What is a Workplace Health Needs Assessment?
The Workplace Health Needs Assessment (WHNA) is an evidenced based tool that helps you understand the health of your workforce. Completing the WHNA will help you to understand what areas of your workforce's health and wellbeing:
- Is currently good
- Requires improvement
- Needs prioritising the most
The WHNA is free to all organisations based within the Leicestershire County Council boundaries.
How does it work?
The WHNA works like an anonymous staff survey. By asking your staff to complete the WHNA, they will answer questions on a range of topics including mental and physical health, workplace culture, financial wellbeing and more. To help you increase staff uptake, we also provide you with a number of communication resources including a branded poster.
Once you have closed your WHNA to responses, all responses will be aggregated and presented to you in a report that will give you:
- An overall view of the health and wellbeing of your workforce
- How your results compare to the rest of Leicestershire & Rutland
- Recommendations and ideas for actions going forward
A member of the Healthy Workplaces Leicestershire team will go through this report with you, to help you better understand the results.
If your organisation has signed up to the Healthy Workplaces Leicestershire Accreditation scheme, it will be at this point where we begin to agree your goals and targets for the first stage of the accreditation.
It has been great to work with the team at LCC – they are professional, knowledgeable and extremely helpful and supportive. The process has been straightforward and we would recommend other organisations to take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to best support their teams
Why should your organisation do a WHNA?
Employee health varies hugely between organisations, even across Leicestershire.
Completing the WHNA gives you a great starting point in understanding where you should target your efforts and resources to improve employee health the most effectively. Not only does this mean you'll make the biggest impact by focussing on the topics that need it most, but you'll also be more efficient whilst doing it.
How much does the WHNA cost?
The below costs are for organisations based within the Leicestershire County Council boundaries. If you are based within Rutland, visit Healthy Workplaces Rutland or if your organisation is based in Leicester City or outside of the county, please contact us for more information.
Arrange a quick conversation about your organisation and how to get started with your free Workplace Health Needs Assessment.
