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Shift Review Panel: Mental Health at Work, Durham Dales PCT, now part of County Durham PCT
19th March 2009 at 11:20
Review by the Shift Review Panel
Originator: Durham Dales PCT, now part of County Durham PCT, with funding from the Wear Valley Neighbourhood Renewal Funds.
Type of product: Mental health promotion in the workplace; recruiting and retaining staff with mental health needs.
Target audience: Line managers
Publication status: April 2008
Format: This interactive online resource is available at: www.mentalhealthatwork.cdd.nhs.uk
Purpose:
- To improve awareness of mental heath in the workplace, to tackle common misconceptions about mental health at work, to inform line managers about their obligations and best practice.
- To provide accessible information for line managers on how to support staff with mental health problems through scenario-based exercises on: managing absence and return to work, recruitment and dealing with a distressed member of staff.
This interactive online resource is available at: www.mentalhealthatwork.cdd.nhs.uk
OVERALL ASSESSMENT
from the Shift Review Panel
- An excellent on-line resource - free, comprehensive, providing information to line managers on how to support staff with a mental health problem. It has the potential to be useful on a very wide scale.
- The resource is interactive which encourages managers to consider what they would do in different situations, before providing best practice guidelines.
- Different scenarios illustrate how to manage absence and return to work, recruitment and dealing with a distressed employee, helping managers relate to the information.
- The content is evidence based, comprehensive and provides a really good balance of legal and regulatory information covers the topics using practical scenarios. At the end of each section there is an excellent summary which highlights the key points covered.
- The information is presented in step-by-step sections which are very easy to understand.
- There are other issues about mental health in the workplace which need addressing (for example, HSE management standards) and employers would need to look elsewhere for answers to these.
- The need to log-in to access this resource is frustrating and could be off-putting to anyone unused to accessing on-line learning. There may be concerns about receiving spam emails. There should be a clear explanation of the need to log-in and reassurance about how details will be used.
Use the link below to download the full review.
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Documents and links in this resource
- Full review of Mental Health at Work (shiftreviewpanel_durhamdales_mhw.doc)