Changes Health and Wellbeing

Outcomes: Highlighted several areas for improvement and action, including:

• Development of a Mental Health Policy
• Formalizing a phased and supported return to work policy
• Raising staff awareness and formalizing access to Changes and other relevant mental health services during a period of mental distress
• Consulting employment law specialists to ensure employees received maximum support and that their rights were upheld during a period of mental distress, i.e. leading to absence from work
• Ensuring that stress management and evaluation of mental health are embedded in all staff support & supervision

Learning: As a mental health service provider – staffed almost entirely by ex-service users, there was a tendency to assume that staff were automatically conscious of their mental health needs and the range of support available should they become ‘mentally unwell’. However, the exercise brought with it the realization that, comprehensively meet staffs’ mental health needs, would require a formalization of existing support mechanisms.

Further Information

john.changes@ntlbusiness.com

John Irons (Chairman)
Changes Health and Wellbeing,
Wellbeing Centre,
North Staffordshire Headquarters,
Booth Street,
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 4AL
01782 845660

ST3 3JN

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