Health & Well-being Organisations
These organisations offer a host of information on health and well-being and tips to take care of yourself and those around you. Information is also available for employers on how to improve well-being in the workplace.
- Mates in Mind
- Mind
- The Charity for Civil Servants
- Time to Change and Time to Change Wales
- ACAS
- Mental Health UK
- Mental Health Foundation
- Centre for Mental Health
- Anxiety UK
- Rethink Mental Illness
- Blurt
- Mental Health First Aid England
- Shout (Text Shout to 85258)
- Samaritans (Call 116 123 for free)
Resources
Coronavirus and Your Mental Health
This post on Blurt discusses the impact that the COVID-19 outbreak and social distancing measures can have on your mental health, and how to support yourself during this time.
Health and Well-being Survey 2019
CIEEM’s 2017-2018 Employment and Salary Survey revealed a profession that is passionate about their work, highly committed and motivated. But it also revealed a deep unhappiness with the reliance on working long and often unsocial hours, especially during the spring/summer months and there were many comments from respondents about the impact of work on their physical and mental well-being and their family life.
This survey was created to inform the planning of our Summer Conference which was on health and well-being in the profession. This report summarises the results from the survey and proposes some ideas for next steps, including feedback from conference delegates.
Healthy Workplaces
Improving Working Conditions for Early Career Ecologists – By Peter Lawrence MCIEEM and Craig Llewellyn ACIEEM
Health and Well-being Survey: An Update – By Sally Hayns
Designing Healthy Workplaces – By Joe Clancy
Delivering Well-being at Site Level – CIRIA
Mental Well-being
Mental Health and Well-Being in the Ecology and Environmental Management Profession – By Liza Oxford-Booth
You Must be Mental to be an Ecologist – By Jim Phillips
Mental Health and Well-being – By Aline Gomes
Parenthood and Ecology: Mutually Exclusive or Beautifully Symbiotic? You decide… – By Diana Clark
Challenging the Stigma of Mental Health – Geoff Mcdonald
10 Keys to Happier Living – Mental Health First Aid England
Empower Half Hour – Mental Health First Aid England
Physical Well-being
Good Working Practices – CIEEM
Why being an ECoW is good for your health – By Clare Nisbet
Shaw Trust Physical Health Resources
What’s your heart age? – NHS Health Check (Over 30s)
How Are You Quiz? – NHS (Over 18s)
Live Well – NHS
Ideas and Guidance for Employers
Physical Activity, Healthy Eating and Healthier Weight: A Toolkit For Employers – Business in the Community and Public Health England
Mental Health for Employers Toolkit – Business in the Community and Public Health England
Good Working Practices – CIEEM
Improving Working Conditions for Early Career Ecologists – By Peter Lawrence MCIEEM and Craig Llewellyn ACIEEM
Delivering Well-being at Site Level – CIRIA
Tips and Advice for Managing Mental Health – Mental Health Awareness Week
Students
Looking after your mental well-being – Student Minds
Health & Well-being – NUS
Mental well-being: let’s find new ways to support students – Office for Students