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 combined with our current experiences in working with organisations in the UK.

Online resources:
· Mental health in the workplace report
· Working for healthier tomorrow report
· Mental health: the last workplace taboo

The experiences of people with mental distress drive all that Mind does and our extensive networks are fundamental to this work. This puts Mind in the unique positions to provide your business with high quality training and consultancy services.

Consultancy

Mind workplace's highly-qualified and experienced team is available to provide advice on a range of workplace mental health topics, including:

The development and evaluation of mental health related policies and procedures
By talking to people in your business we are able to provide an independent perspective of mental health in your business.
The development of tools that will support staff that are currently experiencing mental health issues in your organisation
Assist in the creation and facilitation of mental health support / buddy groups
Advice on increasing mental health disclosure in your workplace
Advice on management strategies including return to work issues and reasonable adjustments
Workplace mental health mediation and support
Advice on the adoption and monitoring of an employee assistance program
Assistance in cutting through the crowded variety of products and services that are available around mental health
Evaluation - the Mind workplace team are able to review, monitor, update and evaluate solutions provided.

The business case for addressing mental health at work

These sessions are designed to raise the issue of mental health in the workplace with senior executives and presents the basis for a business case for tackling the most common mental health problems in the workplace.

Thirty to sixty minute session
Participant numbers unlimited
Designed for executive and senior management.

Presentations and industry briefings

Senior members of the Mind workplace team are able to provide presentations at conferences and also industry briefings on the topic of the importance of mental health in the workplace. Presentations focus on the promotion of early interventions and recognition of the signs and symptoms of mental health and also include how to reduce stigma in the workplace.

Mental health marketing

The implementation of a mental health promotion campaign in your business will help reinforce the key messages from the work you are doing around mental health in your organisation. It is also great for your employer brand and will encourage staff to recognise mental health and will assist in acting to reduce mental health stigma in your organisation.

Mind workplace is able to assist your internal mental health campaigns in the following ways;

Providing content for intranet pages with information on mental health and links to relevant mental health information on the mind website.
Co-branded workplace posters to reinforce key messages and to reduce mental health stigma
Co-branded newsletter articles and updates - topics could include: exercise and depression, postnatal depression, sleeping problems and depression, and reducing stress. We will provide all content*
Play mental health anti stigma TV campaigns and adverts in the workplace in lunch rooms / conferences or at wellbeing events. (think TV - Shift - Time to change)
Organise "Wear Something Blue to Work Days" or a "mental health pub quiz" to raise awareness among staff of mental health.
Physical activities - lunchtime session to promote the benefits of exercise for physical and mental health*
Supporting events such as World Mental Health Day (10 October) and national Mind week (9-16 May 2009)

* We are able to work with your own wellbeing teams to deliver this.

Support for individuals

Mind workplace's In Work Support is an innovative project run by Mind and supported by Access to Work to support employees in work.

This service is currently fee free for organisations in London within the M25.

In Work Support provides a confidential in work support service for those experiencing any form of emotional difficulty or mental distress.

We are able to support individuals by;

One to one and confidential face to face support
Ongoing telephone support
Support staff to deal with adjustments to your hours or tasks
Plan and organise a safe and gradual return to work
Provide mediation support
Work with the employer and the employee to design suitable reasonable adjustments.

What next?

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