Skills for Work: Wellbeing and Work
Wellbeing and work is a 20 hour Skills for Work unit about what wellbeing at work means, managing workload and work-life balance, building positive working relationships, handling disagreements and knowing when to ask for support. It is one unit that learners combine with others into a Skills for Work, or Skills for Life and Work, Award, Certificate or Diploma, from Entry 1 to Level 2. Digital demand is low: no criterion asks for technology. Digital links sit in balancing screen time within work-life balance, planning tasks with a to-do list, choosing how to communicate at work, an optional digital wellbeing charter or poster and finding online support.
- Awarding body
- WJEC
- Level
- Entry Level 1 to Level 2
- Guided learning hours
- 20
- First taught
- September 2027
- Amount of digital work
- Low
How this unit is assessed
- Entry Level (Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3): Four learning outcomes (what wellbeing means at work, managing workload and work-life balance, positive working relationships, dealing with work problems and asking for help), with assessment criteria at Entry 1, Entry 2 and Entry 3. Evidence goes in a portfolio, internally assessed by the centre and externally quality assured by WJEC. 20 guided learning hours, Skills for Work group.
- Level 1 and Level 2: The same four learning outcomes, with assessment criteria at Level 1 and Level 2. Evidence goes in a portfolio, internally assessed by the centre and externally quality assured by WJEC. 20 guided learning hours, Skills for Work group.
Skills that use Evaluating and improving digital content
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Designing a wellbeing charter or poster
At Level 2 learners outline a simple wellbeing initiative covering the four elements of wellbeing in the World Health Organization definition. Suggested activities include a mini workplace wellbeing charter and posters, which learners could make with presentation or design software, though a paper version meets the criteria equally well.
DCF: Creating digital content, Evaluating and improving digital content
Getting pupils ready
- Year 7
- Pupils make a one slide poster of three tips for feeling calm at school, adding a heading, an image and short bullet points.
- Year 8
- Pupils design a class wellbeing charter in a word processor with a heading for each rule and a picture that matches it.
- Year 9
- Pupils create a digital wellbeing poster for a workplace staff room, choosing fonts, images and layout for adult readers and explaining their choices.
Show the specification wording and the DCF statements
Where it is in the specification: Level 1 and Level 2, learning outcome 1, assessment criterion 1.3, page 7; suggested activities, pages 13 and 14
“design a mini 'workplace wellbeing charter' that includes WHO's 4 strands”
Progression step 3
I can use a range of software to select, produce and edit a range of multimedia components for a purpose, such as:
- text and images, e.g. format text (bold, underline, italics, highlight); insert and edit text boxes; columns; use refine tools (spellchecker, find and replace); word wrap; crop; alter size and shape; alter images; add effects; trim and split sound and video clips; transitions; onion skin
- presentation, e.g. page orientation; animations; transitions; remove and alter images; use background; use action buttons to create hyperlink; embed objects.
I can ensure my output is appropriate for specific purposes.
Progression step 4
I can select and use a variety of appropriate software, tools and techniques to create, modify and combine multimedia components for a range of audiences and purposes, such as:
- text and images, e.g. explore and use effectively image manipulation techniques; explore and use appropriately the many aspects of document layout; use animation, video and audio effects such as echo, tempo, envelope, layering, frame rate, key frames
- presentation, e.g. use design tools; adapt themes and colours to suit the purpose; create master templates.
Good to know
- Unit codes run from Entry 1 to Level 2: "Unit Codes S667E1 S667E2 S667E3 S667L1 S667L2" (Unit overview, page 3).
- No digital resources are needed: "Assessment of this unit should not require any specific resources." (Resources required for assessment, page 16), and the unit is delivered in "standard classroom environments" (page 15).
- Evidence can be digital. Sources of evidence include "recording of practical demonstrations of evidence, such as role-plays or discussions" and "annotated photographic evidence of sorting/matching activity" (Sources of evidence, page 14), and the specification says the portfolio "is not limited to paper-based materials" (Section 4.1, page 18).
- Writing is kept light: "extended written work is not required unless appropriate" (Sources of evidence, page 14).
- AI rules apply to the portfolio. AI misuse includes "Using AI to complete parts of the assessment so that the work does not reflect the learner's own work, analysis, evaluation or calculations." and "Failing to acknowledge use of AI tools when they have been used as a source of information." (Section 4.6, page 21).
- Suggested assessment tasks are optional: "These tasks are not mandatory." (Section 4.1, page 18). Every digital activity in this file is a teacher's choice, not a requirement.
- Appendix A of the specification maps this unit to Literacy only among the integral and cross-curricular skills, and does not tick Digital Competence (Appendix A, page 30).
Links with other qualifications
The pack names Customer service, Fairness and inclusion in the workplace, Rights and responsibilities in the workplace, Understanding the changing labour market and Working in Wales as closely related Skills for Work units, and the Skills for Life unit Mental health and wellbeing covers stress, wellbeing and seeking help from a personal angle. Ideas about wellbeing, stress and support also sit in GCSE Physical Education and Health and GCSE Health and Social Care and Childcare, and the employer and employee view of motivation and productivity links with GCSE Business. On the digital side, the screen time and online behaviour points connect with the citizenship work in GCSE Digital Technology and the Online safety unit.
Source: WJEC Wellbeing and work unit delivery and assessment pack, read with the WJEC Entry 1 to Level 2 Skills for Life and Skills for Work specification, approved by Qualifications Wales, teaching from September 2027 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2026).