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Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Bridgend College offers an Employee Assistance Programme called Care First which is available to all staff and their families, with access to a 24 hour hotline staffed by qualified counsellors. There is also a wide range of other topic help areas which may be beneficial.
The link is below, along with the login details:
username – bridgend
password – college
You can do an online wellbeing assessment, track your finances on an online budgeting tool, get advice and guidance from webinars and articles and register for the Zest health and wellbeing site.
Staff counselling
Counselling sessions are provided by the College through Horizons, based in Bridgend town centre. If you would like to access these services, please contact HR in confidence, who can arrange up to 4 sessions for you free of charge.
Occupational health
Bridgend College supports employees through Caer Health OH Services. Caer Health’s services are designed to protect and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of employees, assist businesses in meeting their legislative requirements and improve employee health and business performance.
Fast track physiotherapy
In Work Support is a Government support service which has a 24 hour hotline and you can also refer yourself for fast track physiotherapy. Please note there is also a drop-in clinic in the Princess of Wales Hospital from 8.30 am Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).
Workplace Wellbeing Index
We currently hold the Silver Award in Mind’s Workplace Wellbeing Index. This means that we are achieving change within our workplace by promoting and supporting positive mental health. We want to set an example to other organisations and we’re committed to supporting you in every way but with mental health still being a stigma, we want you to feel that you can address mental health by talking openly with colleagues, line managers and your HR department.
Free NUS / TOTUM discount card for staff
To say thank you for our staff’s hard work, we offer TOTUM cards. This is the new name for NUS Extra Cards. It is the #1 discount card, bringing you over 200 UK student discounts and comes with 1 year FREE ISIC unlocking over 42,000 international discounts. Please contact HR via email on jobs@bridgend.ac.uk and we can send you a link and voucher code.
InTuition Hair & Beauty
Based at Bridgend College Campus, our Hair, Beauty and Complementary Therapy departments are also run as commercial salons providing a fantastic realistic facility to clients. The salons are open to the public during term time and offer a wide range of Hair, Beauty and Complementary Therapy treatments at competitive prices. Learners in the Salon are supervised by fully accredited therapists and hair stylists. Also keep an eye out near Mother’s Day and Christmas, as there are usually special offers on for staff.
Time to change
The Time to Change Wales pledge is a public declaration which Bridgend College wants to step up to to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination.
Too often, mental health problems are treated as a taboo subject – something not to be talked about, especially at work. However, mental health affects us all and we should feel able to talk about it. We have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge, a commitment to you all to change how we think and act about mental health at every level of this organisation.
By choosing to be open about mental health, we are all part of a movement that’s changing the conversation around mental health and ensuring that no one is made to feel isolated or alone for having a mental health problem.
- As part of keeping our mental health well, we utilise the Mind’s Wellness Action plan at Bridgend College. You can either do this on your own, with your line manager or give HR a ring and we can meet you; whatever you feel most comfortable doing.
