I am happy with the balance between my work and home life
Health Awareness campaigns receive positive feedback from staff at AVDC. The aim of all of the campaigns is to raise employee’s awareness and educate to potentially avoid future health issues. Campaigns delivered to date include the topics of Breast Cancer Awareness, Prostate Cancer Awareness, Healthy Eating, Men’s Health week, Healthy Heart, National Stress Awareness Day, Back care and Bowel Cancer Awareness. In November 2011 AVDC delivered a week long campaign “Stress Awareness week”. Stress Awareness week will incorporate additional training for manager, information for staff on topics such as personal resilience, diet and exercise Tackling stress. AVDC has with the support of unions, introduced an individual stress assessment to pro-actively address individual absences due to stress, which enable an action plan to be developed to identify causes of stress and facilitate a return to work. HR officers have provided support and guidance to managers in these situations. AVDC also offer counselling which is a popular benefit.