While it’s normal to struggle at the moment, look out for signs in yourself and others of more significant distress so that support can be accessed. Difficult experiences can lead to growth with the right support.
Click here to access tips, resources and signposting to help you find the right support for you and your teams for right now and beyond. Check out our latest Learning Digest with bespoke learning content, resources and useful links to support your mental health and wellbeing or our latest Leadership Dispatch with current events and special sessions promoting mental wellbeing.
Below you can access resources and videos specifically focusing on some critical challenges and experiences of Young NHS Workforce, Underrepresented groups, men and staff affected by bereavement.
Men and mental health
Dr Mohammed Khaki, GP, TED speaker and Mental Health Advocate discusses men’s mental health with Karol Kuczera, Psychotherapist, FRSA Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Staff Experience Programme Manager, NHSE/I South East and Barbara Goss, Mental Health Delivery Manager, NHSE/I South East.
Underrepresented groups and mental health
Karol Kuczera, Psychotherapist, FRSA Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Staff Experience Programme Manager, NHSE/I and Dr Christine Rivers, Head of Workforce Disability Equality Standard discuss the stigma of mental health and how to create psychologically safe spaces for staff, with special focus on underrepresented groups, including LGBTQ+, BAME as well as disabled staff.
Karol Kuczera, Psychotherapist, FRSA Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Staff Experience Programme Manager, NHSE/I met with Jacob Bayliss, CEO of LGBT Switchboard, to discuss Switchboard’s history, results of the survey looking at the impact of COVID on the LGBTQ+ community and how to support population and staff mental health.
We met with Helen Jones, CEO of MindOut (mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people, working to improve the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ communities) to discuss the history of MindOut, their services, and how to engage better with LGBTQ+ matters in a workplace.
Mental health and bereavement
People grieve in different ways and there is no right or wrong way to feel. Click here to access links to resources and support available both for yourself and your diverse teams.
Young NHS workforce and mental health
Thriving, Hiving or Surviving post Covid, 12th May, 12:30 – 13:15
This session offers the opportunity to consider some of the demands that Covid-19 has placed upon people and explore how individuals and managers can recognise their own levels of functionality, what individuals can do to protect and enhance their own psychological wellbeing and what managers and leaders can do to enhance the psychological safety of their teams and in particular their younger colleagues. Book your place now.
More to support your mental health and wellbeing
- Free access to the mental health apps for NHS staff is still available.
- Boost your mental health via your physical health, join 5k Our Way and Virtual 5k or sign up to the yoga app
- Our NHS People
- Mental Health First Aid
- Mind