Mental Health & Wellbeing
Nearly two-thirds of people say that they have experienced mental ill-health and evidence suggests that poor mental health is responsible for almost 13% of all sickness absence days in the UK.
Over 30 years experience
Promoting good mental health
Mental Health is a serious subject. Nearly two-thirds of people say that they have experienced mental ill-health and evidence suggests that poor mental health is responsible for almost 13% of all sickness absence days in the UK.
One of the biggest challenges with poor mental health is removing the stigma that surrounds it. Many don’t hesitate to seek help for physical pain or problem, yet so many of us ignore emotional and mental health issues – or we feel too embarrassed, confused or scared to talk about them. Our Mental Health Awareness Training discusses mental health the way you would a headache or the flu, and it encourages you to take care of yourself as you would a loved one.
Our programmes raise awareness, we train your employees on how to approach mental health and remove stigma; we also provides simple tools, tips and ideas for day-to-day wellbeing-management (for yourself and others).
Happy employees equal healthier, more productive employees. Put simply, good mental health is a win-win for every employee and their organisation.
We're here to help
If you would like to discuss your training needs and explore options, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you and discuss how we can help.
Programmes and Workshops
Our Mental Health & Wellbeing Courses are suitable for all workplaces and help you to understand how to identify and deal with mental ill-health and stress in the workplace.
We can deliver all of our Mental Health & Well-Being programmes in face to face environments, through our e-learning platform or through blended learning programmes. We have a suite of programmes which will be suitable for your employees or we can design bespoke programmes to suit your organisation.
Our programmes and workshops include:
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA England) 2 Day Workshop – Adults
- Mental Heath First Aid (MHFA England) 2 Day Workshop – Youth
- Mental Health Awareness Training
- Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers
- Stress Awareness
- Achieving work life balance in your organisation
- Mindfulness
- Managing employees well-being
- Managing remote workers effectively
- Helping colleagues to GROW using the Coaching model
- Holding effective Return to Work interviews for staff returning from long term absences
- Holding Well-Being meetings for your team members
For more information on each of these workshops or if you would like to discuss a bespoke programme then please get in touch on 0330 0881857. We can deliver these programmes through a variety of blended learning solutions.
What our clients say
Optimal People and Business are experts in all things HR. We worked successfully with them to produce a series of information videos to help businesses during the Corona lockdown. We are looking forward to working with them again in the near future as we grow our business.
We personally dealt with Vici at Optimal and she was a delight. She was open and honest and gave great advice and guidance. She helped us deal with what could have been a very difficult dismissal with a problematic member of staff. I would not hesitate to recommend Vici to any business for their HR.
Can’t thank Mel and the team enough. Really helped my business in a crisis. Looking forward to working with you and the team.
Brilliant service, friendly staff, lovely team
Amazing service and support from extremely knowledgeable people, who also take great care in the standard of their work. Can't fault them, thank you so much!
5* all round, Mel was extremely helpful and answered all my questions, very friendly and professional. Recommended to others and would definitely use again. Thank you again Mel and Helen.
Mel and her team are fantastic, help me all along the way with some complex issues. Couldn't recommend more.
I've used Optimal PBS on a couple of occasions now to assist with due diligence on an acquisition i've been working on and also to provide contract and handbook production. Cannot fault the support or advice provided.
We love this company and Mel is a god send to our business, she sorted everything for us from employee contracts to helping us source the right accountant, she is at the end of the phone whenever I have any HR questions (even when on holiday) can not fault her commitment. Keep up the good work!
Meet our Learning & Development experts
Melanie Stead
Managing Director
Helen Murphy
Operations Director
Amanjhot Dothar
Senior HR Administrator
Caroline Mann
PA and Senior Administrator