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Spectrum Life is our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is a confidential, neutral service provided by an external company to support colleagues at the University, including free counselling.
Mind Wellness Action Plans
Mind Wellness Action Plans
The mental health charity Mind provides a wide range of information, support and resources you can explore here. One very useful resource is their Wellness Action Plans - see below.
A Wellness Action Plan (WAP) reminds us what we need to do to stay well at work – whether working from a physical workplace or remotely – and details what we can do to look after our own mental health and wellbeing. It also helps us develop an awareness of our working style, stress triggers and responses, and enables us to communicate these with our manager and colleagues.
Plan some time in to fill in your Wellness Action Plan and think about the current pressures you’re facing, the impact they’re having on your mental health and wellbeing and what you can put in place to deal with these. It’s useful to think about what support your manager can put in place to support you.
Wellness Action Plan - Workplace
Being situated with your colleagues in a workplace can support social connection and aid collaborative activities, but it can present unique challenges. You might wish to reflect on the extent to which it enables you flexibility to carry out responsibilities you might have outside of work, the extent to which you can concentrate on work in a busy or loud environment and the extent to which it might be more difficult to communicate with colleagues across other teams or departments if they’re working remotely.
Remote working, in addition to a great range of benefits, can present unique challenges. You might wish to reflect on the extent to which social connection or feelings of isolation, challenges communicating with other colleagues, maintaining motivation and establishing clear home and work-life boundaries are sources of poor mental health and wellbeing for you.
Hybrid working, in addition to a great range of benefits, can present unique challenges. You might wish to reflect on the extent to which difficulties communicating with colleagues across other teams or departments operating to different work patterns, difficulties juggling other personal commitments around hybrid work patterns and establishing clear home and work-life boundaries are sources of poor mental health and wellbeing for you.
Wellness Action Plan - Line Managers
Start by sharing our guides with your team and encouraging them to protect time in their calendar to reflect on what keeps them well at work and complete the appropriate Wellness Action plan template. While the Wellness Action Plan itself will provide a structure to your discussion with your team member, it’s important to create an environment in which they feel safe and comfortable to share the details they’ve prepared.
Mind usually asks individuals to share their data to download the below WAPs, but we have gained permission to share them with you all without the need to do this.