MindWell in partnership with Mindful Employer Leeds
MindWell: How to improve wellbeing in your workplace A guide for employers, people managers and HR managers in Leeds.
MindWell: Finding mental health training for staff A guide for employers, people managers and HR managers in Leeds.
MindWell: Support for someone struggling with their mental health at work A guide for employers, people managers an HR managers in Leeds.
MindWell
What are the possible signs that someone is struggling with their mental health?
How can I talk to someone about their mental health?
Finding support in a mental health crisis
Mindful Employer
Mindful Employer Leeds 10 Steps Toolkit is a free online resource designed to help you increase awareness of mental health at work, challenge stigma and build skills and create a sustainable approach to supporting employee wellbeing.
Mindful Employer: Keeping well at Work: a practical guide for staff experiencing stress, anxiety and depression.
Mindful Employer: Charter information and application form
Carers Leeds
Carers Leeds: An employer’s guide to the benefits of developing a carer friendly workplace
Mind
Thriving at Work report (2017): the Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers (2017): an independent review into how employers can better support the mental health of all people currently in employment including those with mental health problems or poor wellbeing to remain in and thrive through work. Commissioned by the Prime Minister.
Mind: How to implement the Thriving at Work mental health standards in your workplace
Mind: Wellness Action Plan – Guide for managers: a WAP is a personalised, practical tool we can all use to help us identify what keeps us well at work and what support we would like to receive from our manager to boost our wellbeing. To be used alongside the Mind: Wellness Action Plan – Guide for employees. Mind also provides a working from home Wellness Action Plan.
Mind: How to take stock of mental health in your workplace
Mind: An introduction to mentally healthy workplaces
Mind: How to promote wellbeing and tackle the causes of work-related mental health problems
Mind: How to support staff who are experiencing a mental health problem
Mind Workplace Wellbeing Index is a benchmark of best policy and practice. Taking part will help you find out how you are doing well and where you could improve your approach to mental health in the workplace.
Mind: Mental Health at Work Commitment guide for employers during coronavirus
Mind: How to manage your wellbeing while furloughed
Mind: Coping with redundancy during the coronavirus pandemic
Mind: Coronavirus and your wellbeing
People Managers’ Guide to Mental Health – CIPD in collaboration with Mind
Mental Health at Work: website curated by Mind, the mental health charity, and funded by The Royal Foundation as part of their Heads Together campaign. Designed to help you find information and resources.
Federation of Small Businesses in partnership with Mind: Taking care of business: resource for small businesses.
Mind’s Blue Light Programme has information for staff, volunteers and employers in the emergency services to help you and your colleagues to cope during the pandemic and beyond. You can find resources for each branch of the emergency services on the Mental Health at Work website.
ACAS
ACAS: Supporting mental health at work
ACAS: Challenging conversations and how to manage them
ACAS: Managing bereavement in the workplace – a good practice guide
ACAS: Mental health resources during the coronavirus
NHS
How are you feeling? NHS toolkit is an easy-to-use resource developed with NHS staff to enable staff to talk openly and regularly about emotional health.
Headfirst NHS toolkit is a free mental wellness resource designed for the ambulance service.
Government resources
Department of Health: Advice for employers on reasonable adjustments
Gov.UK: Equality Act 2010: information and guidance on the Equality Act.
Health matters: health and work report (Public Health England, 31 January 2019) provides actions that employers can take with regard to health and work.
Gov.uk: Workplace wellbeing tool can help you build a business case for your wellbeing programme.
HSEACAS: Talking Toolkit: preventing work-related stress offers practical help with talking about stress at work.
Other resources
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Guidance: Workplace health
Money and Mental Health Policy Institute: ‘Too ill to work, too broke to not’: report considering the cost of sickness absence for people with mental health problems.
The Prince’s Responsible Business Network has produced a mental health toolkit for employers with Public Health England to support positive mental and physical health in the workplace.
The Workplace Wellbeing Charter: completing the Workplace Wellbeing Charter makes a real commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of your workforce.
Survey Monkey offers a free basic template for employee surveys.
Action for Happiness offers ideas and resources including a monthly calendar.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) – Making the business case for mental health
Citzens Advice: help for work-related issues.
What Works Wellbeing: workplace and employment resources
Business Disability Forum: COVID-19 resource hub
Mental Health at Work: Isolation and coronavirus toolkit for supporting yourself and your staff
Mental Health at Work: Workplace conversations in challenging times resources
Mental Health First Aid England: supporting your mental health while working from home
Mental Health and Money Advice
Staff Check-In campaign aims to reduce staff suicide and promote a wellbeing culture by normalising the conversation around suicide and mental health as well as providing training, resources and signposting to support.