Paycare Testimonial – Ground and Water
“I never felt there was a hard sell or ulterior motive, nothing other than a good person, working for a good company providing help and support to others, championing the cause.”
Check out our latest testimonial – shared by contaminated land and ground investigation services, Ground and Water. ✍️
Workplace Wellbeing strategy includes days to relax and recharge
Employee wellbeing is going to be a key focus for all businesses going forward – and with time at a premium for those juggling busy work and home lives, we wanted to ensure our team took a little time out for themselves. 🥰
Take a read and find out more about our Workplace Wellbeing offering… 🙌
Ensuring everyone can access workplace perks – Paycare’s top tips
How do companies offer perks which will actually benefit their teams, without those who are working flexibly missing out? Take a read of our five ideas which can be implemented to ensure you’re on track when it comes to the future of workplace wellbeing… 😏
National Smile Month: Our Top Mouth Care Tips
Taking a proactive approach to managing your health is something we are passionate about here at Paycare, that’s why we encourage everyone to get regular check ups and consult a professional over any concerns they may have. And what better time than National Smile Month to concentrate on the health of your teeth and gums? 🦷👅
Take a read of Our Top Mouth Care Tips… 🙌
Paycare Testimonial – Preston Innovations
“The level of service has been excellent, and the staff always comment on how quickly claims are paid out once submitted. Simon Cater has been fantastic, but it doesn’t matter who you speak to, the whole team is so efficient and helpful – you know your query will be answered quickly!”
Check out our latest testimonial – shared by angling product specialist manufacturer and supplier, Preston Innovations. ✍️
E-Clinic focuses on supporting body and mind
Healthy habits and mindfulness to support the body and mind are the focus of our next free e-clinic. 🧘♀️✨
Let’s take a read and find out more… 😍
Paycare share online resources to mark Mental Health Awareness Week
One of our fantastic managers is marking Mental Health Awareness Week by sharing wellbeing resources every day. 🧠🙌
Take a read and find out how we can support you with our exclusive resources… 💻📋
Mood-boosting tips for Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week (May 10th to 16th) is an opportunity for all of us to improve our wellbeing.
We love to share helpful suggestions, so to mark the week we’ve asked the Paycare team for their top 7 tips on how to boost your wellbeing – and with this year’s awareness week theme being nature, we’ve linked them around the great outdoors… 🍃
Let’s take a read. 🥰
Paycare Testimonial – ISO Quality Services Ltd
“Because we are an SME ourselves, we felt Paycare had a similar ethos to us – we didn’t want to be members of a large faceless organisation. The cost is really reasonable and ensures our staff are happy and healthy – I know they really appreciate having a HCP.”
Check out our latest testimonial – shared by Worcester based, Business Management Consultancy, ISO Quality Services Ltd ✍️
Paycare Testimonial – ZEN Communications
“Not only is Paycare a wonderful organisation that is completely aligned with us from the perspective of being a completely people-centred business, but the services and support it offers to Zen as a business are hugely relevant – and greatly valued by us all.” 🙌
Check out our latest testimonial – shared by Telford based, strategic PR and communications agency, ZEN Communications ✍️
Discounts on luxury products to celebrate partnership anniversary
If you love Molton Brown’s luxury iconic fragrances (and who doesn’t?!) then you’ll be delighted to know we are celebrating the first anniversary of our partnership with them by pairing up for a third time. 🛀
Our Policyholders are in for a treat next month! Learn more 🙌😊
Netball partnership with a worthy goal
School children in Ghana are set to benefit from our recent Netball partnership… 🥰🏆
Take a read and find out more about our exciting news! 🤩
Presenteeism Post-Covid: Can we afford to be off work?
With 84% of us reporting we’d work while feeling unwell and the widespread disruption Coronavirus has caused to every single workplace, presenteeism is an important issue which we are keen to get employers talking about.
Let’s take a read… 🤓
Free Webinar on Grief and Trauma in the Workplace
Our Wellbeing Manager, Kerry B Mitchell has been running monthly e-clinics on different themes since Autumn 2020. The next hour-long session is at 10am on Monday 10th May and will be centred around grief, trauma and ‘Pathways 4 Support’. 🧠
Take a read to find out more information on the FREE e-clinic… 💻
Are you stress aware?
