Health and Wellbeing

The Life Rooms Bootle, on the Hugh Baird St. Winifred’s Campus, is an exciting partnership that originated in January 2019 to support an holistic approach to community support, student well being, mental health awareness and social prescribing.

Due to the global pandemic this partnership has never reached its full potential and g the ability to broaden its impact on the wider community has been considerably reduced.

We are now looking to revitalise the partnership and have begun to develop a vocational pathway between The Life Rooms and Hugh Baird College offering a person centred approach to employment and personal development. Long term unemployment in the area is ranked the 5th highest out of 8 core cities (July, 2017) with 0.6% of the population aged 16-64 years (1,820 people) claiming job seekers allowance for more than 12 months.

This offer will allow Mersey Care service users, Hugh Baird students and the local community to access the following:

• One to one person centred employment, volunteering and further education advice

• Work experience opportunities in customer service and health and social care

• Employability course supporting development in CV writing, communication and interview techniques.

• Access to support from Pathway

Advisors including; o Housing advice o Benefits guidance o Mental health support

• Access to The Life Rooms Learning offer including o Understanding mental health conditions o Social interaction o Physical health session o Healthy eating o Music o And much more

The overall approach to the offer in relation to the partnership is to create a route for personal development tailored around ability, experience, support needs and desire. The Pathway Advisors will offer individuals supportive and measured experience plans, guided by a dedicated and experienced vocational and college team.

The pathway outcomes will be focused around access to partners both internal and external offering;

• Volunteering opportunities in Mersey

Care, third sector organisations and more.

• Employment and work experience, in various businesses

• Further education opportunities focused and supported by Hugh Baird.

Back to Business:

Staff Health Screening

As businesses begin the process of reopening after lockdown, many organisations will be wondering how they can ensure a safe and reassuring work environment for their staff. Employers must plan for any return to the workplace in a way that cares and supports their workers.

It will be vital for businesses to also consider the long-term impact the pandemic has had on employee’s mental health as well as physical health. Many workers will have experienced new levels of anxiety about COVID-19 as well as the challenges that have been practised due to long-term social isolation. As things start to go back to normal, some workers may also struggle with the significant change that society has seen, and the familiar workplace routines could feel very different. The good news is that Randox Health offer innovative COVID-19 health screening packages which, depending on your workplace requirements, can safeguard all employee’s health and wellbeing.

Partnering exclusively with the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, these health screening programmes will allow companies to demonstrate their commitment to their staff and help a wide variety of industries get back to business by ensuring the highest level of safety. Randox, a partner of the UK Government’s National COVID-19 Testing Programme, have multiple testing offerings for businesses, including:

• PCR (diagnostic) testing that is performed using a throat/nasal swab with same day or next day results

• Antibody testing that is performed on a patient blood sample taken by the

Randox Health team

• Antigen testing that is performed using a throat/nasal swab with results available within one hour If your business operates internationally, Randox Health’s PCR and Antigen testing also offer employees appropriate certification for travel.

To find out more about a tailored ‘Back to Business’ Testing service for your organisation, email David.Hallendorff@RandoxHealth.com or phone 0800 2545 130

£90

per test

£200

per test

Entry Health Awareness Screening Medium Health Awareness Screening

35 tests covering key health areas including personal health measurements, body composition, heart health and diabetes risk

Additional:

1-2-1 consultation with health expert £20

100 tests covering key health areas including personal health measurements, body composition, heart health, diabetes risk, full blood count, iron status, kidney health, urinal analysis, liver health, bone health, thyroid health and prostate health

Additional:

1-2-1 consultation with health expert - £30

COVID-19 Antibody test can be added to either package for additional £30

www.randoxhealth.com