Links
to resources:
Mindful
Employer
This is a network of
organisations who have signed up to a voluntary agreement aimed at
increasing awareness of mental health at work and providing ongoing
support for employers in the recruitment and retention of
staff. Examples of the resources that this organisation
provides include:
* Information and
resource
* Signposting to
support agencies
* Links to other
employers who may have had similar experiences
* Training in
mental health awareness
* Accesss to job
retenttion services
* Local employere
networks
* Examples of
good practice
* Local Practical,
hands-on support
Business
in the Community (BITC)
This is a network of some 830
businesses. BITC provides support and advice as well as
forums and knowledge sharing opportunities. BITC has been
running a health and well-being programme called Business Action on
Health since 2007.
Employers’ Forum on
Disability
Employers' Forum on
Disability is an employers' organisation focused on disability as
it affects business. Their mission is to enable companies to become
disability confident by making it easier to recruit and retain
disabled employees and to serve disabled customers. Members
are drawn from multinational corporations, Small and Medium sized
Enterprises (SMEs) and the public sector. EFD is widely
recognised as setting the standard for disability best practice.
Members can access specialist advice and consultancy services.
British Association for
Supported Employment
The British Association for
Supported Employment is the national trade association representing
hundreds of agencies involved in securing employment for people
with disabilities. The association aims to raise awareness of
supported employment, represent the sector on a collective basis,
inform members, and encourage best practice. BASE facilitates
regional member networks and supports providers and employers by
being a hub of information and good practice. This website
includes information and local support for employers.
Shaw Trust
Tackling
the last workplace taboo
This website has been
developed by the Shaw Trust and focuses on how employers can manage
mental health issues in the workplace. It includes sign posts
to specialist support as well as the services provided by the Shaw
Trust.
The Shaw Trust
has almost 30 years experience of working with people with
disabilities and health conditions in the workplace, including
providing practical, tailored solutions for all employers, from
small family firms, to large corporates, the public sector, the
third sector and insurers.
Health 4 Work
Adviceline
This free telephone advice
line is aimed at small businesses. It aims to provide support
to businesses to help you:-
* Find the advice
and support needed to help an employee experiencing ill health
* Develop a plan to
effectively and sympathetically deal with employee sickness
absence
* Establish how to
deal with a similar problem in the future, should they occur
* Think differently
about your business and the investment you could make in a healthy
workplace
There are links to
occupational health services through NHS Plus, which is a network
of over 100 NHS occupational health providers in England. The
services offered by an occupational health provider include case
management, health surveillance, return to work interviews and how
to deal with staff who are experiencing mental health issues.
There are equivalent advice
lines in Scotland and Wales:
Scotland: Healthy Working Lives
Adviceline
Tel: 0800 019 2211
Wales: Health at Work Advice
Line
Tel: 0800 107 0900
Health Work Wellbeing
Resources from this cross
government initiative can be found via Business Link. It
contains links to information and resources on health, work and
well-being issues for employers, employees, patients and healthcare
professionals. Resources include the Workplace well-being
tool.
Case
studies. These practical examples show how organisations
of different sizes and in a wide range of sectors have implemented
successful health and well-being initiatives in the
workplace.
Health, Work and Well-being Co-ordinators are in place
in each of the English regions, Scotland and Wales. Their role is
to facilitate an integrated approach to health and employment at a
local level. The aim of the co-ordinator network is to help reduce
the overall incidence of work related ill-health and to promote
best practice and innovation on health, employment and skills.
There work is focussed on businesses with up to 250 employees.
Disability Employment Advisers
DEAs are employment
specialists, who are usually based in Job Centres and who work in
partnership with external disability organisations, as well as with
potential employees and employers. They can contact through the
local Job Centre.
Employee Assistance Professionals
Association
EAPA is the professional body
for Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs). It represents the
interests of professionals concerned with employee assistance,
psychological health and well being in the UK. EAPA members
include external and internal EAP providers, purchasers,
counsellors, consultants and trainers.
EAPs address team and
individual performance and well being in the workplace. They
include a mechanism for providing counselling and other forms of
assistance, advice and information to employees on a systematic and
uniform basis, and to recognised standards. EAPs are
strategic interventions designed to produce organisational benefit
- quantifiable outcome measurement - through a systems-lead
approach and human asset management.
The Money
Advice Service
Helpful advice for those who may need
to adjust to events such as
retirement or losing a job owing to
redundancy, for example.
Other sources of help & support
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