Providing water services throughout the Severn Trent region
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. It’s a yearly event that shines a light on the importance of looking after your mental health and is organised by the Mental Health Foundation.
This year, the focus is loneliness. Something all of us will experience at some point in our lives.
In this article we talk about what loneliness is and what the Severn Trent Services team is doing to help support people.
Continue reading “It’s Mental Health awareness week”This is Severn Trent, this is what we all strive towards, this is our goal, and this is what we supply.
Following on from the articles earlier this year looking at bulk water treatment and chlorination, the concept of “Wonderful on Tap” incorporates not only those two physical procedures, along with others. These include leak detection, metering, sampling, testing, flushing, cleaning and surveying.
Continue reading “Wonderful On Tap”Look at the photo. I have circled an item which is causing a blockage in the main foul drains running behind a row of houses. This was causing an interruption to facilities for multiple properties and had been this way for a long time.
Continue reading “What is that blockage?”Introducing Carole Manning, a key account manager working in the Commercial Water Services team who provide water and waste water services to multiple sectors. In fact, we have a whole section dedicated to this awesome team – Find out what the Commercial Water Services team do here.
Continue reading “Severn Questions with Carole”Here at Severn Trent Services, we believe our people are our greatest asset! Whether working in the field or the office, operations to technology to sales, from new starters to directors, our people make our business thrive. That’s why we’ve launched The People Project, an initiative designed to maximise employee experience across our broad portfolio of business streams.
Continue reading “The Launch of the People Project”Did you know that March is National Bed Month?
While we’re not in the traditional ‘bed’ business, our Oren Environmental team helps to look after the largest portfolio of single-owned reed beds in Europe, covering an area of over 300,000 square metres.
In this article, we mark National Bed Month by sharing some information about our favourite kind of bed, the reed bed.
Continue reading “Not Just a Bed of Roses”Introducing Adam Carter. Adam is the Business Improvement Team Manager and is responsible for the continual evolvement of all the IT systems in our Severn Trent Searches Business.
Continue reading “Severn Questions with Adam”At Severn Trent Services we love to support and celebrate International Women’s Day. Severn Trent currently ranks fifth in the UK for gender equality (Equileap’s 2021 Gender Equality Global Report) and it’s incredibly important to continue championing it in our workplace. We would like to introduce you to Laura, Sarah and Kate who want to tell you about their experiences in working for us.
This year’s theme is #BreakTheBias which aims to have a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. More information can be found on the official website at – https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
Have you ever sat in a field and held a team meeting? Do you have access to a toilet near your desk? Can you change the view out of the window every day?
Continue reading “The mobile office of a Severn Trent field technician”Today, we wanted to write to you about ESG or to give it its full and rather snappy title, Environmental and Social Governance. But first, a few questions: what is ESG, why is it important, how is it measured and what are we doing about it in Severn Trent? If you already know the answers, you are ahead of the game, so well done. If you don’t know the answers but are keen on finding out more, don’t worry, it’s where the majority of us are.
Continue reading “Environmental and Social Governance (ESG)”