Whether it’s through exercise, sleep or spreading kindness – check out our top tips and few small changes you can make to reduce your stress levels 🙌😊
Back Pain – How you can support your employees
Back pain might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to your workplace wellbeing strategy – but when you consider the impact it could have on your staff, and your business as a whole, knowing how to prevent and support those suffering with it could make a huge difference.
Let’s take a read to find out how you can support your employees when it comes to back pain… 🙌
What is self-care?
Did you know, the benefits of self-care are INVALUABLE in improving our general wellbeing?
Our incredibly talented Customer Services Assistant, Becky, has written a poem for us to share with our Policyholders, People and Community…
Here are some top tips on how we can all learn take care of ourselves 🧡
How we can take better care of our eyes
In support of National Eye Health Week, we have teamed up with Helen Brown, Campaigns and Grants Manager at Beacon Centre, to share with you some top tips around good eye health and how to look after your eyes, all in support of National Eye Health Week!
Let’s take a look…
Maintaining relationships during the Coronavirus pandemic
How we can work on maintaining relationships with loved ones and colleagues during this time? Keeping in touch with each other has been a vital part of many people’s coping strategy, along with using technology to communicate with others. Let’s explore some more creative top tips – check them out! 🥰
Health Help on Hand with GP in your Pocket
Our much loved and much used digital doctor service (GP 24/7) is being relaunched with a new name, look and feel as MyPocketGP!
Take a read of our Blog to learn more… 🤩
Our New Healthy Habits…
It’s undeniable, 2020 really has been a tough year for everyone – but in recent weeks, there have also been lots of positives when it comes to our collective health and wellbeing…
Let’s take a read… 🥰
Sleeping Well During Uncertainty
We all know poor sleep can make us feel grouchy and lethargic the next day, but there are so many ways in which prolonged problems with sleep can impact our health.
Check out our five tips for better sleep… 😴✨
Five ways men can improve their health and wellbeing
This week, our very own Kerry Mitchell, Wellbeing Manager and Mental Health Trainer at Paycare, shares five ways men can improve their health and wellbeing during this year’s awareness week and beyond as the world adjusts to the ‘new normal’…
Take a read 👇
How to avoid Stress Eating
With COVID-19 seeing many of our eating habits changed over the last few weeks and with nutrition playing a key role in how we operate day-to-day, Laura shares her top tips on how to avoid stress eating while navigating our ways through the current living in which social distancing measures require…
4 Ways to Feel Better and Turn a Blue Day into a New Day!
In order to help brighten up your day, we share 4 Ways to Feel Better and Turn a Blue Day into a New Day, all thanks to our lovely Wellbeing Manager and Mental Health First Aid Trainer, Kerry! We don’t think they’re worth missing… so let’s start our day off right and take a look!
Keeping Those Communication Channels Flowing
Encouraging and facilitating regular communication is absolutely vital in demonstrating your support, keeping motivation going, and helping to ensure we all stay positive and mind-healthy! So, what can we do to keep in touch with each other – both as an employer or employee, but also as a friend, family member, or neighbour? Here are just a few ideas… Let’s take a read 🙂
Stay Focused on Personal Health & Wellbeing
At Paycare, people are at the heart of absolutely everything we do, which is why we want to ensure that as a Policyholder, you continue to take advantage of the wide range of wellbeing services available as part of your plan 😊
4 Ways to Reduce Anxiety
In this week’s blog, we’ve teamed up with our very own Wellbeing Manager, Kerry B. Mitchell, who shares her top 4 ways to manage, and hopefully reduce, the anxiousness people might be experiencing during the current health crisis. Let’s take a read! 🙌
Home Schooling — You Can Do It!
