Wellbeing benefits, financial support, and psychological services
5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This CIPD Level 5 video for unit 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work explores assessment criteria AC 3.1, focusing on how organisations can identify and implement wellbeing initiatives tailored to their specific needs. The video examines key wellbeing benefits and support services, including financial health checks, debt advice, counselling provision, and psychological support through specialist service providers, alongside practical initiatives such as cycle to work schemes, flexible working arrangements, and workplace gym facilities. By watching this video, you'll understand how to evaluate diverse wellbeing offerings—from health insurance and medical checks to emotional and relationship support—enabling you to develop comprehensive wellbeing strategies that address both the physical and mental health requirements of your workforce.
What this video covers
Covering Assessment Criterion 3.1 of the CIPD Level 5 unit 5OS07 – Wellbeing at Work, this video examines the breadth of wellbeing benefits, financial support mechanisms, and psychological services that organisations can draw on when identifying initiatives appropriate to their workforce's needs. The video works through a range of concrete schemes, including cycle to work arrangements structured around salary sacrifice, flexible and compressed working patterns, workplace gyms, subsidised healthy eating provision, and dietitian access, considering in each case the practical factors that determine whether a given initiative will be genuinely used by the people it is intended for.
Financial wellbeing forms a substantial portion of the video's subject matter, with attention given to the relationship between money worries and workplace performance, and to the range of employer-provided support options such as access to independent financial advisers, debt counselling, pension guidance, and workplace savings schemes. The video also covers Employee Assistance Programmes, known as EAPs, examining how they deliver confidential counselling via telephone, video and face-to-face sessions, and how specialist services — including bereavement support, trauma counselling, and provision for employees affected by domestic abuse — extend beyond general counselling to address circumstances requiring particular expertise.
A thread running through the video is the importance of matching the choice of initiative to the actual demographic and circumstantial profile of a workforce rather than applying a generic portfolio of benefits. The video draws a contrast between, for example, the financial education needs of a younger workforce carrying student debt and the pension planning priorities relevant to older employees, and similarly weighs on-site gym provision against subsidised external memberships or group fitness activities as ways of reaching a broader proportion of staff. These distinctions are central to how the video approaches AC 3.1 and the question of organisational fit.
Assessment Criteria 3.1
Identify wellbeing initiatives in relation to an organisation’s needs.
Indicative Content
Wellbeing initiatives such as health promotions and facilities, health checks/insurance, private medical insurance; wellbeing benefits, such as cycle to work schemes, flexible hours, healthy eating and dietary advice, workplace gyms, financial health checks and debt advice, counselling, workplace risk assessment, emotional and relationship support through specialist service providers etc.
What You'll Learn
Video covering: Wellbeing benefits, financial support, and psychological services
About 5OS07 – Wellbeing at work
This unit explores the importance of wellbeing in the workplace and the relationship with people practices and organisation strategy. The design and development of effective wellbeing programmes is examined to meet people and organisational requirements
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