Resources

Every Mind Matters is a national mental health platform from Public Health England. Their resource centre is full of free materials you can order, or download, to promote it in your workplace and encourage colleagues to look after their mental health.

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.

Many organisations are happy to invest in initiatives to support employee wellbeing, but often only focus on a few elements. This template outlines the key areas to consider, including questions to help plan and build better strategies for the future.

Acas has a range of training courses designed to help organisations to navigate the legal, practical and personal elements of managing mental health in the workplace. They're offered in many locations across England and Wales.

The ambulance service and its workforce face unique challenges when it comes to mental health. This website provides specific resources for employers to help improve their culture.

Networks are a great way of connecting staff who have similar experiences and backgrounds. At St Mungo's, there are several different groups offering support and advice.

A good night’s sleep refuels, revitalises and re-energises you, making you feel refreshed, positive and equipped to cope with the stresses of a normal day. This guide makes some suggestions on how you might improve the quality of your sleep.

This web page from the NHS outlines ten easy ways for you to reduce the amount of stress you experience. It includes tips on remaining positive, connecting with people, and getting active.

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.

Suffolk Mind offers one-to-one consultancy and a range of training courses aimed at making your workplace one of the best in the world for taking care of mental wellbeing.

This report highlights the problems that people with schizophrenia (and other long-term health conditions) may have with regard to employment, and how we can tackle them.

This booklet aims to help employers understand the relationship between good employee mental health and getting the best out of your staff.

If you’re having a tough week and lots of worries are building up, it can be difficult to cope. This simple activity from YoungMinds encourages school staff to think about the things that help get them through.

The work of barristers and clerks is often demanding and pressured. This guide explores the issue of stress in the legal profession, with tips and pointers to further support.

The Mental Health at Work Commitment is a simple framework that that any organisation can follow to improve and support the mental health of their people. Signing up is free and shows your commitment to your workforce.

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.

Thames Water produced this film featuring their staff, based on the Time to Change 'Be In Your Mate's Corner' campaign video. It's all about encouraging employees to look out for each other and offer a listening ear.

In this video from the Be Well Collective, integrative psychotherapist Helen-Jane Ridgeway discusses how to cope with feelings of inner criticism.

Remote working is the reality for more and more of us. Whether you're already doing it, or are considering implementing it for the first time with your staff, this guide runs through the issues to think about.

This guide from Our NHS People includes three webinars on the topic of supporting colleagues, designed to help leaders within the NHS understand the best ways to aid their staff through difficult times and avoid some easy mistakes.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England talk to employers from a range of sectors, from construction to charity, to find out how their training has benefited them.

Understand your legal duty of care to support the mental health of your employees with this simple guide from Healthy Working Lives.

Getting active can help boost your mood, as well as helping to keep you mentally and physically healthy. This one-page guide from Unilever suggests some ways in which you can include more activity in your working day.

This toolkit from Business in the Community provides guidance on developing a compassionate and inclusive response to the impact of death, bereavement and grief.

Sensitise, skills and sustainability. This toolkit explains these three key steps to creating a mentally healthy workplace.

Darren, from the London Fire Brigade, has suffered from mental ill health for as long as he can remember. However, being able to talk about the stresses he experiences has helped him.

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.

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.

This news article from the Institute of Directors (IoD), in collaboration with Raconteur, discusses the issue of presenteeism and how it can be managed within an organisation.

Rotherham & Barnsley Mind offers a range of services to help employers support their staff's mental wellbeing, from training courses to consultancy to wellbeing workshops.