Offering an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) helps to promote your business as a caring and professional organisation.
The Employee Assistance Programme provides your staff with up to eight face-to-face sessions with a counsellor and unlimited access to a completely confidential telephone service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The Standard Life Employee Assistance Programme is available for all your employees, irrespective of whether Core Healthcare cover has been included.
At some point we all have difficulty in coping with the pressures and strains of life, whether at home or in the workplace. All too often the results are demoralisation, loss of confidence, poor concentration and lack of sleep as well as irritability, anger and depression. Not only does this affect quality of life, but all of these symptoms directly impact the workplace, resulting in increased levels of absence, reduced productivity, low morale and poor relationships.
Work-related stress is increasingly being recognised as a source of potential liability, with courts now recognising that an employer providing a confidential face-to-face counselling service has taken steps to fulfil his duty of care for his employee's health and safety.
An Employee Assistance Programme addresses these problems at an early stage, providing expert assistance and counselling to remedy ailments that could otherwise manifest themselves in a more serious form, in situations that affect an employee's capacity to lead a balanced, stable and productive life.
The ease of access and complete anonymity provide the ideal environment for effective help when and where most needed.