In our latest blog, we share some tips and tricks from our very own Wellbeing Manager (and mum of two) Kerry B. Mitchell, on how parents can manage the difficult task of homeschooling, and ensuring they protect their own mental health and wellbeing during the COVID19 outbreak… let’s take a read! 🙌🎒
Tips for Staying Active During Social Isolation
In this week’s blog, we share some simple ways to keep physically active, whilst also protecting our families, friends and communities by adhering to the rules and, importantly, staying at home. Lets take a read… 😊
Kindness the Key to a Happy, Healthy Workforce
With the UK celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Day today (February 17th), we are supporting employers to find new ways to show their teams they care. 🧡
Let’s take a read… 🥰
It’s Time to Talk – But Are You Really Listening?
Through year-round campaigning and its pivotal annual event Time to Talk, the Time to Change movement has improved millions of people’s attitudes towards mental health. With the last ever Time to Talk day taking place on this Thursday (February 4th), our Wellbeing Manager Kerry B Mitchell looks at why talking is so important, and urges employers to ensure they are really listening. 💬👂
Take a read… 🥰
Getting that Tech-Life Balance right is the focus of free e-clinic
With reliance on technology soaring during the pandemic, we are joining forces with Techtimeout to help people understand more about the potential wellbeing impacts of too much screen time.
Take a read and find out more on the latest in a series of monthly e-clinics. 🧠🙌
Light-hearted ‘Sickie Day’ highlights serious workplace problem
February 1st has been established as the day when a higher number of employees call in sick than any other day of the year, with some deemed to be doing so unnecessarily because they are not really sick – hence the name of the day.
Let’s take a read and find out how employers can recognise the very real problem of absenteeism. 🤒
Hope and Wellbeing E-clinic to counteract Blue Monday slump
January is traditionally thought of as a gloomy month – but we are working to fight against the ‘Blue Monday’ slump by hosting a hopeful e-clinic.
Take a read and let us take care of your teams Health and Wellbeing in 2021 🙌🧡
Prevention, Early Intervention and Protection – 7 Stages for an effective Wellbeing Strategy
We’ve all heard the saying: prevention is better than cure, so it should come as no surprise that an effective wellbeing strategy should be based around the three key pillars of prevention, early intervention, and protection.
Let’s take a read to find out how you – as employers – can support your staffs wellbeing… 🧡
Co-working space supported by Paycare set to launch in Wolverhampton
A co-working space for small businesses and freelancers is set to launch in Wolverhampton this week, with support from the team at Paycare.
Take a read to find out more… 🧑💻
Samaritans speaker scheduled for next Paycare Free E-Clinic
A speaker from Samaritans is set to share information about the charity with attendees at our final free e-clinic of the year 📅
Take a read and find out more about the free session… 🤩
Mental Health Stigma: Where did it come from?
Despite mental ill health being incredibly common (around one in four are estimated to experience it during any given year), there has long been a stigma attached to the topic.
So, what is stigma? Let’s take a read and find out… 🧠🧡
Paycare marks Chamber anniversary by sponsoring virtual awards
Paycare is marking a year since becoming Shropshire Chamber members by sponsoring the Virtual Business Awards.
We are supporting the Best Small Business category at the awards, set to be held on Friday 20th November.
Let’s take a read… 🥰🏆
Stress and Emotional Eating are the focus of upcoming Paycare Wellbeing E-clinic
Stress and emotional eating are set to be explored in the next free e-clinic from Paycare Wellbeing… 🧠🍏
Let’s learn more… 😍
5 Top Tips for Reviewing your Employee Benefit Strategy
It’s important to monitor and review your employee wellbeing and benefits strategy on a regular basis, updating it as staff, finances and tax benefit rules change.
So, what 5 key steps can you and your business follow to ensure that your current or future wellbeing and benefit strategy is performing at its best, and your team are getting the most value out of the benefits that you’re offering them?
Let’s take a read… 🥰
Paycare’s virtual training launched to combat spike in mental ill health
We are on a mission to support more people with their mental health through effectively training their managers and staff, and equipping them with skills to recognise those who may be struggling 🧡
Take a read and find out all about our MHFA Virtual Training 🙌
Achieving a Work/Life Balance
It’s National Work Life Week this week (October 12th to 16th) – and this year it’s more important than ever, with working from home becoming the norm for millions across the UK.
