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14 March 2024

Menstruation and support at work

This 2023 report from CIPD outlines the results of their survey of over 2,000 women, aged 18–60, who currently or have previously menstruated while in employment. The aim of the research was to understand employees’ experiences of menstruation and support at work.

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16 February 2024

Menopause Recipe Booklet

Developed by Brighton and Hove Public Health, this is a recipe book for eating well for menopause. Eating well may help reduce the severity of menopausal symptoms, and protect against conditions associated with the loss of oestrogen.

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7 December 2023

Age Friendly Employer Pledge

A nationwide programme for employers who recognise the importance and value of older workers. Employers commit to improving work for people in their 50s and 60s and taking the necessary action to help them flourish in a multigenerational workforce.

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7 June 2021

Helping Employees Navigate Mid-Life

The mid-life MOT is a framework in which employees in their 40s, 50s and 60s can review their personal lives across three key themes: work, health and money, in order to make choices to ensure the future retirement they want. This mid-life MOT toolkit for employers created by the Business in the Community will help you promote a more age-inclusive culture in your organisation.

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7 June 2021

How Menopause Friendly Your Organisation Is?

Employers have a crucial role in supporting menopausal women and creating an inclusive and supportive environment for those women to stay well at work. This checklist put together by Henpicked helps you assess how menopause friendly your organisation is.

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7 June 2021

Menopause in the Workplace

Menopause is a natural stage of life and a significant number of women will be working through their menopausal transition. Yet managing symptoms in the workplace is challenging. Business in the Community have put together a very useful toolkit for employers to help you do it successfully.

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19 April 2021

Menopause at Work: A Guide for Managers

A practical guide by the CIPD covering the symptoms, how to approach a sensitive conversation, carry out a risk assessment and make reasonable adjustments, and how to manage performance positively.

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Alcohol, Smoking & Substance Misuse

Cancer Screening and Support

Financial Wellbeing

Healthy Eating

Leadership, Management & Workplace Culture

7 December 2023

CIPD Wellbeing Resources

Reports, guides, podcasts and webinars to help employees build positive habits and manage their health. From physical and mental health to financial wellbeing, from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD).

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22 June 2021

Flexible Working Guide

The CIPD have produced a practical guide for employers in collaboration with Affinity Health, exploring a number of effective approaches taken by organisations across different sectors and industries to offer insights and recommended actions on what works best in terms of flexible working.

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2 June 2021

Steps to Prevent Sexual Harassment

This web guide put together by ACAS gives you practical steps to prevent sexual harassment to happen in your workplace, including how to create a specific sexual harassment policy and procedure, how to check if it’s working, how to access risks and how to train staff.

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19 April 2021

Developing and Evaluating Workplace Health Interventions Toolkit

Produced by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, this aims to help employers to develop their workplace health interventions following four stages: analyse, plan, implement and evaluate. This model is a continuous process, with the evaluation leading back into the analyse stage. By following this, employers will have evidence to decide what interventions to continue, to stop, or do differently.

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19 April 2021

Handling a Bullying, Harassment or Discrimination Complaint at Work

As an employer, you should do all you can to try to prevent and stop bullying, harassment, discrimination and victimisation at work. On this ACAS web guide, find out about prevention by improving equality, diversity and inclusion in your workplace. This guide also covers the different types of unfair treatment, your legal responsibility as an employer, how to approach a bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation complaint if your employee files one, and how to handle it formally or informally.

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19 April 2021

Discrimination: An Overview and How to Prevent It

Learn more about discrimination based on the 'protected characteristics' under the Equality Act 2010, and what you can do to prevent it from occurring in your workplace in this web guide created by ACAS.

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Local Services & Signposting

Mental Health

5 January 2024

Mental health and working remotely

Mind offers tips for looking after mental health if employees are in a hybrid or remote role.

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5 January 2024

Mental Health for Employers Toolkit

Business in the Community (BITC) has partnered with Public Health England to produce a toolkit to help organisations support the mental health and wellbeing of its employees. It will help employers take positive actions to build a culture that champions good mental health and provides a greater understanding of how to help those who need more support.

