Staff news and information
The Wave Awards launch 2024/25
This year’s Wave Awards are now open for entries.
This is our annual celebration of your work where we recognise the outstanding contributions and achievements of teams across the business.
The Wave Awards give all employees the chance to shine and be recognised for their hard work, innovation, and dedication throughout the year.
Whether your project has helped save money, helped accelerate delivery of the mission or changed the way we solve problems and overcome challenges at Sellafield entirely, we want to hear about it!
You can find all the details you’ll need about categories and how to enter in this year’s awards brochure
Entries are open from Monday 25 November 2024 and will close at 5pm on Wednesday 8 January 2025.
How Sellafield can support your welfare
Here are just some of the ways that Sellafield can support your welfare:
- Access CareFirst, our employee assistance programme – it is available for all employees and your families and includes enhanced external offerings around physical and mental health and wellbeing.
- For peer support, reach out to one of our 18 employee-led networks.
- If you need specific arrangements in place to help you at work, speak with your line manager about creating a Reasonable Adjustment Passport.
- Access our Inclusion hub
Sellafield Employee Assistance Programme
CareFirst, our employee assistance programme, gives every Sellafield employee access to legal advice, money guidance, confidential counselling, information and help sheets and many other services.
Support via CareFirst includes:
- Expert advisors, trained by Citizens Advice able to provide comprehensive answers and assistance on a wide range of issues which affect daily life.
- Care First Counsellors: 24/7 support, advice and counselling on any workplace or personal issues. All Care First Counsellors are professionally qualified and accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
To access the programme visit Sharepoint and search for ‘Employee Assistance Programme’.
DigiCare
As part of our Employee Assistance Programme, as a Sellafield employee, you can access the Digicare+ Workplace app.
This provides you with access to:
- A free annual health check
- Mental health consultations
- Nutritional consultations
- Digital GP service
- Second medical opinions
See below for details of how to access DigiCare
How Sellafield supports employee mental health
There are several ways that Sellafield can support your mental health as an employee, including:
- CareFirst, our employee assistance programme
- Speak to one of our 200+ mental health first aiders
- Speak to your line manager
- Access our Inclusion Hub via Sharepoint
- We urge anyone experiencing mental health issues or suicidal ideation to access support by calling 0800 015 5630.
Sellafield’s Mental Health Champions
Throughout the business we have trained mental health champions. These are employees who:
- Understand the issues that relate to mental health.
- Deploy a range of practical skills that can be used on a regular basis, including the ability to spot the signs and symptoms of mental health issues.
- Interact effectively with people who may be experiencing mental health issues or emotional distress.
- Guide (with confidence) those who may be suffering mental health issues towards sources of help and appropriate support.
- Raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with mental health and promote early intervention enabling more effective recovery and positive mental health.
Sellafield EDI Hub
Employees who have access to the Sellafield Ltd IT network can access our EDI hub. This contains a lot of information, advice and guidance on a range of subjects including mental health.
Mental health charities
Rethink Mental Health has set up an online hub filled with practical support and information for people living with our supporting people with mental illness.
The Mental Health Foundation have a similar site as well as Mind.
BBC News
The BBC have their own mental health guidance pages.
NHS – Thrive Wellbeing App
Thrive Mental Wellbeing is used and recommended by the NHS and is a digital tool for use by individuals and in the workplace for preventing mental health conditions by building resilience.
The app provides support through a range of options as shown below. More details can be found on the Thrive Mental Wellbeing website.
How your colleagues at Sellafield can support your welfare
- Employee-led networks
- Mental health first aiders
Employee-led networks
We have 18 employee-led networks who can provide you with support:
- Armed Forces Network
- Chronic Illness Peer Support Network
- Deaf, Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Network
- Domestic Abuse Contacts
- Dyslexia Network/Assistive Technology
- Early Careers Mental Health Support (ECMHS) Network
- Enduring Mental Health Conditions
- Family Network
- Gender Balance Network
- Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs) Network
- Nuclear Autism Support Network
- oneLGBTQ+ Network
- REACH Network
- Sellafield MenoHub
- SL ADDers (ADHD) Network
- STAMMA Nuclear
- Stronger Together Cancer Support Group
- Workplace Chaplains
Details of how to contact these groups can be found on Sharepoint.
Health app
Every Sellafield Ltd employee can now access new health services through the Digicare+ Workplace app.
This is part of our employee assistance programme and gives every Sellafield employee access to:
- a free annual health check
- mental health consultations
- nutritional consultations
- digital GP service
- second medical opinions
The app also links to information about useful NHS services and gym discounts.
The idea is that by having this service, it will help support the health and wellbeing for every employee as we complete our purpose. It will help to prevent ill health with early detection of health-related matters, and the appropriate interventions where needed.
There’s more information and details about the service in the employee brochure below or visit our internal ‘Diversity SharePoint’ page.
To download the app, follow the guidance below:
- download the Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace app from the App Store or Google Play (mobile data charges may apply).
- open the app and click ‘Register’.
- you should then see the terms and conditions, which you’ll need to accept.
- enter your PIN 902551 and click ‘continue’. You’ll be redirected to the ‘registration details’ screen.
- on first registration, you’ll be asked to register by confirming the following:
- email address
- mobile number (you’ll need to have this device when registering as your verification code will be sent to this number)
- date of birth
- click ‘continue’ to submit the above details. You’ll be sent a 6 digit verification code to the mobile number you previously supplied.
- once the mobile verification is complete, you’ll be asked to create a new password.
- please enter your personal details to complete your registration to the app.
- you can now complete your medical profile.
- your registration is now complete and you’ll have access to the app.
Our enterprise strategy
We have now published our latest enterprise strategy.
Within the document, we show how our strategy flows from our manifesto and our purpose, and how we’ve updated our 3 strategic objectives to include sustainability, a focus on pace and the recognition that value is more than just financial.
It also reflects the progress we’ve made on site, as well as the changes in our broader environment and shows how we’ve updated our strategy to reflect that.
We know that showing and explaining the breadth of what we do can be difficult, but the document is designed to make that easier – for our people who are delivering our strategy, and for our communities and stakeholders.
Read our Enterprise Strategy here
We’ve also taken the opportunity to update our company overview video: