Mental & Physical Wellbeing

ANDYSMANCLUB are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free to attend peer-to-peer support groups across the United Kingdom and online. #itsokaytotalk

NHS Health at Work is the network of occupational health teams dedicated to ensuring that the NHS has a healthy, motivated workforce that is able to provide the best possible patient care.

This resource guide produced by the South West RFA offers practical tips, work plans and advice to help you and your colleagues cope with stress.

This document focuses on quick tips for a happier and healthier NHS Finance team. It is a poster-style document, that you can print and display in the office. With thanks to the South West Finance Academy.

A free online toolkit developed by Public Health England which asks five questions to help you manage and maintain mental health.

Become a Mental Health First Aider.

Information and Guidance about eating a health, balanced diet.

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership have put together this great desk posture survival poster.

Exploring mental health, wellbeing, and practical ways we can better look after ourselves and those around us. Working in the NHS is incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with sustained pressure and demanding workloads. That’s why creating space for open, honest conversations about mental health is so important.

Headspace are currently offering NHS staff access to Headspace for free. It is a mindfullness and meditation platform that also includes sleep aids, motivational videos and workouts.

NHS Employers have put together a poster on staff wellbeing needs, to help NHS staff feel healthy at work.

Whether you’re exploring quiet forests, wandering along rugged coastal headlands or strolling around your favourite park, there’s increasing evidence that walking in nature is an important approach to improved mental health and general wellbeing.

NHS advice and support for reducing the amount of alcohol you drink.

A little reminder of the things we can do to be a considerate colleague in the workplace.

A mental health platform that you can access using your nhs.net email account, that helps users to proactively manage their mental health.

The Department for Work and Pensions have produced a tool for calculating the cost of poor employee health called Workplace Wellbeing Tool.

The NHS provides a live-well website that includes a number of audio guides and information pages, covering health and wellbeing, mental wellbeing and resilience.

Access the Self-Care Forum’s fact sheet on the Menopause.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was keen to introduce the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) rest, rehydrate and refuel initiative, and did so through a project led by one of the chief nurse clinical fellows. First, staff were surveyed to understand the current situation and any barriers they may face. This was followed by a trial on two pilot wards, before rolling out a trust-wide campaign.

This e-guide has been crafted to assist business leaders and employers in understanding this vital life stage, while equipping them with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively support their employees and colleagues.

Mind have some excellent free resources to support staff mental health.

The mental health benefits of good sleep include boosting our mood, reducing stress and helping with anxiety. Here, the NHS gives you practical tips to help you to build good sleep hygiene and sleep better.

Find out more about the NHS finance Health & Wellbeing Champion Network.

This guide has been produced by the Mental Health Foundation Trust.

Join our free sessions on a variety of health and wellness topics.

A guide designed to help employers and managers understand men’s health challenges and how to support male employees (as well as some trans, non-binary, and intersex individuals) to lead healthier, happier lives.

This guide outlines a four-step approach to help organisations support staff financial wellbeing through foundations, signposting, education, and connection.

Social wellbeing evidence shows that having good-quality relationships can help us to live longer and happier lives with fewer mental health problems. See here for further resources on this.

The winter months can be a difficult time for our mental health and wellbeing, especially as the days get shorter and colder. We have put together some top tips on how to protect your health and wellbeing during winter

Gut Health: Plant points: how to get 30 a week & why

A daily de-stressing planner

A handy digital detox checklist

Download the signs of stress poster

Tips on how to unlock happiness

Further mental health and wellbeing resources from Better Mind.

This workframe focuses on supporting staff through upcoming challenges and change, offering workshops, resources, networks, and programmes that strengthen personal wellbeing and build collective resilience.