Development Programme

The Mentally Healthy Work Devleopment Programme is a formalised capability programme for multiple levels of an organisation seeking to build their knowledge and understanding in relation to psychological health and safety (mentally healthy work). The programme has three key streams for practitioners, heads of H&S/Wellbeing/HR, and Chief Executives & Tier Two Leaders.

Why was this programme developed?

Psychological health and safety (or mentally healthy work) is an emerging area of focus in New Zealand. Many organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of how they design work and the work environment to enable them to meet their health and safety duties to prevent psychological harm, whilst also maximising wellbeing and performance of their workforce.

This programme was developed in response to requests from across the public sector for a way to consistently lift psychological health and safety capability across key organsational levels.

Pilot Overview (2023)

	Practitioners	Heads of H&S/ Wellbeing/ HR	Chief Executives and Tier Two
Duration	12 x 2 hour online sessions across three modules	Four 90-120 minute in-person sessions, two 90-minute online sessions	Four 90 minute breakfast sessions, held quarterly
Topics	Introduction to Mentally Healthy Work Understanding and managing psychosocial risks Monitoring, assuring and learning	Introduction to psychological H&S Setting strategic direction Managing Psychosocial Risk I: Identifying psychosocial hazards and assessing risk (online) Managing Psychosocial Risk II: managing, monitoring and continuously improving (online) Operationalising with a cross-functional approach Governing, Monitoring and Assuring	Introduction to Psychological Health & Safety Setting strategic direction Operationalising with a cross-functional approach Governing, Monitoring and Assuring
Delivered by	Massey University	GHSL and FlourishDx	GHSL and FlourishDx
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Register (2024)

Public sector agencies/departments:

The pilot for the programme is currently under review and the adapted 2024 programme will be confirmed early 2024. Please register your interest here for future cohorts. Please note this is for public service agencies only.

Non-public sector organisations:

We're happy to pass on expressions of interest from other sectors and explore how this could be offered to all New Zealand businesses in the future. Get in touch here.