NUS aims to achieve the following health and wellbeing goals:

• Vision – To be a global practice leader in health and wellbeing, shaping compassionate and thriving communities
• Mission – To educate, equip and restore – one connection, one conversation, one intervention at a time.

To do so, NUS believes the responsibility to care for the wellbeing of staff requires a whole-of-organisation approach, and thus strategic moves were made to allocate resources and delegate accountability beyond HR functions:

1. Wellness Unit at the University Health Centre to look after general employee physical health;
2. Health and Wellbeing Unit to look after employee mental health & wellbeing;
3. Healthy Campus Initiative to drive a culture that values healthy living;
4. Leaders are held accountable for their employee wellbeing through Wellbeing KPI metrics and balance score cards.

NUS’s initiatives are driven by data and research findings:

1. Programmes are organised using the WellNUS framework, which systematically categorizes staff needs based on their current state of wellbeing – thriving, facing challenging times, or returning to work – and identifies appropriate resources for them.
2. Annual staff wellbeing survey, with analyses of results to identify gaps and assess impact of our mental health initiatives and strategy at both the organisational and departmental level.
3. Compulsory departmental level psychosocial risk assessments to reduce and manage employee’s exposure to psychosocial risk factors.