building a culture where everyone belongs

The 2023 Randstad Employer Brand research provides valuable insights into the shifting preferences and priorities of the Kiwi workforce, highlighting how employers can adapt their talent attraction and retention strategies to create a more powerful and inclusive employer brand.

Delivering a strong employee experience for Hato Hone St John, means understanding and being responsive to changing employee wants and needs, offering health and wellbeing support, and underpinning this with strong leadership.

In line with post pandemic workplace trends, Hato Hone St John has adopted a more personal approach to addressing employee needs in areas such as flexible working to support work-life balance. Where possible, it’s placed more emphasis on working from home and flexible hours, allowing staff to adapt their working patterns as best suits them, with direct managers overseeing this as opposed to a more traditional one blanket rule covering all employees. While their frontline staff can’t work from home, Hato Hone St John offers various shift patterns and types of employment to fit with individual needs.

Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of their people is also extremely important to Hato Hone St John, especially as their ambulance and community workers are often in the front line dealing with crisis situations. Hato Hone St John has a range of support systems developed and delivered by their Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team. This includes a strong focus on risk management, and health support for those needing a stronger foundation of general and specific health and wellbeing in the workplace. Wellbeing support includes access to a wide range of resources and support services available via The Wellbeing Hub. On top of this, a specific peer support program has been developed for their emergency ambulance service personnel.

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