Domiciliary: Facilitating flexibility

Health and wellbeing have increasingly become a priority since the start of the pandemic because lockdown restrictions prohibited activities that positively influence personal welfare.

As limitations on socialising have lifted changes to work routines are here to stay, which employers and employees are adapting to.

A wellbeing strategy was developed by the OutsideClinic after a company-wide survey asked what staff would like to see from their employer.

Lynda Oliver, head of human resources at the domiciliary provider, tells Optician the company wanted to understand what staff needed and shout about why OutsideClinic is a great place to work.

‘The last year was so tough. Coming back to work, everybody’s life had changed. For example, if you were furloughed, you came back to a different world of work. People think very differently about work now,’ she explains.