At Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, we are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our staff both inside and outside of work. As part of our employee benefits package, colleagues can access a range of exclusive discounts and offers through Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts, helping you save money on shopping, travel, dining, leisure activities, technology, and much more.

In addition to financial benefits, we offer a variety of wellbeing resources and support services designed to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, support your mental and physical wellbeing, and ensure you feel valued throughout your NHS career.

Discounts

• Blue Light Card: Blue Light Card | Discounts for NHS & Emergency Services
• Health Service Discounts: Health Service Discounts | FREE Savings for NHS & Health Staff 

Wellbeing Support

• Hapus: Home - Hapus: A Welsh mental wellbeing platform offering practical tools and resources to manage stress and boost resilience.
• Healthy Working Wales: Healthy Working Wales - Healthy Working Wales: Provides guidance and resources for creating healthier workplaces, including advice on physical and mental health.
• The Everything App: Free fitness, mindfulness, and wellbeing support for NHS staff and their families – anytime, anywhere. 

Aneurin Bevan Health Board is committed to the implementation of flexible forms of working for staff. Flexible working opportunities include part-time working, term-time working, voluntary reduced hours and job sharing.

The Health Board has a flexible approach to issues such as adoption leave, career breaks, and leave for domestic or personal reasons.

Membership of the NHS Superannuation Scheme is available to all health service employees. The rate of contribution is six percent of gross basic pay. The facility to make additional voluntary contributions through the NHS Pension Scheme is also available to all employees.

NHS Pension Scheme

The Health Board recognises and rewards staff achievements. Individuals or teams who have made an exceptional contribution to healthcare may be nominated for a number of awards in various categories. A panel of experts assesses the nominations. Awards range from training bursaries – to certificates of achievement.

It is important to us that you feel able to bring your whole self to work.  We actively promote a culture of equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights, both for our employees and the community we serve.

We recognise that promoting equality and human rights is key to securing the best possible experience for our employees and leads to the best life chances and health outcomes for our community.  We have made a commitment to support a human rights-based approach to the way in which we work.  This means that human rights principles and standards are made real in practice.

The five key principles are:

• Putting human rights principles and standards at the heart of policy and planning
• Ensuring accountability
• Empowerment
• Participation and involvement
• Non-discrimination and attention to vulnerable groups

Occupational Health Department is a strictly confidential advisory service, independent of management, established to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of our employees. The service is based on the latest evidence and aims to ensure both our current and future workforce are physically and psychologically fit to undertake their role.

It also aims to ensure that the working environment does not adversely affect employee’s health. The service endeavours to deliver impartial occupational health advice to all employees of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

To achieve this, we have a team of highly qualified Occupational Health staff who consistently lead the service collectively and with compassion. This enables a model of continuous improvement to drive our services in order to maximise efficiency, effectiveness, capability and capacity.

The range of services we currently offer are:

• Advice on rehabilitation and redeployment
• Advice on managing health issues in the workplace
• Management of contamination injuries e.g. needle stick injury
• Access to physiotherapy for musculoskeletal problems
• Pre-placement health assessments
• Immunisation / vaccination programmes for protection at work
• Identification of workplace hazards
• Health surveillance for exposure to hazardous substances
• Advice on managing accidents / work related illness
• Advice on suitability for early retirement on the grounds of ill health
• Advice on disability issues
• Health and Safety advice
• Eye sight tests for display screen equipment users
• Healthy life style advice
• Advice and information on outside agencies who may be able to help further

Additional information on the on skills and role development for occupational health nursing can be accessed here.

The Health Board has its own nationally accredited management training programmes. The selection of available courses provides a range of training events from outdoor development centres to formal in-house lectures. The management programmes are aimed at all levels of staff from supervisory grades to senior managers and clinicians. The range of programmes supports the trust’s commitment for the provision of a well-managed, customer focused service.

The Health Board also offers a wide range of training and development opportunities for professional and ancillary staff, including clinical training, NVQ training, IT training and health and safety training. A comprehensive programme of one-day personal development workshops provides ongoing development for staff who want to improve knowledge of a specific area without undertaking an extensive programme.

The Health Board has developed close working relationships with local colleges and universities and is happy to advise or support staff wanting to pursue higher academic or postgraduate qualifications.

Postgraduate medical centres are located at the three acute hospital sites which host multi-disciplinary training in a range of specialities as well as providing specific teaching for doctors in training.

The Health Board is committed to its “No Smoking” policy designed to provide a smoke-free environment for non-smokers whilst encouraging health promotion to patients, staff and visitors.  Staff who wish to give up smoking are encouraged to visit the Occupational Health Service where help and advice is freely given.

The Health Board actively promotes the Welsh Language. Training opportunities are available for staff wanting to learn Welsh. Sign language is also promoted and training readily available.

The Health Board encourages applications in Welsh and that interviews in Welsh are supported if required.

Aneurin Bevan University Health board is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to attract people with ambition and talent, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. The Health Board works hard to create an inclusive and fair workplace for our staff. Our LGBT friends’ scheme is a really powerful statement of this. The scheme sends a strong signal to LGBT employees that inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

The chair of the LGBT Advisory Group said “We ensure all staff feel free to bring their whole selves to the workplace. We believe that this helps them build strong working relationships with colleagues, to perform to the best of their ability and offer the best possible patient care”.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a member of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme and takes part in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index each year.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is proud to support the Armed Forces and has a range of activity in place to support Reservists, Veterans, Cadet Adult Volunteer Forces and the spouses and children of serving personnel.

Armed Forces Covenant:

• ABUHB is signed up to the Armed Forces Covenant and is proud to hold the Silver Employer Recognition Award. We are actively working to secure the Gold Award.

Defence Recognition Employer Award:

• The Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) encourages employers to support defence and inspire others to do the same. The scheme encompasses bronze, silver and gold awards for employer organisations that pledge, demonstrate or advocate support to defence and the armed forces community, and align their values with the Armed Forces Covenant.
• ABUHB is currently holds the Silver Defence Recognition Employer Award and has recently submitted an application for the Gold Award

Reservists Careers with ABUHB:

ABUHB is proud to support Reservists, Veterans and Cadet Adult Volunteers to combine their Armed Forces and civilian careers.

• Close relationships with a number of local Regiments and in particular the (203) Welsh Field Hospital and (104) Regiment Royal Artillery to support a number of staff to work in duel careers in the NHS and Reserves.
• ABUHB had fully adopted the All Wales Reservists Policy a copy of which can be found here.
• We are working with a range of partners to support Armed Forces leavers to establish civilian careers when they leave the Armed Forces.
• Developing flexible working opportunities for spouses of Armed Forces personnel

Healthcare Services:

ABUHB is proud to support a range of fast track and specialised services for the Armed Forces and their families.

Further Information:

If you would like any more information about the support, we can offer the Armed Forces please contact Daniel.madge@wales.nhs.uk