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.
Tasks
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.