The wellbeing of our staff is of paramount importance to us as it cultivates healthy and motivated staff as well as promoting pupil wellbeing and attainment. School staff juggle numerous demands and responsibilities every day and it is important that they receive the emotional and practical support that they need to be able to fully support our students. We aim to provide a working environment that promotes the wellbeing of all employees and encourages everyone to have ‘Good Days at Work’.
Reducing Workload
As far as possible, we aim to reduce teacher workload. As part of United Learning we benefit from 8 INSET days a year and a number of these are put aside as teacher preparation days to support staff in managing their workload.
Being a part of United Learning and the Cambridge Cluster means we also benefit from the collaborative planning that takes place. This means there are centralised resources that our staff can use as a starting point for their lessons, reducing the time spent on creating lessons from scratch.
Your Wellbeing
Through United Learning we provide advice and resources to support staff with:
- Mental Wellbeing - access to Wellbeing Action Plans, toolkits and information from Mind mental health charity
- Physical Wellbeing - discounted gym memberships, Challenge 2020 scheme, Cyclescheme
- Confidential Care
- Wellbeing Case Studies - recent and historical case studies on staff wellbeing
Employee Assistance
As part of the United Learning Cambridge Cluster, all staff can access the Employee Assistance Programme through Zurich. This service offers all staff:
- Counselling
- Family caring services
- Career coaching
- Debt and money management
- Legal information and advice
Perks
Sometimes it is the little things that can make a big difference to your wellbeing. At Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology we support this by providing staff with tea and coffee at break time and by coming together as a whole staff at different points through the year.
Through the Cambridge Cluster we have discounts available to all staff to different venues and facilities in Cambridge. We also have access to Perkbox, providing all our staff with discount codes and free items and products.