Resources

If someone close to you is a police officer, from time to time they might experience trauma at work. This short guide shares some principles that can be helpful.

Dealing with difficult situations is part of emergency responders' jobs, but the pandemic has made it particularly challenging. This page outlines the issues, with ideas for coping and links to further help.

Healthy processing of traumatic incidents is essential in policing to reset your stress response, to file events as past, and to move on to the next job. This guide can help.

Working in healthcare or the emergency services, it's likely you have to make difficult decisions that affect other people's lives on a daily basis. This could put you at risk of a moral injury.

Stress and anxiety can cause our use of alcohol to increase, and it's sadly all too easy to miss the signs that your drinking habits have become problematic. This might be even more of an issue for the fire service than it is for other industries.

Ambulance staff have faced a unique challenge during the coronavirus pandemic. To help, the Ambulance Staff Charity have created a series of PDF documents designed to help ambulance staff to cope during this difficult time. 

The way we deal with feelings surrounding COVID-19, as individuals and as employers, can affect our wellbeing and performance in the short and longer term. This PDF guide from the British Psychological Society explains more, with ideas that can help.

Over the past few months, we've been bombarded with news about the coronavirus. This article from Medical News Today offers advice on coping when the bad news is affecting your mood or wellbeing.

Offering financial advice to your employees might seem complicated. The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) have created this PDF guide to help you safely signpost to sources of help so your employees can make better financial choices.

This PDF from Aon explores five simple ways that employers can help their staff to confidently manage their financial lives. It includes tips on gathering information from your organisation, and taking an agile approach to your benefits and rewards schemes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had huge effects on the economy, and that impact has been felt by households across the UK. This guide can help you to understand these issues surrounding COVID-19, and support your employees no matter what their situation is.

More than 16% of UK adults currently have problem debt, and this can affect your mental wellbeing. The Bank Workers Charity have created a simple guide to debt, an explanation of why it matters, and some first steps you can take to help yourself.

Mental Health at Work have created a YouTube playlist featuring six BBC videos which focus on LGBTQI+ people, including tips on what not to ask gay or trans people.

Glassdoor have written a short article featuring 10 simple steps you can take to ensure your LGBTQI+ colleagues are included and represented at work.

Sadly, people who are not straight or cisgender are more likely to experience mental health problems than the general population. This web page from Mind explores what you can do to help if an LGBTQI+ person tells you they are experiencing poor mental health.

Video calls can be more stressful than a face-to-face chat. This quick guide from Leapers offers tips and hints on reducing anxiety before and during these calls.

Being made redundant can be a sad or even traumatic time for somebody, but there are things you can do as an employer that can make this transition as compassionate as possible. This guide will help you make the redundancy process easier and smoother.

This web page from Leapers explores some of the issues faced by lone workers who are looking after their children during working hours. It offers reassurance, advice, and links to the Leapers community where you can meet others in the same situation.

This web page and PDF guide from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) offers a detailed step-by-step process that you can use as a template for starting conversations about race in your workplace.

This PDF guide aims to provide practical advice, hints and tips to help NHS leaders and line managers to create mentally healthy cultures and support better mental health. It includes information about mental health stigmas, and how to break them down.

Breaking the news of the death of a resident by telephone, rather than face-to-face, can have an impact on your mental wellbeing. This guide talks you through making such a call in a way that is sensitive, compassionate and protects your wellbeing.

Breaking the news of a death by telephone, rather than face-to-face, can have an impact on your mental wellbeing. This guide talks you through making such a call in a way that is sensitive, compassionate and protects your wellbeing.

Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, many people started working from home for the first time. This podcast explores the difficulties working remotely can cause, and discusses ways you can ensure you're still taking care of your staff's wellbeing.

This PDF guide from CIPD covers the key facts you need to know about the law and alcohol/drugs, how to cope with an employee disclosing they have a problem, and creating a safe environment where substance abuse is not being encouraged.

Drug and alcohol misuse can be a sign of a mental health concern. This PDF guide from the CIPD presents three different situations you might be faced with, and asks you to think of the ways your organisation might deal with it.

Drug or alcohol problems can affect anyone, and it's possible their use might impact on someone's work performance. This guidance from the CIPD aims to help line managers to effectively support and manage someone who is struggling with drugs and/or alcohol.

This PDF from CIPD is aimed at HR professionals and trainers who will be helping line managers to recognise and manage alcohol and drug problems at work.

For school leaders, this is a time to be looking after the wellbeing of your teams, as well as your own. This PDF guide from Bupa Foundation provides four key areas for leaders to focus on when thinking about how they can support their teams.

This page from CIPD discusses ways you can create a bereavement policy which can take into account individual circumstances and help build a supportive environment.

With the COVID-19 pandemic changing the way we live our lives day-to-day, these are difficult times to be working in the education sector. This guide from Bupa Foundation explores the concept of Personal Energy, which can help keep you feeling calm.