Shift are looking for real life accounts from either employees or employers who can talk about what works when managing mental health in the workplace.

These accounts will be filmed and put on our website and on to DVDs for distribution to employers in England.

The films will aim to reduce the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health and are a means to educate, inform and spread best practice. By being filmed you will be making a real contribution towards creating change.

The following themes give examples of the type of information that we are looking for. If you have any other similar real life accounts outside of these themes we would still very much like to hear from you.

Themes

Mental well-being initiatives

• Have you, as an employer, provided mental health promotional events/activities/policies that have benefited your staff in measurable ways?
  
• Have you, as an employee, benefited from mental health promotional policies and/or activities provided to you by your employer?

Recruitment

• What policies and practices do you use that has ensured the fair recruitment of staff who have mental health conditions?
  
• What policies and practices has a potential employer provided that has helped you to obtain the job?

Talking at an early stage

• What successful measures do you take as an employer to look after staff who become distressed at work?
  
• Have you felt distressed at work? How has your employer supported you?

Keeping in touch during sickness absence

• What measures have you taken as an employer to keep in touch and support an employee when they have been off due to a mental health condition?
  
• How were you supported by your employer when you were off work due to a mental health condition?

Returning to work

• What measures have you taken that have helped an employee back into work successfully after they have been off due to a mental health condition?
  
• What measures has your employer provided that has allowed you to return to work successfully after being off due to a mental health condition?

Disclosure

• As an employer, how have you created an environment where employees feel safe enough to disclose their mental health problems?
  
• As an employee what has your employer done that has made it easier for you to disclose?

Managing an ongoing illness while at work

• What support have you provided that has helped someone who has an ongoing mental health condition to do their job more easily?
  
• What successful measures has your employer provided that enables you to do your job more easily?

Reasonable adjustments

• As an employer what reasonable adjustments have you provided for a member/s of staff that have had successful results?
  
• As an employee what reasonable adjustments has your employer made that has made it easier for you to do your job?

If you are interested in being filmed then please contact Claire Newall at Shift on 020 7307 2445 or by emailing claire.newall@nmhdu.org.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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