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EAP Counselling Services
Helping Employers Through the Recession
As most employers look for ways to boost morale, improve productivity and cut costs, EAPs and 24/7 counselling helplines are increasingly seen as a positive, relevant and cost-saving response to the recession. Advice for managers, redundancy support and debt counselling are amongst many recession-relevant issues covered by EAP services.
Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) and employment advice helplines are reporting significant rises in call rates as the recession begins to bite. All EAPs are tracking an increase in redundancy-related management referrals, general workplace stress and calls on personal issues, especially worries about debt.
How EAPs Benefit Employers:
EAPs are regarded as particularly valuable to organisations in times of economic hardship. Benefits to employers from EAP provision include:
- An authoritative source of advice for HR & line managers
- Better management of stress-related sickness absence
- Counselling & advice for staff facing redundancy
- Support for stressed employees and "redundancy survivors"
- A tangible employee benefit that promotes staff wellbeing
- Mediation and a reduction in employment tribunals
- Litigation risk management for employers facing stress-related claims
Work Stress Management - Our EAP Partner
In-Equilibrium works in partnership with Work Stress Management Ltd. (WSM), one of the UK's leading providers of EAP services. WSM was established in 2002 and manages EAP services for public and private sector organisations employing from 50 - 15,000 employees. WSM offers flexible EAP packages to suit all types of organisation:
Information on the full range of EAP services available, plus contract options and sample usage reports are available on this download: EAP White Paper - A Guide to EAP Services
Choose an EAP Pricing Model:
1. Fixed Cost & Unlimited Usage
Capped costs and budgetary control
2. Pay as You Go EAP
Minimal fixed costs and simple fee per usage pricing
Choose EAP Features:
Employers also select the EAP elements they want to include and can choose from:
- Telephone counselling - unlimited number of counselling sessions
- Free-phone 24/7 help-desk, (0800 numbers for UK and RoI)
- Counselling all work-related issues
- Counselling on all personal, family and domestic issues
- Critical incident de-briefing and trauma support counselling services
- Support covers family members and your employees
- Advice line for managers and support for HR and OH teams
- Legal helpline -provided by fully qualified lawyers
- Face-to-face counselling on a pre-paid or a pay-as-you-go option
- UK-wide network of quality assured BACP registered counsellors
- Management referral to face-to-face counselling
- Advice, information and sign-posting to specialists and experts
- Debt counselling - telephone specialist debt counselling and advice
- Printed employee EAP communication literature to all employees
- e-material for intranets - access to employee assistance web resources
- EAP launch programmes and manager's briefing presentations
- Detailed and clear management reporting and usage analysis.
EAP Prices
Work Stress Management offers some of the most competitive and quality EAP options now available in the UK. WSM has cut all of its EAP rates for 2009. Efficiency gains and improved economies of scale have enabled WSM to pass on cost savings to employers. Fees have been reduced across all EAP options and models - an unlimited usage telephone counselling EAP is now available for under £3.00 per employee per annum.
EAP Quotation
You may be surprised at just how affordable a quality EAP service actually is. Contact WSM for a highly competitive EAP quotation and information on the range of EAP options available to suit your organisation.
For information and a bespoke EAP quotation contact:
Steven Stanbury
020 7708 5000
For EAP Resources in Pdf format click on the links below
Work Stress Management Ltd.
Leaders in EAP Solutions - Critical Incident Response
Work Stress Management Ltd.
6 Artichoke Place, London, SE5 8TS
Website: http://www.workstressmanagement.com/