Resources

If you are a volunteer manager, this web page will give you a short and informative overview of supporting volunteers. It outlines topics such as getting to know your volunteers and getting feedback.

This article from trade magazine Home Care Insight breaks down the key information from the World Health Organisation for care workers, including all the relevant tips and advice for your profession. 

COVID-19 is causing many people to die before their time. This can be very distressing for those who work with vulnerable people, who not only may feel bereaved themselves but may also have to support patients' friends and family. This guide can help.

Highly engaged employees are more likely to be happy, healthy and more productive in work. This factsheet gives practical advice on how organisations can improve employee engagement.

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

This factsheet from Roots HR will help you to understand employee wellbeing and how to support your workforce to cope with workplace demands and pressures.

Continued high absence due to mental health can put colleagues and the service you provide under strain. This information explains the legal background around sickness absence, what support you can give to staff and the procedures you can follow.

This page gives tips for taking care of your mental health and wellbeing, help with understanding difficult feelings, and ways to find support if you are going into work during the coronavirus outbreak.

Whatever you're going through, Samaritans are always there to listen. As part of Our Frontline, essential services staff who are working on the frontlines can call free on 116 123 to speak in confidence with a trained listening volunteer.

Throughout the pandemic, there are new issues for line managers to consider. Mind produced this guidance to support and inform their own line managers. It's a useful example of the subjects you might cover with your own colleagues.

Thames Water has produced these posters to encourage their staff to talk to their colleagues who are qualified mental health first aiders. They're an example of how any organisation might raise awareness that help is available.

An introduction to the key concepts in wellbeing at work: the links between work, health and wellbeing, the five domains of wellbeing (physical, emotional, organisation/work, personal development, and values), and the role of stakeholders.

60% of freelancers say mental health has negatively affected their ability to work. 45% haven’t even thought about it. This guide is full of tips to look after yourself if you're self-employed—or, if you're hiring freelancers, to consider their wellbeing.

This guide can help you and you colleagues discover your purpose, and ensure you are working towards it every day.

Wellbeing in the Workplace is a free online wellbeing programme that gives employees the skills they need to manage their own emotional health, and to support those around them, well before those feelings reach crisis point.

This one-page PDF fact sheet from Unilever highlights some of the reasons why poor mental health and sleep deprivation are linked, and offers techniques for improving the amount and quality of your sleep.

Work is a big part of most adults’ lives; how we spend our working day can really influence our health and wellbeing. This guide gives employees information about mental and physical health and where to find support and advice.

Anxiety can be caused by issues inside or outside the workplace, and it's worth employers making efforts to look out for signs that an employee might need support. This page from Acas has a range of tips.

This guide includes specific advice for managers on supporting a team member with a mental health problem. It outlines legal obligations and reasonable adjustments, as well as advising on managing under-performance and absence.

This one-page PDF from Unilever explores ways of helping you to regain your focus, allowing you to give tasks your undivided attention.

AMH Works is a mental health training and consultancy service working with some of Northern Ireland and the UK’s leading organisations. Its programmes teach the skills needed to support and maintain healthy, resilient workplaces.

These pages from Mind are for anyone who is managing their mental health at work. They cover the relationship between work and mental health, managing stress and difficult relationships at work, other sources of support, and more.

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

The coronavirus pandemic has changed how many of us work, with more people than ever working from home away from the rest of our teams. The Charlie Waller Trust have compiled this short page of tips to help you protect your remote employees' mental wellbeing.

It feels as though there is a lot of uncertainty to deal with at the moment. This article from Stylist has helpful tips on focusing on what you can control and what you have power over - including your own responses to situations and events.

Feeling lonely isn't in itself a mental health problem, but the two are strongly linked. Marmalade Trust, a charity dedicated to helping those who are experiencing loneliness, has created this guide to help you to combat loneliness in the workplace.

The subject of face coverings has become a big part of life - from questions of when, where and whether you should wear them, to their effects on wearers and those around them. Whatever your views, this article has advice on navigating the worries around them.

Sometimes, little changes in your behaviour, thoughts, lifestyle or focus can make a big difference to your wellbeing. These pages from Mind have a range of suggestions.

This PDF guide from APM explores the unique challenges faced by project managers and where certain areas of stress might lie. It concludes with a number of recommendations for both organisations and individuals.

Mental Health at Work have created a YouTube playlist featuring five BBC videos which focus on people who experience mental health conditions, including tips on which questions might not be appropriate for you to ask.