Legal & General Group Protection has partnered with Spectrum.Life to bring its mental health and wellbeing services to all existing and new group risk clients at no extra cost.
Spectrum.Life is a digital mental health and wellbeing platform provider which aims to remove wellbeing complexity and evolve the traditional employee assistance programme (EAP) concept.
It will be available across group life assurance, group income protection and group critical illness schemes.
As part of L&G’s wellbeing framework, the solution will combine traditional EAP services, such as in the moment support to employees and their immediate family 24/7, 365 days a year.
This includes access to counsellors, bereavement counselling, legal and financial information, a medical helpline, manager consultations and critical incident support.
Support is also available from accredited counsellors or psychotherapists, as appropriate, along with a range of evidence-based therapeutic models, and traditional short-term solution focused therapy such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
The Spectrum.Life platform also offers a digital gym, self-guided mindfulness and meditation, nutritional wellbeing pathways, mental health eLearning and online shopping discounts.
James Walker, head of product and proposition at Legal & General Group Protection, said: “Our overriding goal is to help thinking in the market with regards to removing fragmentation and unnecessary complexity in wellbeing across all our products and, in doing so, put wellbeing in the hands of as many employees as possible.
“Our new partnership with Spectrum.Life is directly aligned with that goal, helping bring together all the pillars of wellbeing in the one place, plugging everything into both our expert in-house clinical support and existing services where appropriate, such as Virtual Clinic, launched last year as part of group income protection.
“Through simplification and connectivity, we hope to encourage day-to-day usage – in a preventative and proactive way – thereby helping realise value for both people and business.”
Stephen Costello, CEO of Spectrum.Life, (pictured) added: “Combining our wellbeing and technology expertise with Legal & General’s outcomes-focused framework we can provide full-service, integrated solutions, all in the one place; not only helping more employees and their families, but also helping those tasked with managing wellbeing in the workplace.”
