National University of Singapore – Large Employer – Awards 2024
Awards Winner, 2024
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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:
- Wellness Unit at the University Health Centre to look after general employee physical health;
- Health and Wellbeing Unit to look after employee mental health & wellbeing;
- Healthy Campus Initiative to drive a culture that values healthy living;
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Compulsory departmental level psychosocial risk assessments to reduce and manage employee’s exposure to psychosocial risk factors.