Supporting employee mental health: What employers need to know about mental ill health

Author: Sarah Silcox, experienced writer on workplace issues, specialising in occupational health and wellbeing.

Contributing authors: Dr Barbara Mariposa, organisational consultant, and Emma Mamo, head of workplace wellbeing at Mind.

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides discusses the steps that employers need to take to ensure a mentally healthy workplace. Here, we discuss the issues surrounding mental ill health that employers should understand before taking steps to deal with it. This is the second in our series of five guides on supporting employee mental health:

• Supporting employee mental health: The business case
• Supporting employee mental health: Strategies and policies that support good mental health
• Supporting employee mental health: The role of line managers
• Supporting employee mental health: Supporting candidates and employees with poor mental health