We continue to strive to improve our support for staff in relation to their mental health. Current areas of focus in health and wellbeing include the launch of new line manager guidance around supporting staff with their mental health, providing a go-to resource which brings together a wealth of support options to ensure that colleagues are better supported in the workplace. We hope to launch this over the coming weeks, after working with key stakeholder groups to ensure the document is of use before distributing more widely.
Elsewhere, new managing stress at work guidance is under development, which will introduce updated stress risk assessments and team-based stress risk assessments, while also providing a toolkit for helping colleagues manage, limit, prevent and eliminate stress wherever possible. The guidance provides a framework for a switch in approach to stress, focusing on moving to a more proactive and prevention-first approach, which is complemented by resources to help colleagues manage stress and access psychological support offers wherever needed. Those who would like to offer feedback on an early draft are invited to get in touch on [email protected].
And these pieces of work should ultimately feed well into a new staff wellbeing strategy that will soon be developed off the back of your feedback from our Health Needs Analysis, outlining how we’ll switch to a more preventative approach embedded in making sure we’re getting the basics right. This will ensure that we’re matching efforts to support staff when its needed with the effort to prevent them from becoming well in the first place – hopefully helping create a happier, healthier environment.
