We recognise that our staff may sometimes face certain challenges in their personal or professional lives that are hard to deal with. This is why we offer a confidential and professional life management Employee Assistance Programme, provided by Health Assured, which provides a qualified counsellor who can offer emotional or practical support. It’s available 24 hours and completely free for our team to use, meaning they have access to support whenever it’s needed.
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focuses on the theme of ‘nature’ – which seems particularly fitting after a year where we’ve had our freedom to go outdoors somewhat restricted. Now that restrictions are lifting and the warmer weather is just around the corner, there could be no better time to venture outdoors and find our way to wellbeing.
The ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ provide a guided set of pillars which can help us improve our mental health, focusing on themes of social connection, activity, mindfulness, learning and giving. Our agency chose to collectively take care of our mental health this year by joining in with the campaign in the following five ways.