Corporate Health Standards reaccreditation

In 2019 the College achieved a Gold Award in the Corporate Health Standard, which is part of the ‘Healthy Working Wales’ programme and is the national mark of quality for health and well-being of staff in the workplace. This Award is reviewed every 3 years and the college were recently assessed to review our Gold Award status and our status has been extended until 2024, with independent assessors saying that we were one of the best organisations they had seen for engagement, impetus and overall enthusiasm for health and wellbeing.

They commented that our wellbeing provision had not only been maintained since 2019, but enhanced, and that this was largely due to the recruitment of a dedicated Wellbeing Advisor, Lorraine Evans, and Staff Fitness Coach, Christian Regis. They praised our working group and wellbeing agenda with particular emphasis on our work on raising awareness of menopause, the new Exercise Referral Scheme, Wellbeing Portal, Ironman team amongst many other initiatives, and were impressed with our plans to develop and introduce regular craft based wellbeing activities for staff which we hope to introduce across the college shortly.

To read the report please click Gower College ESC Gold Report – January 2023

If you are interested in joining the Corporate Health Standards Steering Group to help shape our wellbeing agenda, please get in touch with Sarah.King@gcs.ac.uk.