Resources

Address your stress for Mental Health Awareness Week with this toolkit full of tips, advice and tools to help you reduce the impact of stress on your wellbeing at work.

Mental Health at Work offers bespoke training, for staff at all levels, to raise awareness, challenge myths and de-stigmatise mental health issues in the workplace.

The City Mental Health Alliance (CMHA) has launched a Guide to Thriving at Work, a unique toolkit to help businesses which employ over 500 people to become mentally healthy workplaces.

​​​​​​​​​​As an employer, you have a crucial role to play in supporting the health and wellbeing of your employees, whether the problems are related to work or not.

Sleep is essential for good health and wellbeing: better sleep is the biggest single contributor to living better. This toolkit has insight and advice for employers to address the increasingly damaging sleep-loss epidemic.

This resource is regarded as highly valuable by line managers across private, public and third-sector organisations to help them create healthier workplaces.

This short article from the Institute of Directors (IoD) talks about steps you can take to ensure a positive working environment in your business.

Stress is a normal part of life, but when it gets overwhelming it can seriously affect your wellbeing and your productivity. This article is full of tips to help accountants control their workload and reduce stress.

A proactive approach to workplace mental health can help you grow your staff and your organisation. This toolkit is designed to help small and medium organisations build a culture that champions good mental health.

Mind has created this free resource for line managers and HR professionals to help them support staff who are experiencing poor mental health.

Promoting wellbeing can prevent problems from escalating and help create positive working environments where individuals and organisations can thrive.

This episode of the CIPD Podcast explores the nebulous idea of resilience, and why it's fundamental to the success of both individuals and organisations, helping them to adapt to change and bounce back from adversity.

The Time to Change Employer Pledge is a great way to show that you are committed to changing attitudes to mental health in the workplace.

An overview of workplace mental health issues and links to key Acas guidance, case studies and places to go to for support and further information.

An independent review into how employers can better support all employees' mental health, including recommended core standards.

Promoting positive mental health can be hugely beneficial: increasing staff engagement, wellbeing and productivity but also protecting against mental health problems. This article gives an introduction and includes detailed step-by-step guidance.

Spreading positive messages at work might be a small gesture, but it will help your colleagues feel more confident talking about mental health in the workplace. Download and print this poster to encourage colleagues to be open.

A toolkit to support senior leadership, line managers, HR and occupational health and safety professionals to develop strategies to reduce the risk of a suicide that impacts the workplace, identify staff who may have suicidal feelings, and deal with crises.

Poor workplace mental health can lead to problems with absenteeism. Emma Jacobs discusses what can be done to improve this with Jaan Madan of Mental Health First Aid England and Nigel Jones of the City of London Mental Health Alliance.

A toolkit to support employers in their response to an employee taking their own life, at work or outside the workplace. It covers a complete timeline: from immediate discovery and dissemination of the news to post-traumatic support and grief.

Noticing changes amongst your colleagues at work can help you to start a conversation about mental health. This short checklist gives you some ideas on what to look for.

One of the first, and easiest, things you can do to start improving mental health at work is simply to start a conversation. In this video, people from various industries talk about the importance of talking to someone.

There are lots of things managers can do to begin promoting workplace wellbeing. This document from Bristol City Council has short, clear, actionable tips to get you started.

Managers deal with health issues on a regular basis—but while they're usually confident in dealing with physical health problems, they may be less so with mental health problems. This guide from Acas is filled with tips and best practice guidance.

It's easier to recognise someone's physical than emotional wellbeing. This easy-to-use tool has been developed with NHS staff to help talk openly about emotional health, look at its impact and plan actions to enable more good days than bad.

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco contribute to short and long term ill-health for many working people. This toolkit has practical ways employers can promote health and support employees who want or need to change their relationship with these substances.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England offers a variety of training for employers across the UK. This one day workplace course will qualify you as a Mental Health First Aid Champion.

The simplest action we can take when things are getting to us and impacting our mental wellbeing is to talk. This booklet will give you some ideas about how to talk about mental health, listen and provide support.

Following the introduction of 'fit notes' to encourage those on long-term sick leave to make an early return to work, this guide focuses on the key behaviours managers need to support employees.

Mates in Mind's training programme aims to help everyone in construction to understand their roles and responsibilities regarding mental wellbeing. It covers starting the conversation to equipping line managers to responding when somebody is in a crisis.