Wellbeing Support Service for your organisation

For businesses and organisations across Mid and North East Essex

Practical mental health and wellbeing support to help your team feel well, supported and able to thrive.

We work with organisations across Mid and North East Essex to deliver practical, flexible mental health and wellbeing support.

Every organisation is different, which is why our support is tailored to your needs.

We know that many organisations are facing increasing pressures when it comes to supporting staff wellbeing.

Mental health is a growing challenge for workplaces  but many organisations tell us they don’t always feel equipped to respond.

Managers lack confidence, teams feel stretched, and it’s not always clear how to support someone who is struggling.

At Mid and North East Essex Mind, we provide practical, flexible wellbeing support that helps your people feel more confident, supported and able to thrive.

We have a range of services to support your organisation…

Employee Counselling

We offer a BACP Accredited Counselling Service for your employees either in person or online.

Our counselling service can help your employees with:

  • Bereavement or relationship breakdown
  • Redundancy or work-related stress
  • Exploring issues such as sexual identity
  • Overcoming challenges that may be preventing them from achieving their goals
  • Feelings of depression or low mood
  • Anxiety and managing excessive worry
  • Building confidence

Our simple and confidential referral process allows your employees to contact us directly to request private counselling, while our convenient invoicing service operates directly with your business. This enables your employees to receive the support they need as quickly as possible.

Resilience Workshops

This workshop is designed for anyone who is working on the front line with members of the public or working in a highly pressurised environment.

We know this work can be challenging, and your own team’s mental well-being is at risk in their day-to-day work.

It is common to see teams feeling overwhelmed and having to
approach their managers with casework and asking for support.

This workshop can be tailored to your needs and includes:

  • Understanding peer support
  • Exploring models and formats of peer support
  • Building facilitation skills
  • Steps to implement your own peer support programme

Mental Health Toolkit Training 

A practical, engaging training course designed to help staff understand their mental health and how to look after it.

The Mental Health Toolkit introduces a simple, evidence-based approach to wellbeing, helping people understand the connection between their needs, resources and overall mental health.

Participants will:

  • Gain a better understanding of how mental health works

  • Learn practical tools to support their wellbeing

  • Build confidence in supporting themselves and others

  • Apply learning in both work and everyday life

We offer a range of sessions, from introductory workshops to more in-depth training.

Our core Mental Health Toolkit training, designed to give your team a clear understanding of mental health and how to look after it. This session introduces the Mental Health Continuum and provides practical tools to help individuals recognise their needs, build resilience and support their wellbeing at work and beyond.

A short, interactive session focused on managing stress, with simple breathing and grounding techniques to help your team feel calmer and more in control.

mprove sleep habits and understand the impact of sleep on wellbeing, focus and performance.

Suicide Awareness Training 

Would your team recognise the signs that someone may be in crisis, and feel confident responding if a conversation turned to suicidal thoughts?

As an employer do you want to know how you and your colleagues can spot the signs that a colleague maybe having suicidal thoughts and how to support them?

This course is designed to help you to have potentially life saving conversations and provide practical tools to help stay calm, respond with confidence, and know what to say (and what not to say) when someone may be at risk. It looks at
warning signs, and how to hold a supportive and boundaried conversation, whilst connecting the person to the right kind of help – without taking on the role of a therapist or clinician.

Course aims and objectives

During this workshop, participants will:

  • Discuss warnings signs to look out for, even when the person may not be engaged with mental health services or specifically have spoken about suicide
  • Learned appropriate language to use when talking about suicide
  • Explore strategies for self care both during and after conversations about suicide
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Other services

Individual De- Briefs

If you or one of your team experience a distressing situation or incident in their work, we can arrange for one of our trained team to provide a safe space to discuss their experience and share their feelings.

Group De- Briefs

If your team have experienced a distressing situation or incident in their work, we can arrange for a group workshop in a safe space to openly discuss the situation and share their feelings allowing a team to support one another.

Employer Wellbeing Strategy Advice

If you want to improve your organisation wellbeing for employees but are unsure how to go about making changes

Keynote Speaker

Does your organisation need a keynote speaker for a workplace meeting or conference? Our experienced Mental Health Education Lead can work with you to tailor the content to meet your organisation needs.

Topics can include:

  • Burnout and managing stress
  • Mental Health Habits
  • Embedding a Workplace Culture
Discuss your organisation’s needs

Why it’s time to invest in mental health training

Poor mental health has a significant impact on work productivity and work retention:

  • 1 in 6 people in work will be experiencing a common mental health problem (stress, depression, anxiety) at any one time 
  • In 2020/21 work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health 
  • 14.3 million workdays are lost due to stress, anxiety and depression 
  • The estimated cost to UK employers of mental ill-health (through absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover) is £42-45 billion annually 
  • The average return on investment for every £1 spent on mental health in the workplace is over £5 

Sources

1 McManus et al, 2014
2 HSE, 2021
3 Health Matters, Public Health England
4 Deloitte, 2020

The Mental Health Toolkit

The Essentials is a training workshop designed and owned by The Mental Health Toolkit and provided by Mid & North East Essex Mind under licence, and can only be sold within Mid & North East Essex Mind. Copyright The Mental Health Toolkit © 2024.