter?

Support from Grief Encounter is available via the below channels:

Call 0800 802 0111 to speak to one of our Bereavement Support team. Lines are open weekdays 9:30-3pm

www.griefencounter.org.uk

grieftalk@griefencounter.org.uk

This is a professional and confidential service.

Registered charity number: 1175837.

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If you have any questions about Grief Encounter, please get in touch with your  Account Manager, or email our Sales Team at groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

Good mental health is important in a workforce.

We want to help your client's employees when things become too much. If an employee is experiencing stress, anxiety, or poor mental health, they can find it difficult to get back on track.

Aviva can help employees and line managers manage and improve their mental health by giving them access to helpful information, including videos, articles and advice.

How it helps

To help employees look after their mental health better, we asked an expert clinician to help us produce a series of short videos.

Each video is only a few minutes long and deals with a different aspect of mental health. Watching these videos can help employees identify and find out more about common mental health problems. They can also learn techniques to help improve mental wellbeing.

A supporting guide is available with each video which summarises the key messages.

Your clients can use these videos to support their own wellbeing strategy to help their employees - and their business - stay in tip-top health.

The benefits

Effective workplace mental health support strategies can help improve employee engagement, reduce absenteeism for stress-related illnesses and make good businesses better places to work.

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If you have any questions about Aviva Mental Health Guidance, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager, or email our Sales Team at groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

We know a cancer diagnosis can be life-changing in many ways: physically, emotionally and financially.

We're here to help your client's employees through their cancer journey as much as we can. To help you support your employees during a difficult time, we've brought together all the details of our support services on one hub, so it's easier to find useful information, helpful advice and where to go for more help. 

How it helps

We work alongside our partners, Macmillan Cancer Support, to offer expert support to employees living with or affected by cancer.

Because cancer can affect people's lives in so many ways, we'll do our best to give employees the support they need.

Macmillan Cancer Support offers tailored and trusted information to help with the physical, emotional and financial effects of cancer through diagnosis and beyond.

The benefits

To help your clients understand more about managing cancer in the workplace, we've worked with Macmillan Cancer Support to put together a guide that highlights different areas they need to think about. It covers topics from understanding cancer to how it may affect someone at work, from talking about cancer in the workplace to supporting employees caring for others with cancer, and much more.

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If you have any questions about Aviva Cancer Care Support, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager, or email our Sales Team at groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

Stress and worry can take a toll on wellbeing, wherever it comes from. The Wellbeing Library is an online library of useful content, hints and tips - including guides and tools.

How it helps

In the Wellbeing Library, 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.

How to access the service

For clients with the Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace app, their insured employees can access the Wellbeing Library content within the app. For non-insured employees or clients without Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace, we have made the Wellbeing Library available as an online resource.

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If you have any questions about the Wellbeing Library, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager, or email our Sales Team at groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com

What it is

Wellbeing Training is an increasingly sought-after tool for supporting employee health as part of an overall wellbeing strategy. To ensure that they have access to the training they need – and at a time that suits them – we’ve partnered with our existing suppliers to deliver a broad range of topics. And all the training can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your client's businesses.

How it helps

Training is a core part of a wellbeing strategy. Whether it’s run in-line with an awareness day, or throughout the year, providing training for your clients' employees gives them the resources to help improve their overall health.

Webinar Calendar

We also run a calendar, which provides access to the most popular wellbeing topics for you and your employees at no extra charge.

Managers can learn from professionaly run courses

No two workforces are the same, so our trusted suppliers can tailor most solutions to match your client's needs. We offer a wide range of solutions to help strengthen the physical and emotional wellbeing of employees. These training courses could become part of a valuable workplace wellbeing programme.

What are the potential benefits of this service?

• Transform the company’s culture
• Stand out from the crowd
• Improve employee health and wellbeing
• Create a great place to work
• Enhance employee engagement
• Reduce healthcare costs

How clients access the service

Your clients have direct access to our trusted suppliers which are available through their Employer Hub. This allows them to speak to the supplier themselves, working out the best training for them. During this conversation, the supplier will be able to advise on the costs involved. The costs payable for the training courses are normally classed as a ‘business expense’. This is based on our understanding of current tax law and practices, but please be aware that tax law and practices could change in the future. We would recommend that your client’s seek professional advice from their own tax advisers.

The courses delivered by our trusted partners are typically provided at discounted rates.

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If you have any questions or would like to find out more about Wellbeing Training, please get in touch with your Aviva Account Manager. Alternatively, you can email our Sales Team at groupprotectionsalessupport@aviva.com