Workplace Well-being & Corporate

Mental Health Emily Pearson, Head of Workplace Wellbeing

– Be. Wellbeing LTD

Why should you care??

Taster Session

Why Zebra’s don’t get ulcers!

What Is Stress?

•Adrenaline, Cortisol•Threat Defence System ,

Fight/Flight •Amygdala and the

Hippocampus•Demands and pressures

Humans and Psychosocial Stress

Stress vs Good Pressure

Mental Health Continuum

Impact on the person

• Higher stress/lower work satisfaction.

• Lower employee productivity and motivation.

• Lower levels of loyalty & higher staff turnover.

• Higher levels of sickness, absence & presenteeism.

Impact on the business employee risk

Why Zebra’s don’t get ulcers?

• In 2015/2016 stress accounted for 37% of all work related ill health cases and 45% of all working days lost due to ill health. (HSE)

• 95% of business we work with don’t actively use Stress Risk Assessments.

• 97% of Managers that we work with don’t know about the Management Standards and their responsibility to prevent workplace stress.

Why should you care? Mitigating the risk.

• Mental health problems cost business on average £1,300 per employee per year. With around 1 in 6 employees experiencing a mental health problem. (Mind 2017)

• Mental Health conditions and problems are classed as a disability under the Equality Act 2010.(Gov)

• Presenteeism costs 1.5 times more than sickness absence to a company.

Why should you care? Mitigating the risk.

The Benefits of Caring

What are the benefits of our Workplace Well-being Framework? Delottie Oct 2017

• Meeting your duty of care and legislative obligations.

• Increase in Productivity.• Reputation increase as an Organisation

Caregiver.• Culture change reducing stigma and saving

lives.• Creating mentally healthy workplaces and

resilient workforce • Retaining valued and experienced members

of staff.

As well as financial savings, the benefits of such investment for your organisation include:

How WeCreate Change

• Expert Consultancy• Development of Workplace Wellbeing Strategy• Accredited Managing Mental Health in the Workplace for

Managers Training.• Mental Health First Aid Training• Accredited Mental Health Advocates Training• Suicide Prevention Training (Safe Talk & ASIST)• Bespoke Mental Health Information Booklets• 1 Hour Mental Health Awareness Presentations• Building Emotional Resilience Workshops• Managing Stress Masterclass for Managers

Our Workplace Well-being Framework

Access to our Talking Therapies Referral Service

Be. recognises there can be times when additional support and therapies are needed for employees, to enable and empower them to be their best selves and thrive. Not only in the workplace but in their whole lives.

We provide:

• Telephone or Face to Face Ethical Needs Assessment with our Wellbeing Practitioner.

• A recommended minimum of six face to face session of an appropriate talking therapy with a BACP registered therapist.

• An exit plan with our Wellbeing Practitioner

A Centre for Excellence

Managing Mental Health in the Workplace for Managers Training:

• 100% of delegates said that they would recommend the course to others.

• 99.9% of delegates said that the trainers knowledge on the subject was either excellent or very good.

• 99% of delegates said that the activities were excellent or very good.

• 98% of delegates said that the value of the course was excellent or very good.

A Centre for Excellence

Our other training and development products:

• 99.5% of delegates said that they would recommend the courses to others.

• 99% of delegates said that the trainers knowledge on the subject was either excellent or very good

• 99.9% of delegates said that the activities were either excellent or very good.

• 98.5% of delegates said that the value of the course was excellent or very good.

Everyone’s wellbeing is important…

We are a movement!

Thank You