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

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 Quotation

Please contact Alastair Taylor on 0131 476 5027 for pricing and information on the range of EAP options available to suit your organisation.