Be Well
Through our global health and wellbeing service, Be Well, you’ll have access to a range of tools, resources, and support. These include a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme with support and resources for the country you are in, fitness classes, live mindfulness sessions, sports and social clubs, volunteering opportunities and an inspirational speaker series. All of this is gathered conveniently on our online wellbeing portal.
We also encourage colleagues to share their ideas and suggestions to inform our approach and gather insights from colleague surveys, listening groups and our Wellbeing Index to help us shape our focus and priorities so we can support colleagues in the areas that matter most.
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It starts with…
A health check
After receiving support from his family, friends and people leader, Jaimal realised that speaking out and incorporating exercise into a positive routine has been key to improving his mental health.
Hear from Jaimal
A conversation
Events in Wendy’s family life led to everything changing, including what she needed from work. Luckily, one conversation led to her receiving the support she needed to keep her whole team on track. Read Wendy’s story.
Hear from Wendy
Future thinking
Anita is always planning for the future of her family. At Barclays she found a workplace where the tools were already there to allow her to save and prepare. Read Anita’s story.
Hear from Anita
Mind
We are signed up to the Mental Health at Work Commitment, and have a range of workplace wellbeing initiatives in place. These are managed through our dedicated Wellbeing Team, with overall accountability for delivering workplace mental health initiatives sitting with our Global Head of Health Services and Wellbeing, ensuring colleagues have access to clear, informative and up-to-date resources.
We encourage everyone working at Barclays, or thinking about joining us, to tell us what support and adjustments they need to be their best at work. These adjustments can be short-term arrangements or more long-term.
We equip people leaders with disability confident training and support, and encourage everyone to feel able to disclose non-visible conditions, and promoting awareness of different disabilities. Our mental health awareness e‑learning is assigned to all colleagues, with additional mental fitness modules available. We also gather insight from people leaders to make sure they feel supported and confident in supporting colleagues’ wellbeing.
Get specialist, confidential support when something is affecting your physical or emotional wellbeing. Support varies by region to meet local needs, and we continue to shape it based on colleague feedback. For example, in the UK we also provide a child and family wellbeing programme alongside the core EAP offer.
You can discover a network where exclusive mindfulness sessions are led by colleagues, for colleagues, across our global network.
Body
Staying fit and healthy is an important part of looking after your wellbeing. That’s why our resources offer advice on making healthy choices on sleep, exercise, nutrition and fitness. We offer a range of resources and benefits to help you feel your best.
We provide a range of health checks to help colleagues. This includes remote screening tools so colleagues with hybrid schedules or different commitments can take part in a way that works for them.
We’ll help you to be your best at work by offering adjustments, such as removing barriers you might face if you have a disability, impairment, health concern or mental health condition.
As well as on-site gym access at several Barclays sites, we also offer access to wellness benefits and regular wellbeing events and experiences.
Social
From enjoying opportunities to express ourselves to making new connections, it is important that you feel valued and have a sense of belonging at Barclays. At Barclays you’ll have access to a diverse range of colleague networks and opportunities to make a difference in the communities we serve.
We have a range of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) aligned to our Inclusion and Opportunity commitment of creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. Our ERGs amplify the experiences of different groups, and they actively play a part in shaping our wellbeing strategy and plan.
From volunteer days to fundraising, you can make a meaningful impact to the communities we serve by taking part in citizenship activities.
And if you’re passionate about sports, arts, culture or anything in between, you can join one of our social or sports clubs. These have always been a foundational part of life at Barclays...dating as far back as 1892 when the Barclays Dramatic Society was founded.
Financial
We know that good financial wellbeing positively supports other aspects of our wellbeing, including our mental and physical health. We’re committed to helping you manage your financial wellbeing, providing you with educational resources, including tools for debt management, budgeting and planning, protection against risks, and more.
If you need financial support, whether that’s dealing with debt or buying a house, you’ll be supported with practical guidance and signposts to additional support resources, as well as access to our confidential Colleague Financial Assistance team (UK) to support financial difficulty.
A key aspect of financial wellbeing is paying you fairly for the work you do. Fair pay doesn’t just mean paying the right salary – it means awarding the right incentives, providing the right benefits and giving the right support in the workplace as well.
Workplace
We pride ourselves on providing the tools and support so you can bring your whole self to work. We want colleagues to be able to talk openly about any sensitive wellbeing topics, so that they can get the support they need when they need it. We are also working towards accreditation for ISO45003 which is the first global standard for mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. This will help us to support best practice around the mental wellbeing of colleagues.
You’ll be encouraged to look out for others and make that a priority at work. Practical resources are available to help everyone get the best results when working together.
We bring this to life through our wellbeing service and include global speaker events for all colleagues where clinical experts and high-profile professionals (such as Olympic champions) present inspirational guidance.
We provide the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly – empowering you to work in a way that suits your life, wellbeing and mental health, while also enabling us to better service the needs of our customers and clients.
We work closely with our people leaders to create an environment where health and wellbeing are valued and supported. We offer dedicated training that helps them lead in ways that protect and enhance colleague’s mental and physical health
Be you, be valued, belong
A commitment to Wellbeing
Looking after ourselves, and each other, is the foundation that underpins our personal and professional success. It is important that every Barclays colleague feels empowered to focus on their physical and mental wellbeing, and we provide a range of supportive resources, assistance and benefits to help them do so.
C.S. Venkatakrishnan – Group Chief Executive
#WorkingWithCancer
We’ve always sought to provide high-quality assistance and benefits to those living with cancer. We are now proud to take the #workingwithcancer pledge, reiterating our ongoing commitment to supportive provisions such as access to healthcare, time off, flexible working, and wellbeing support when it is most needed.