Let’s take a read and find out how you can achieve the work/life balance that works for you – all thanks to our Wellbeing Manager, Kerry Mitchell… 🙌
Back Pain – How you can support your employees
Back pain might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to your workplace wellbeing strategy – but when you consider the impact it could have on your staff, and your business as a whole, knowing how to prevent and support those suffering with it could make a huge difference.
Let’s take a read to find out how you can support your employees when it comes to back pain… 🙌
Creative project reaches more communities thanks to Paycare support
We have teamed up with another Black Country organisation to support and help inspire creativity across the region, by supporting 17 projects as part of the ‘Creative Connections’ project! 🌟
Catch up on the story! 🤩
New signage for Paycare-sponsored football team
A football club sponsored by us is proudly displaying all-new signage around its ground 🙌
Take a read… 🤓
Hospice boss joins Paycare’s Wellbeing Expert for Stress e-Clinic
The CEO of a Midlands hospice is set to join us for a free e-clinic focused around stress and workplace wellness… 🧠
Take a read to find out more. 🥰
Celebrating Black Country Chamber’s 20th anniversary!
We’d like to wish a huge Happy 20th Birthday to the Black County Chamber of Commerce…🎈🎉
Paycare sponsors West Midlands Business Expo
We are gearing up to support the health and wellbeing of businesses across the region by sponsoring a Virtual Expo this month 🌟
Take a read and find out more about the West Midlands event… 🙌
Top Tips E-Clinic for Employee Appreciation Day
You may know we have been running a series of free e-clinics – the next has been organised around Employee Appreciation Day and is a must for employers who want to find new ways to celebrate, recognise and retain their team members. 🙌👏
Take a read and find out more… 🤩
Domestic Abuse Charity needs community support
With domestic abuse rates sadly rising during the pandemic, we want to continue highlighting the need for community support 💚
The team have been long-time supporters of The Haven Wolverhampton – and our CEO Kevin Rogers is urging others not to forget those who have escaped violent home lives during the Covid-19 crisis.
Take a read… ☕
Getting that Tech-Life Balance right is the focus of free e-clinic
With reliance on technology soaring during the pandemic, we are joining forces with Techtimeout to help people understand more about the potential wellbeing impacts of too much screen time.
Take a read and find out more on the latest in a series of monthly e-clinics. 🧠🙌
Competition winners set to see top theatre shows
Before Christmas, we teamed up with WCR FM Radio to offer a special set of free theatre tickets to Wolverhampton Grand shows as part of our latest competition! Take a read to find out which performances the lucky winners get to see… 🙌👀🎭
Hope and Wellbeing E-clinic to counteract Blue Monday slump
January is traditionally thought of as a gloomy month – but we are working to fight against the ‘Blue Monday’ slump by hosting a hopeful e-clinic.
Take a read and let us take care of your teams Health and Wellbeing in 2021 🙌🧡
Co-working space supported by Paycare set to launch in Wolverhampton
A co-working space for small businesses and freelancers is set to launch in Wolverhampton this week, with support from the team at Paycare.
Take a read to find out more… 🧑💻
Paycare’s 2020 Review: A Year like no other
It almost goes without saying that 2020 has been a year like no other, and we’re sure when we look back it’ll always be remembered for the Coronavirus pandemic – but we wanted to ensure we didn’t forget the good things which we’ve all got to be grateful for, so we’ve been looking back through the past 12 months to bring you Paycare’s 2020 Review.
Take a read… 🧡
Policyholder vote to allocate Paycare charity money
With volunteering and fundraising opportunities being limited this year, we had a fantastic £3,000 of charity money to donate before the end of the year – so we decided our valued Policyholders should decide how it was spent! Find out more… 🙌
Take a read and find out how you can cast your vote. 🥰
Keep the community support going says Paycare team!
You may know that Paycare has raised more than £2.2 million to date for many good causes through various initiatives. And while 2020 has proved difficult in terms of volunteering, we are hoping to keep that community spirit alive and well as we enter the new year 🙌
Grab a cuppa and take a read… ☕🤓
Congratulations to the Shropshire Chamber Awards winners
As sponsors of the Best Small Business category at this year’s Shropshire Chamber Virtual Business Awards, the Paycare team extends its warmest congratulations to the winners and finalists. 👏
Take a read and find out who they were… 🤩