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Supporting your People

Implement a solid approach to prevent bullying & discrimination and use sustainable methods to support employees. These tasks can be tackled in any order to allow you to develop and embed best practice in workplace mental health within your organisation.

Supporting your people begins by empowering individuals to prioritize their daily well-being. Providing diverse mental health tools, promoting self-care, encouraging physical movement, and fostering peer connections build a compassionate, resilient workplace community.

Simultaneously, businesses must equip managers with the training and boundaries to lead empathetically. Offering tailored adjustments, proactive check-ins, and structured return-to-work support ensures employees are dynamically cared for through every health challenge.

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Tasks

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Support physical activity for good mental health

This action integrates regular movement into the workday to boost mental and physical well-being. By offering flexible breaks, promoting diverse exercises, and encouraging walking meetings, employers reduce sedentary behavior and make staying active an accessible, everyday habit.

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Support self-care for good mental health

This action empowers employees to prioritise their personal well-being. By promoting mindfulness tools, sharing sleep and nutrition resources, and embedding protected break times into the workday, employers help staff build sustainable self-care routines that protect against stress and burnout.

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Provide a variety of mental health support options

This action ensures employees have access to diverse, accessible mental health resources. By promoting digital tools, self-help materials, and coping strategies, employers empower staff to manage workplace pressure while providing critical, timely support following difficult or traumatic events.

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Help people access mental health support

This action connects employees with vital mental health resources quickly and seamlessly. By utilising trained internal peers, providing clear signposting to external services, and simplifying navigation to clinical care, employers guarantee timely, accessible support for every worker.

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Facilitate peer support and connection

This action fosters a supportive workplace community by strengthening interpersonal connections. By establishing peer mentoring, creating diverse identity-based networks, and encouraging informal social interactions, employers empower staff to safely share lived experiences, build trusting relationships, and naturally offer mutual support.

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Support people through good management

This action equips managers to drive workplace wellness through proactive, compassionate leadership. By embedding regular check-ins, maintaining clear communication, and recognising early signs of distress, managers provide consistent day-to-day support that keeps teams feeling valued and secure.

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Support people through absence and return to work

This action ensures a compassionate, structured approach to managing employee absence and reintegration. By maintaining supportive contact, collaborating with healthcare providers, and designing collaborative return plans with reasonable adjustments, employers facilitate a smooth, sustainable transition back to the workplace.

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Respond and adapt to meet people’s needs at work

This action ensures employers flexibly meet individual mental health needs through tailored tools like Wellness Action Plans. By making reasonable adjustments, offering time off for recovery, and supporting internal peer helpers, businesses create a responsive, compassionate environment that dynamically adapts as needs change.

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Help managers to manage well

This action empowers managers by investing in their training, communication skills, and confidence. By establishing clear boundaries, ongoing learning opportunities, and robust support routes, employers equip leadership to confidently champion team well-being while safeguarding their own mental health.

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The Skate Sanctuary

The Skate Sanctuary is a small, community-focused organisation delivering skating and wellbeing experiences. Despite its size, it has developed a people-first culture where emotional safety, trust and clear expectations underpin the way the organisation operates.

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