Mental health toolkit
Supporting your team’s mental well-being needs is not easy. Being able to spot the signs, knowing what to say (and to avoid!), keeping conversations going, and when to involve external expertise – there’s a lot to it.
Our user-friendly toolkit provides you and your managers with the knowledge and tools necessary to support your team’s mental health and well-being needs in the employment law context.
Here’s what’s included:
Mental health champions
- Role profile
- Mental health champion application form
- Letter confirming success in securing mental health champion role
- Mental health training course repayment agreement
- Introduction to our mental health first aid champions
Promoting mental fitness and supporting well-being
- Policies
- Promoting mental well-being
- Being happy and healthy at work
- Guidance note
- For managers on how to support mental well-being
- Agenda
- An informal discussion where you consider if the employee is experiencing mental health challenges
- Plans
- Well-being support plan
- Well-being communication plan
- Reasonable adjustments
- Flowchart
- Stress risk assessment
- Ideas for supporting well-being
- General
- Employee well-being survey
- Stress risk assessment
- Ideas for supporting well-being
Identifying and addressing mental health concerns
- Letter to employee too stressed to attend formal meeting
- Guidance note for managers when to pause, suspend or progress the formal process
Managing absence due to mental health reasons
- Letters
- To employee absent with mental ill-health who is not following sickness absence policy
- To GP regarding concerns for employee’s wellbeing
- To employee asking for permission to contact their medical adviser
- To employee’s medical adviser to understand more about condition
- Calling employee to a meeting to discuss sickness absence
- Confirming outcome of sickness absence meeting (warning)
- Confirming outcome of sickness absence meeting (dismissal)
- Confirming appeal
- Confirming outcome of sickness absence appeal meeting
- Notes
- Welcome back
- Phased return to work
- Agendas
- Sickness absence meeting
- Appeal meeting
- Consent
- Form for completion by the employee