Support

Engaging with and listening to our people

We actively engage with our people on an ongoing basis to shape the development of our support and reward packages. We hugely value their input and want to ensure our initiatives are relevant to their needs and challenges.

Our employee forum is the main mechanism we use to directly gather feedback from our people, ensuring open channels of communication should anyone wish to raise an issue.

Pastoral Care

As part of our Health and Wellbeing strategy, we have a full-time Pastoral Care who is based in our Craigavon HQ. Stuart Argue is a permanent workplace caregiver dedicated to supporting the wellness of our colleagues on a confidential basis, neutral from company operations. Our Pastoral Care Manager is an experienced confidante who listens to any issues our people may be experiencing and signposts them in the right direction to receive further advice if needed, as well as offering them immediate support.

Stuart has held almost 2,000 sessions with our people in the past two years.

Supporting our work force through our ‘All4Health’ programme

As a proud member of the Almac Group, Galen’s comprehensive employee health and wellbeing offering aims to provide support for our people in the areas that really matter to them.

Our health and wellbeing initiatives are driven from the very top of the organisation and decisions are made by a team that includes Almac’s Board of Directors as well as the Senior Executive team.

To focus our activities in this area, we developed a Health and Wellbeing strategy which was formally launched in 2019 and was reviewed and enhanced in 2022 based on employee feedback. This plan is supported and endorsed at Board and Senior Executive Level.

Our strategy aims to create a proactive culture which prioritises prevention and early intervention. It promotes and enables self-care by educating and supporting employees using a wide range of initiatives and programmes.

Our global wellbeing efforts are led by a specialised team, focusing on employee health and wellbeing in our policies and activities. We value employee input and industry insights in our strategy. The All4Health programme offers regional portals for online events, benefits information, helplines, health apps, and more. From this portal, we gather sign-ups for our suite of in-person initiatives throughout the year and give our people access to resources such as:

The very latest health news and information
A wellbeing calendar highlighting Almac’s events, awareness campaigns
Resources to help, identify, train and support the wellbeing of our people
Helplines and webchats covering a range of specialist issues enable direct communication with experts who can help
Health apps, health checks and other digital wellbeing tools
Bookable workplace wellbeing services

Some All4Health Initiatives

Active April

During Active April, All4Health provided lots of opportunities for employees to enhance their mental, social and physical wellbeing. Our employees embraced their competitive side by taking on the Almac Games, while trying out free exercise classes.

Working Carers Network Group

To enhance the support we currently give to working carers, we formed the ‘Working Carers Network Group’ where members can meet others in a similar situation, share experiences, offer mutual support, and hear from speakers.

Retirement Workshops

Or retirement workshops are targeted to help staff plan for this major life change, providing tools on how to reconnect with interests, find new passions or hobbies and spend quality time with loved ones and overcome new challenges. The aim is to make it a healthy and successful transition in all aspects of your life, without focusing solely on pension and financial planning.

Minding Your Mind Month

All4Health’s ‘Minding Your Mind Month’ aimed to help employees on their mental health fitness journey, by providing useful toolkits and meaningful events.

Would you like to discuss how Galen can help you?

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