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Access to Work Mental Health Support Service Employer toolkit 1

5 Introduction Contents Welcome to our Employer toolkit. We’ve created this Overview 2 step-by-step guide to help you get acquainted with the service Key difgerences 3 including materials to help you promote the service to colleagues. Resources 4 Throughout, there are links to download the materials. You’ll fjnd • Service marketing materials an overview of the services ofgered, leafmets and posters to print, • Presentation slides 8 a presentation to view, examples of case studies plus details of • Case studies 9 our mental health training courses and webinars and many more... • YouTube videos 10 We hope you fjnd this toolkit useful. Please share it with line • Mental health webinars 11 managers, HR and Diversity and Inclusion teams in your organisation. • Other mental health 12 If you have any queries, please contact Remploy’s Marketing and training courses Communications team via communications@remploy.co.uk Events 13 Contact details for 14 any queries The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service delivered by Remploy is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions. Access to Work Mental Health Support Service - Employer toolkit 1

Overview Access to Work Mental A brief overview of the mental Health Support Service Depressed? Not eating? Stressed? health services we ofger to Not coping? support your stafg and apprentices. Feeling low? Click here to download. Not sleeping? Anxious? Here’s an overview of the mental health services we ofger to support For your apprentices your stafg and apprentices: More and more of us are struggling with depression, stress, anxiety, feeling low, having trouble For your employees sleeping, or just not right, which can be scary. We don’t always know why we don’t feel like ourselves and each day can become a little bit harder, both at work and at home. The good news is that your apprentices do not have to face this alone and we’re help to help. Juggling too many things at once, as well as busy modern lives, can sometimes cause your stafg to have a bit of a wobble. It can be diffjcult to focus on work, sleep is afgected and low The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service for Apprentices, delivered by Remploy, mood can set in. Before you know it, things can become a bit too much and they don’t know funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, provides confjdential support at no cost, how to get back on track. However, no one should face this alone. to help apprentices stay in work. They can access this service if they are on an apprenticeship programme, and/or have a mental health condition that has resulted in absence or causing The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service delivered by Remploy, funded by the diffjculties to remain in their apprenticeship. Department for Work and Pensions, provides confjdential mental health support for stress, anxiety, depression, low mood and much more, in the workplace, at no cost. It covers all the key things such as: This service helps anyone: Workplace support for nine months Coping strategies In permanent or temporary employment (working or signed ofg sick) Workplace adjustments A wellbeing plan With a mental health condition that has resulted in workplace absence or making Practical examples of what you can it diffjcult to remain in work. do as an employer. Just talk to us and we’ll do the rest: With dedicated support for up to nine months, we cover all the key things like coping strategies, workplace adjustments, practical advice and guidance, as well as a plan to 0300 456 8210 return to work. apprentices@remploy.co.uk www.remploy.co.uk/mentalhealthforapprentices Working with employers like you, organisations and teams, we’ve already helped thousands of people to remain in, or return to work, so our expertise speaks for itself. Just talk to us and we’ll do the rest: 0300 456 8114 F o r a l t e r n a t i v e f o r m c a t s o m , p l e m u n a s e a2wmhss@remploy.co.uk i c a e m t i o n a i l s @ r q e m u o t p l o y i n g . c o . R e f . u k R 4 0 www.remploy.co.uk/mentalhealth 7 - J a n 1 9 Access to Work Mental Health Support Service - Employer toolkit 2

Key difgerences between services Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Access to Work Mental Health Support Service Occupational Health (OH) • Workplace personality confmicts Advice This service ofgers non-clinical work-focused • Specialist clinical support Focus on and suggestions on how to work with mental health support to allow employees to the physical and mental wellbeing perform well in their role whilst managing the a diffjcult manager or co-workers of employees in the workplace symptoms of their mental health condition. • Safety at work Encourage safe • Drug addiction Advice on how to deal working practices with an employee or a family member’s Here’s how it difgers to EAP and OH services that many employers provide to stafg. addiction, including teen drug use prevention • Ergonomics Study how employees work and how they could work better • Mental health issues Depression, anxiety, • Confjdential support From a Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant for nine months, anger management or other needs an • Employee health Monitor the health including face-to-face meetings at the employee or their family members may of the workforce one, six and nine month stages, as well be dealing with • Sickness absence Support the as fortnightly phone calls management of sickness absence • Health and caregiving issues How best • Coping strategies To allow employees to manage a return to work after illness, • Health and Safety policies Work with to efgectively undertake their duties a disability or medical issue at work, or how employers to implement policies to to obtain help for an ill or elderly loved one and responsibilities and to manage ensure Health and Safety compliance the symptoms of their mental health • Legal and family advice Marriage • Assessments Conduct pre-employment condition at work counselling, divorce, or child custody issues health assessments • Eligibility No formal diagnosis is required • Health programmes Provide support • Financial counselling How to avoid to access the support for health promotion and education bankruptcy, pay down a credit card debt, programmes or create a budget • Recommendations for employers Efgective workplace adjustments with employee • Employee advice Provide advice and • Grief assistance Support for employees consent; this could include meeting counselling to employees around who have lost a loved one, a co-worker employers face-to-face non-health-related problems or dealing with a signifjcant event. • Other support Available to friends and • Employer advice Provide employers The above support is often ofgered via family of employees who are in employment with advice and guidance around a 24/7 helpline or face-to-face counselling. or an apprenticeship. making rea sonable adjustments to working conditions. Click here to download. Check your organisation’s policy on what your EAP and OH services provide. 3

Resources Service marketing materials We have created a range of materials including A5 leafmets and A4 posters that can be shared digitally with your employees and managers, hosted on your intranet, or printed and displayed in your workplace. You can download them here. “Visit our webpages on mental health and apprentices for more information.” Access to Work Mental Health Support Service - Employer toolkit 4