Mentally Healthy Work Hub

The Government Health and Safety Lead places significant focus on psychological health and safety launching our Mentally Healthy Work Programme from 2023. This included the Worksafe funded pilot of the Development Programme, the Mentally Healthy Work community of Practice, and the Resource Hub.

Currently four development modules intended to be undertaken collectively by Executives, Governance forums, and Functional leads are being redesigned to accommodate flexible delivery options and self-paced learning. On completion each module will be released on the Mentally Healthy Work Hub from August to October 2024.

The Mentally Healthy Work (MHW) Development Programme is a capability-build programme to lift psychological health and safety capability across the public sector. The focus of the programme is to build core literacy and equip agencies with sufficient knowledge and understanding to apply to their work. The Programme recognises that effective psychological health and safety risk management requires multiple levels of an organisation to be aligned and committed. Therefore, the programme has three key streams:

• Practitioners (in partnership with Massey University)
• Chief Executives/Tier Two Leaders with Heads of H&S, Wellbeing and HR

The Mentally Healthy Work Practitioners' Community of Practice is a forum for practitioners who lead or support their agency's efforts relating to psychosocial risk management/mentally healthy work. This is a forum to share challenges, ideas, and insights from your work and discuss current thinking in the field / concepts learnt from the Mentally Healthy Work Development Programme.

The GHSL has developed a range of resources and tools to support our agencies with their workplace mental health efforts. Some of the resources developed by the GHSL for our Development Programme are now available.

We will continue to develop additional resources on an ongoing basis. Please feel free to get in touch and let us what new guidance would be helpful for your agency.

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