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11 November 2021

Able Futures

Able Futures provides support to people in work that have mental health difficulties, and is funded by the DWP. The service provides individuals with up to 9 months advice and guidance from a mental health specialist.

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9 September 2021

E-Wellbeing

E-wellbeing for adults is a digital wellbeing service, for adults over the age of 25 who live in Sussex (including Brighton & Hove). Their aim is to provide a space for people to access relevant information about emotional health and wellbeing and find the support that is right for them. Using the Services page, you can find a range of organisations offering support in your local area.

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8 June 2021

Mental Health At Work Website

It’s a very useful hub curated by Mind that aims to help you find the resource or toolkit you need to improve mental health in your workplace. You can search by topic, sector, workplace type or organisation size.

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7 June 2021

Mental Health for Small Business Owners

The Society for Occupational Medicine has created this guide specially for small business owners. It contains five sections which look at recognising the problems, reviewing what is already in place, responding to the needs and reviewing the approach. There is a self-help section and useful links to additional information that could also be shared with staff.

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2 June 2021

Sleep: a Toolkit for Employers

This Business in the Community toolkit provides practical information for all employers on how you can create an environment where employees understand the importance of sleep and are able to make healthier choices at work and at home, with advice that is specifically aimed at SMEs. Many of the points are simple to implement, supported by resources that are free or inexpensive.

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2 June 2021

Developing a Realistic Mental Health at Work Plan

It’s important that your organisation’s intentions to promote good mental health is set out in a policy, alongside with a simple, clear and deliverable plan to ensure that you are fulfilling your commitments in that policy. This guide created by the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust is to help you develop a mental health or wellbeing policy and plan. It also covers how to communicate and review them efficiently.

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25 February 2021

Mental Health Toolkit for Employers

This Business in the Community toolkit is to help you take positive actions to build a culture that champions good mental health by picking out the most valuable resources to create an approach that works for your organisation. It also provides a greater understanding of how to support those who need the most, and how to involve your supply chain.

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Musculoskeletal Health, Aches & Pains

5 January 2024

MSK self-care guidance

Sussex MSK provide a range of information on how to keep healthy, how to help yourself, and how to manage any diagnosed condition related to MSK.

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4 January 2024

Musculoskeletal Health in the Workplace

Guidance on how to be an MSK healthy workplace. Key actions have been identified by experts in MSK health, health and safety, public health, occupational health and HR, along with employers and employees from businesses large and small brought together by MSK Aware CIC MSK Aware CIC is a not-for-profit organisation working to improve the musculoskeletal health of people in the UK and beyond. It has been developed to take forward MSK Aware and the work undertaken by the Bone and Joint Research Group, Royal Cornwall Hospital, UK.

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7 June 2021

Setting up Working from Home Checklist

Example checklist created by ACAS for employers and employees to use when setting up homeworking. This includes temporary homeworking because of the pandemic and longer-term homeworking arrangements.

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7 June 2021

Display Screen Equipment Workstation Checklist

This checklist created by the Health and Safety Executive can be used to help you complete a risk assessment and comply with the current health and safety regulations. If you can answer ‘Yes’ to all the questions, having taken account of the ‘Things to consider’, you are complying with the legal requirements.

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3 March 2021

MSK Health in the Workplace Toolkit

This Business in the Community toolkit is a simple step-by-step resource for dealing with back, neck, muscle and joint pain at work. It will help you pick out the best free resources that are right for you and your team, whatever the size of your organisation. It provides practical advice for all employers on how you can create an environment where MSK health is supported and the impact of MSK problems is reduced.

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Other Topics

15 January 2024

LGBTQI+ inclusivity in your organisation

From Mental Health at Work, resources to create a culture that is inclusive and welcoming, and where people of all identities are free to be themselves.

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15 January 2024

Making your workplace more autistic-friendly

Principles and recommend resources that can help make work environments better for autistic people, from Mental Health at Work.

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15 January 2024

Being anti-racist in the workplace

Tips and resources from Mind's Equality Improvement Manager to promote an anti-racist culture in the workplace.

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4 January 2024

2024 Awareness Days Calendar

This downloadable pdf covers awareness dates and months in the 2024 annual calendar, to help workplaces plan health awareness campaigns.

