UQ Wellness Ambassador network
We're looking for more staff volunteers to be part of the UQ Wellness Ambassador network.
The UQ Wellness Ambassador network currently includes a diverse group of staff volunteers with a passion for health and wellbeing.
About the network
The goal of the network is to engage our colleagues and workplaces by promoting and initiating wellbeing activities to enhance health and wellbeing at UQ (local, UQ Wellness and UQ community initiatives).
We do this by facilitating health and wellbeing awareness, education, and engagement across both local and UQ-wide channels. UQ Wellness Ambassadors are passionate about health and wellbeing. They work to encourage active involvement, and promote awareness of, university wellness initiatives.
What ambassadors do
As a UQ Wellness Ambassador for your area, you can have a profound impact on how UQ does wellness. You can actively contribute to the promotion of health and wellbeing in a variety of ways, including:
- liaising between your organisational area and/or regional campus and the UQ Wellness program
- communicating and distributing information about UQ Wellness programs and activities that support good health and enhance quality of life
- supporting and endorsing health initiatives by personal participation
- initiating and/or encouraging local area wellness initiatives
- creating opportunities to include discussions about health and wellbeing at staff meetings.
Ambassadors are encouraged to promote wellness in all areas: physical health, psychological wellbeing, lifestyle factors, and organisational engagement (community).
Benefits
- Receive first-hand information about UQ Wellness activities and opportunities.
- Be a healthy role model.
- Expand your knowledge of health and wellness.
- Play an important role in improving the wellbeing, morale and culture of your local area.
Become an ambassador
To express your interest in becoming a UQ Wellness Ambassador, please email UQ Wellness at wellness@uq.edu.au.