Mind Workplace

What is Mind Workplace?

Mind Workplace improves business practices by providing training and consultancy for employers on mental health. Mind Workplace will enable your company to assess how mentally healthy it is for all your employees, customers and clients and then enable you to make the changes necessary to ensure you are maximising your company's potential.

We believe in a preventative approach to mental health problems in the workplace. This involves promoting mental health awareness, reducing stigma around seeking help, helping staff develop resilience, effective sickness management and emotionally intelligent management supervision.

We help organisations build on existing good practice such as employee assistance programmes and occupational health support to develop a proactive and systematic approach to promoting good mental health in the workplace.

Healthy and happy workplaces are likely to result in less absence, increased productivity, greater customer satisfaction and thereby healthier mental well being for all.

Why does your company need Mind Workplace?

• In the past five years, employers have cited stress as the number one reason given by employees who take time off work. 
• The overall annual cost to employers, including time off work and lost productivity, is nearly £26 billion (Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health). 
• One in four people experience mental health problems in any five year period therefore a significant proportion of business employees and customers will be experiencing mental health problems. 
• People with mental health problems are often overlooked by interventions aimed at improving accessibility of business services to people with physical disabilities.
• Most firms vastly underestimate the problem but they could make big savings with a few simple steps.
• Healthy and happy workplaces are likely to result in reduced absence, increased productivity, greater customer satisfaction all leading to higher profit margins.

How can Mind Workplace help your company?

Mind Workplace draws on Mind's 60 years of experience successfully working with and employing people with mental health problems. Mind ensures that the needs and experiences of people with mental distress drive all that we do and our extensive networks are fundamental to this work. This enables us to provide your business with high quality training and consultancy services.

• Evaluation through talking to staff and assessing your policies, practices and procedures for their impact on the mental health of your business.
• Development of bespoke training, tools and resources that will help you manage and understand mental health more effectively. We promote a spirit of openness around mental health and enable staff to engage more effectively with existing services your company provides.
• Deliver the developed resources and training across your organisation.
• Review, monitor, update and evaluate your progress with the support of Mind Workplace

What next?

Contact us today on 020 8519 2236 or at workplace@mind.org.uk to arrange a meeting.