Axiom Housing Association

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Axiom Housing Associationmaking a positive
difference to peoples lives

• Sharon Clapham
• HR Manager

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About Axiom?

• Established in 1967
• Based in Peterborough and work across
  Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire
• Not-for-profit organisation
• Provide services to over 5,000 people
• Includes general needs housing, sheltered
  housing, extra care schemes, supported housing
  projects and domicillary care
• Employs 220 staff and over 40 relief workers

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Why health and well-being?

• Cultural shift and change
• Increase in sickness absence
• - 12.90 days per employee
• Commitment to being a great place to work

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Implementation of project

• Applied for funding
• Health, Work Well-being Challenge Fund
• Funding matched by Axiom
• Health and well-being group formed
• Responsible for ensuring project milestones are
  being met
• Co-ordination of all health and well-being
  activities
• Branded the project..

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Events to date

• Well-being leaflets to all staff
• Pedometer challenge
• Absence training for Managers
• Staff Survey on well-being topics
• Fruit for all staff and board members
• Competition to win sports equipment
• Well-being online forums on intranet
• Quarterly reward and recognition scheme
• Monthly health based quiz and prize

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Events to date

• Annual sports day
• Well-being checks for all staff
• Stress management training
• All staff
• Management training
• Accredited qualifications
• Well-being aspect to staff conferences
• Healthy lunch, GoMAD session
• well-being stands, music video
• and guest speaker Simon Weston

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Other initiatives

• Train the Trainer Self Care
• Walk to work week
• Health Awareness Training RSPH Level 1 2
• Funded private medical consultations to speed up
  diagnosis
• Refer all long term sick absences to Occupational
  Health
• Adaptations to work place i.e. padding around
  workstation, dictaphone, alarm bracelet

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Challenges

• Buy in from some staff
• Time to implement projects
• Measuring impact of health and
• well-being programme
• Organisational changes
• absence procedures
• Funding to continue programme

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Whats gone well

• Opportunities
• Working with other organisations
• Networking
• Professional advice and support
• Free stuff training/health checks
• Buzz from staff
• Pedometer challenge
• Focus on well-being at staff conference
• Staff and family sports days
• Team Building events
• Top 100 Challenge

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Outcomes

• Staff empowerment
• Monthly well-being activity
• Badminton and walking clubs
• Board Commitment
• Funding commitment to well-being
• Partnerships
• DWP, BiTC, Peterborough Live Healthy Team,
• MIND, Active Workplaces, DIAL, Sense

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Outcomes

• IiP Gold
• Accreditation
• Sunday Times
• Top 100
• Company!

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• 50 Reduction in sickness absence since
  commencement
• of project in 2010

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Whats happening now?

• Signed up to the Governments Responsibility Deal
• Broadening health and well-being initiatives to
  our residents
• Healthy Conversations
• Outside Gym
• T Cs committing well-being into Axioms
  employee terms

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Whats happening now?

• Delivering Chair Based exercise sessions
• Weekly Xbox Challenge
• Mental health awareness training
• And to create a bit of fun we are due to launch
  .

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our Smoothie Bike!