Working with employers

We want to have more employers signed up to provide a mentally healthy workplace and take active steps to recruit, retain and support the rehabilitation of people in their workforce who experience mental ill health.

Mindful Employer

Mindful Employer is the work of a voluntary, informal network of employers and support organisations open to any employer in the UK, whether small, medium or large, private, public or voluntary sector.

We are facilitating the development of Mindful Employer in the South East, working closely with Richard Frost and Workways, who co-ordinate the project. Four organizations will hold Employer engagement events to spread Mindful Employer's message and achieve wider sign-up through Local Employer Networks.

Mental health information:
let us help you get it right

Every business in Britain will have staff who experience mental distress. Many employers don't know how to support workers with mental health problems, nor how to promote wellbeing at work.

If you have produced, or are still working on, material to help employers deal with mental health issues at work, we can help you.

The Independent Review Panel has been set-up by Shift, the government anti-stigma programme for mental health. It will review and assess the quality and impact of materials designed to help employers promote mental wellbeing and manage mental ill health in the workplace.

Send us your material for free advice

Our service is free, confidential and voluntary. We will review the materials you send whether you want to publish it or not. Reviews will be posted, but only with your permission, on the Shift web site. Otherwise, they will be completely confidential.

At this stage, we can help you with materials about:

  • Creating a mentally healthy workplace
  • Early identification, prompt action and job retention when people first experience mental distress
  • Supporting employees who have become unwell and helping them to return to work.

If you are thinking of sending something to us for review, please contact Jenni Bacon (jenni.bacon@scmh.org.uk) who will send you more information and a short questionnaire.

AKABA Project (2003-2006) evaluation

This partnership project brought together Kush Housing and Outreach Services, Mellow, Access Employment and us, to support young Black men with mental health problems into paid employment. It was led by Kush; we participated in the Advisory Group and carried out the evaluation.

Download the AKABA final report (179 KB)