Resources

This guide from Our NHS People is designed to help leaders and managers within the NHS to understand the importance of compassion and apply it to their role.

Psychological first aid is used for supporting people during emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. This free course can teach you how to use it.

This training session from the Hummingbird Project is designed to help your staff to focus on their emotional wellbeing, encouraging the group to identify their own barriers and difficulties and thinking of solutions that work for them as individuals.

The physical and mental health of footballers is scrutinised by millions - but for those who report on the game for a living, there are all sorts of pressures too. This guide outlines the issues, with advice and tips for supporting good mental health.

Trauma at work can have lasting consequences. This guide explains the effects of trauma using the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as an example, and discusses what a managed recovery time might look like.

It's likely that, at some point, you will be working alongside somebody who is grieving the death of a loved one. This PDF guide from Dying Matters explains what you might expect to see when someone is grieving, and suggests ways you can help.

This web page from Dying Matters provides information on finding bereavement services along with advice on how to support someone who has been bereaved, which might be helpful if someone in your workplace has lost a loved one recently.

As the UK begins to lift its lockdown, many people are returning to their usual places of work. This page from Mind explores what you might be feeling about the lockdown lifting, and offers ways to help you manage these changes.

This web page from the NHS is designed to help team leaders working in healthcare to understand the impact of difficult decision-making while under pressure, and offers ways you can help to ease that strain.

Working at home whilst looking after children can be very stressful. This information sheet is aimed at those working from home with school aged children.

It's easy to become overwhelmed if you're a frontline leader during the COVID-19 crisis. This guide can help keep you understand your limits and reduce your anxiety while working.

COVID-19 has brought unexpected financial challenges to many households. If you're worried your employees may be struggling this guide can help.

This guide is designed to help team leaders to run a short session, called a 'Pause Space', which allows staff to take some time to relax, reflect on their work, and show appreciation for their colleagues.

Routines have proven psychological benefits. In times of high stress and high uncertainty, such as the coronavirus pandemic, establishing a degree of stability can be an effective way for managers to protect wellbeing in their teams.

This web page aims to help leaders within the NHS to monitor and lower the stress levels of their teams and themselves. It features two videos from professionals and slides for you to refer back to.

Trauma can overwhelm someone's ability to cope. This guide is designed to help NHS line managers encourage their staff open up about potentially traumatic things they have seen at work.

Stress can negatively impact on the way we act towards each other. This guide from Our NHS People explains what work-related stress is and how it affects people, then considers ways to manage it in a respectful, kind and considerate manner.

Sadly, during the coronavirus pandemic, many people have lost family, friends and loved ones. This guide from Our NHS People is designed for line managers who would like to support someone they work with following the death of a colleague, friend or loved one.

Domestic abuse can affect people from any walk of life, and comes in many different forms. This PDF guide from the City Mental Health Alliance covers the facts about domestic abuse and suggests some ways employers might help those affected.

This Powerpoint presentation contains ideas and information that you might like to include when building your own furlough wellbeing guide.

Even during the COVID-19 crisis, ambulance staff must deal with traumatic situations every day. The Ambulance Staff Charity have collated a number of resources to support your mental health during this time.

Acas have put together a video to help you look after the mental health and wellbeing of your employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, looking after your mental and physical health at work has never been more important. Acas have put together a video to help you look after yourself during the COVID-19 crisis.

If your workplace has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, you might be worried about the wellbeing of your staff. This guide from Bupa explores some ways leaders can help their teams look after their own mental health in challenging times.

The coronavirus lockdown might be affecting your mental health. This guide suggests ways of staying positive and getting into a healthy routine.

A well-written mental health strategy can help provide guidance when people ask for help, highlight areas that might need improvement, and suggest the ways in which you'll develop your plan. Altruist Enterprises have created a PDF guide to help you.

Twinkl and Mind have created a range of resources to support school staff wellbeing as more children start returning to school following the COVID-19 lockdown.

This web page can help you to plan a healthy routine, find times to relax and support you through this difficult time to be a teacher.

Twinkl and Mind have created resources which can offer you support to do your job and look after your wellbeing as a teacher during the pandemic.

This web page lists the practical, emotional, and financial support that police officers, staff, volunteers and their families might need to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.