Communications
For more information about World Mental Health Day, please see the health and wellbeing website's news page.
Free seasonal flu vaccinations are now available for all council staff, in particular frontline staff who are in regular, direct contact with the public and service users. Having a flu jab is safe and helps protect you from serious illness as well as helping us protect the most vulnerable people that we support.
There is a limit on the number of vouchers available so please only order a voucher if you will definitely use it. Staff eligible to receive a free vaccination from their GP should use that service rather than the staff scheme.
Please use these links below to apply for a vaccination voucher either individually or for a group of up to ten colleagues. To avoid delays please check that all data is entered correctly. You can choose to receive an email or SMS text to take to a Boots pharmacy.
Employees who do not have email or SMS access, or are unable to ask a colleague to print off the voucher for them, should telephone the contact centre on 0121 704 6000.
Vouchers are valid until 31 December 2019.
Individual: https://eservices.solihull.gov.uk/SMBCWebForms/?Form=Flu
Group: https://eservices.solihull.gov.uk/SMBCWebForms/?Form=Flu_Multi
For more information contact Kim Westman on 0121 704 6922.
An employee wellbeing event will be held at the Bluebell Centre in Chelmsley Wood on Monday 14 October, between 1.30pm to 4.30pm. All are welcome.
Employees are invited to drop in between these times to find out more about the wellbeing initiatives currently available at the council, as well as providing an opportunity to meet all of our benefit providers in one location. Some of the stands will include:
- Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund – corporate health cash plan
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Mental health first aid
- Vectis cards
- Everyone Active leisure centre gym membership
- Travel passes
- Nutritional advice
- Solihull Carers Stand
The event will take place in The Loft at the Bluebell Centre, West Mall, Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, B37 5TN.
Please book some time in your diary to come along and attend.
For more information contact Claire Cooksey in HR on 0121 704 8136, or email claire.cooksey@solihull.gov.uk.
Eat well, move more is a healthy lifestyles programme, commissioned by public health, for children aged 4-16 years. The aim is to improve health through increased physical activity, increased intake of fruit and veg, better knowledge of a healthy lifestyle and how to sustain this.
The children who would be involved in the Eat well, move more programme would be those teachers/parents/carers feel there are concerns over their health such as being overweight/underweight, lacking nutritional knowledge, fussy eaters or inactive. The programme is designed to sensitively target these hard to reach groups, therefore we can run programmes for a select group of children or for the whole class as the focus is a healthy lifestyle.
Spaces available for schools during the autumn term or spring term contact elizabeth.knowles@solihull.gov.uk to reserve your space.
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