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22 December 2023

Fertility in the Workplace brochure

Fertility Network UK is the UK’s leading patient-led charity, supporting people facing fertility struggles. Fertility In the Workplace aims to help employers better understand what this entails for employees, as well as their colleagues, to enable them to provide much needed understanding and support.

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7 December 2023

Trainline Business

A free, fast and self-serve travel platform for businesses, from Trainline. The platform provides businesses with tools and information to encourage staff to use public transport. This helps reduce carbon emissions, eases congestion and fosters a sense of community among commuters.

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2 August 2022

Work, Skills and Health – East Sussex Public Health Annual Report

2022 East Sussex Public Health’s Annual Report considers the relationship between work, skills, and health. We know that work and skills have a significant impact on our health and wellbeing, and good work can maintain health, whilst poor work can be detrimental to health. To maintain health, work needs to be paid adequately, be safe and stable, offer opportunity for development, prevent social isolation, and offer a degree of control or decision making.

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7 June 2021

Domestic Abuse Toolkit for Employers

Employers have a duty of care to support their employees suffering from or at risk of domestic abuse, as an integral part of providing a safe and effective work environment. This toolkit for employers created by the Business in the Community consolidates the best practice around three key actions: acknowledgement of the problem, responding to it with internal policies and signposting to support available.

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Physical Activity & Active Travel

Sickness Absence, Return to Work & Prevention

Sole Traders & Industry Specific

7 June 2021

Our Frontline

Our Frontline offers one-to-one mental health support, by call or text, from trained volunteers to frontline staff in need, plus resources, tips and ideas for them to look after their own wellbeing. Our Frontline is a partnership between Shout, Samaritans, Mind, Hospice UK and The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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7 June 2021

MindEd Resilience Hub

Website put together by NHS Health Education England to help healthcare professionals to manage their own mental health and wellbeing with the best advice and tips from experts on topics such as stress and fear, end of life and management skills for team leaders.

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7 June 2021

Staff in Mind Service

This service is for every health and care staff member working within the Sussex Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System who may be experiencing emotional or psychological difficulties, and includes online self-assessment, a confidential follow-up with a clinician and access to mental health treatment.

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7 June 2021

Building Mental Health for Construction Workers

Construction workers are more likely to experience work-related stress and other mental health issues, and they are less likely to come forward and talk about it due to stigma and gender stereotypes. Building Mental Health has put together a helpful toolkit of resources for construction employers.

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26 February 2021

Working Well When You Are Self-Employed

If you are self-employed, you are not only doing your job by yourself most of the time, but you have also taken on responsibility for the accounts, the invoicing and the marketing. It’s easier to forget to add your own wellbeing to the to-do list or find the time to prioritise your own health, but this guide created by Leapers will help you.

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Suicide Prevention

9 September 2021

Crisis Management In The Event Of A Suicide: A Postvention Toolkit For Employers

This Suicide Postvention Toolkit is designed to support employers in their response to the suicide of an employee, at work or outside the workplace. Suicide prevention should be an integral part of a positive and proactive approach to mental health at work. But no mental health policy can ever eliminate the risk of suicide. So it is of paramount importance to incorporate a suicide postvention protocol into a company’s crisis management strategy.

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7 June 2021

Zero Suicide Alliance Training

Did you know that suicide is preventable? See how you can have a life-saver conversation with a staff member or a work colleague in this 20-minute free online training created by Zero Suicide Alliance. You can also offer this free training to your workforce.

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7 June 2021

Warning Signs

Sadly, suicide rates among men are, on average, 3.5 times higher than women. Warning Signs is a suicide prevention campaign aimed at men and managed by the Sussex Health and Care Partnership, that you could promote in your workplace to help all your staff and colleagues at risk of suicide.

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1 June 2021

Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Employers

This Business in the Community toolkit supports senior leadership, line managers, HR and occupational health and safety professionals identify a member of staff who may have suicidal feelings and gives practical advice on how to deal with a crisis situation. It also helps you embed suicide prevention strategies in your organisation’s health and wellbeing policies.

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