Designing Good Work
Help your employees to understand their role in positive mental wellbeing. Help build confidence in your team and reduce stigma. These tasks can be tackled in any order to allow you to develop and embed best practice in workplace mental health within your organisation.
Designing good work starts with actively mitigating psychological risks and workplace hazards. By identifying stressors and providing secure, confidential environments, employers protect psychological safety and prevent employee burnout.
Beyond safety, businesses must structure sustainable roles that offer flexibility, fair rewards, and autonomy. Adapting jobs to fit diverse life stages ensures work remains rewarding, manageable, and balanced.
Tasks
This action proactively safeguards employees by mitigating workplace hazards and misconduct. By clarifying roles, managing workloads, and normalising help-seeking, employers foster a secure, transparent culture that actively prevents burnout and protects psychological safety.
This action fosters an open, respectful, and confidential workplace culture. By providing private spaces, encouraging safe discussions, and offering flexibility, employers build an inclusive environment where individuals feel secure being themselves and seeking support without judgment.
This action champions work-life balance by adapting hours, locations, and roles to meet evolving personal needs. Supporting hybrid options, life-stage transitions, and phased retirement helps employees manage external pressures, effectively reducing workplace stress and boosting long-term mental well-being.
This action cultivates an equitable and motivating workplace through fair recruitment, objective decision-making, and clear progression paths. By recognizing employee contributions and adapting roles to individual needs, employers boost confidence, build resilience, and ensure a fulfilling career journey.
This action focuses on creating sustainable, high-quality roles that protect mental well-being. By defining expectations clearly, enabling autonomy, and setting healthy boundaries, employers ensure manageable workloads while empowering managers to champion balance and foster a safe environment for open communication.
This action proactively protects employee well-being by identifying and mitigating psychological hazards. Through targeted risk assessments, employers uncover workplace stressors such as excessive workloads or unclear roles, taking direct action to eliminate stress triggers while equipping staff with resources to manage pressure.
Full Circle Funerals
Working in a sector where exposure to grief, loss and trauma is part of everyday work, Full Circle recognises the importance of creating a workplace where employee mental health is proactively supported alongside the needs of the people it serves.
The Toolkit
Engaging with your employees to increase their awareness of mental health in the workplace is a priority.
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TaskHave a clear plan for mental health across your workplace
Ensure employers establish an inclusive, actionable mental health strategy.
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TaskEstablish fair and inclusive policies and procedures
This action ensures workplace policies are legally compliant, inclusive, and fair.
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TaskDemonstrate your commitment to mental health at work
This action embeds mental health into an organisation’s core identity and leadership agenda.
Help your employees to understand their role in positive mental wellbeing. Help build confidence in your team and reduce stigma.
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TaskProtect people from harm at work
This action proactively safeguards employees by mitigating workplace hazards and misconduct.
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TaskCreate a safe and supportive environment that protects mental health.
This action fosters an open, respectful, and confidential workplace culture.
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TaskSupport flexible ways of working
This action empowers businesses to accommodate the diverse life stages and unexpected needs of their workforce by offering adaptable hours, locations, and transition plans.
Implement a solid approach to prevent bullying & discrimination and use sustainable methods to support employees.
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TaskSupport physical activity for good mental health
This action champions the vital link between movement and mental wellbeing by integrating physical activity directly into the working day.
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TaskSupport self-care for good mental health
This action empowers employees to actively manage their wellbeing by embedding and normalising self-care practices within the working day.
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TaskProvide a variety of mental health support options
This action ensures that employees have immediate access to a diverse ecosystem of mental health resources tailored to their individual preferences and needs.