Rajesh  Verghese, Employee welfare officer

Rajesh Verghese

Employee welfare officer

BACS Riyadh Metro

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Medical and Psychiatric Social Work
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Employee welfare officer at BACS Riyadh Metro
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2016

o Enhancing the total wellness of the employees through Counseling and welfare initiatives.
o Develops and provide comprehensive social and welfare services, including counseling and
coaching to employees.
o Providing professional counseling support and stress management to Employees, thereby
improving their functioning ability
o Welfare policy formulation. (Instrumental in creating an emergency exit procedure document)
o Effective implementation of COVID -19 protocols/best practices and initiatives
o Mental health preventive programs.
o Employee engagement activities
o Handling the grievances and absenteeism management among employees.
o Grievance investigation /reports /documentation.
o Performance improvement support
o Conducting mental health assessment for acute stress and depression
o Liaising between the management, employee (family/ Consultant Psychiatrist/ Embassy officials)
o Multi-disciplinary team approach.
o Supporting Welfare Audit
o To assist emergency response team to support employees with psychiatric emergency (suicidal
threat, deliberate self-harming tendency, aggression, and violence at workplace)

o Providing pro-active measures to avoid untoward incidents at workplace due to stress or
depression
o Liaising with various Embassy’s and to maintain cordial relations (National day celebration for
cultural diversity etc.)

o Annual Activity Calendar
o EAP documentation (Monthly)
o Chief CSR Coordinator for Riyadh region
o Providing documentation and relevant reports to the management on regular intervals
o Organizing /Coordinating Welfare activities for the employees. (Food committee, sports,
recreation accommodation cultural and other wellness activities)
o Publishing newsletter about the welfare activities and wellness initiatives -Quarterly.
o Conducting general induction sessions for the new joiners. (company policy and law of the land)
o Conducting training sessions /awareness sessions to managers and supervisors on mental
health/depression
o Conducting awareness sessions on Prevention of bullying, harassment and violence at workplace.
o Considering the impact of COVID19 on employees, I was instrumental in setting up a COVID CALL
CENTRE and we were able to support many of our employees. Info sharing/best practices and
managing fear among workers (Total management)
o Mentoring Youths from Palestine Education For Employment ( US based NGO : Education For employment )

social counselor (Asst.Manager) at ROBERT BOSCH business and engineering solution Pvt ltd
  • India - Coimbatore
  • September 2009 to July 2016

Conducting employee counseling, stress-management programs
V Empowering associates to have an optimistic attitude towards their Work/ life
V Enhancing their emotional intelligence through counseling and Psycho Education, adhering to
ethics of psychological counseling
V Liaising between the family, Psychiatrist, and the organization
V Member of Multi-disciplinary team to handle emergency situations at workplace
V Identifying work related issues and supporting effective conflict resolution within the team
V To motivate and support employees who are under PIP (Performance Improvement plan) in
association with HR/business partners.
V Conducting and Identifying the necessary training programs for the associates (stress
management)
V Enabling Manager Program to sensitize and to equip the Managers to handle associates undergoing
emotional and psychological imbalance
V Providing necessary assistance to overcome the various addiction tendencies of the associates
(alcohol, Nicotine, pornography, etc.)
V Coordinating, monitoring, auditing EAP services (employee assistance programs by the service
provider)
V Providing necessary legal information related to marital law and Law related to prevention of
sexual exploitation and harassment at workplace (Member of Internal complaint committee-quasi
judicial forum to handle prevention of sexual harassment at workplace. (POSH)
V Imparting the positive attitude and energy to the associates to achieve maximum productivity
and efficiency
V Providing documentation of all activities regarding consulting social service & employee assistance
program
V Networking with NGOs dealing with women rights and support groups.
V Providing guidance related to CSR activities to various departments.
V Employee social action forum -Change Agents. (Employees social responsibility)

Education

Master's degree, Medical and Psychiatric Social Work
  • at St. Thomas CollegeCalicut University
  • January 2004

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Bachelor's degree, Labor and Taxation
  • at Government Law CollegeCalicut University
  • January 2002

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Specialties & Skills

Staff Training
Conflict Resolution
Welfare
Grievance Resolution
Employee Counseling
APPROACH
CALL CENTER
COACHING
CONSULTING
COUNSELING
COUNTER TERRORIST CHECK
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DIAGNOSIS
DOCUMENTATION
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Urdu
Beginner
Malayalam
Expert
Tamil
Beginner