Helping you find sustainable solutions for your employees mental health and wellbeing at work.
The government has highlighted health and wellbeing at work to be a key priority to improve the mental and physical health of the nation. Employers already have legal duties under the Equality Act 2010, to support employees with mental or physical disabilities and to make adjustments to enable these employees to continue being employed.
“We can do more to …ensure workplaces are healthy and safe, promote the wellbeing… of workers and facilitate a return to work when people develop a health condition or impairment”
Improving Health and Work: Changing Lives: HM Government
We know that mental health challenges in the workplace are becoming more and more common. Often, there are external factors such as home life, family, financial and relationships issues; however, these can have an impact on the work environment, causing high absenteeism and low productivity.
Promoting positive health and wellbeing in the workplace benefits everyone. Being at work, feeling part of the team and learning new skills can make working a positive experience, with the right support, encouragement and coping strategies.
Using our experience of mental ill health and the knowledge that we have of the demands and pressures faced by many in the workplace, we are offering our expertise to employers as part of their employee health & wellbeing policy and strategy.
“We want to create a society where the positive links between work and health are recognised by all, where everyone aspires to a healthy and fulfilling working life and where health conditions and disability is not a bar to enjoying the benefits of work”
Improving Health and Work: Changing Lives: HM Government
Operating as a social enterprise, our purpose is to enable, empower and support as many people as a direct result of the services we deliver in the workplace – this means that through supporting your employees with one or more of our services, you will be helping us to develop independent, community based peer-led support groups for unemployed individuals experiencing mental ill health, local to you and your business. Through us your organisation will be making a massive difference to your local communities, helping you to report on your organisations positive corporate social responsibility.
Consequently, not only do you support your employees to stay well at work, increase productivity and reduce absenteeism, the wider impact is that your business will fundamentally help local people feel and stay well which can often ready them for returning to work and live more rewarding and self-sustainable lives.
We call that a ‘Healthy Brainer’!
