Aviva Mental Health Guidance
Mental health in the workplace is important
We want to help your employees when things become too much. If an employee is experiencing stress, anxiety, or poor mental health, they can find it difficult to get back on track.
Aviva can help your employees insured under a Group Critical Illness policy to manage and improve their mental health by giving them access to helpful, information, including videos, articles and advice.
Aviva mental health videos
Helping to look after your employees' mental health and build a more mentally resilient workforce is good for your business. Educating your employees on mental health and giving them time to focus on their health and wellbeing can improve employee engagement, boost staff morale and reduce absenteeism.
To help your employees look after their mental health better, we asked an expert clinician to help us produce a series of short videos.
Each video is only a few minutes long and deals with a different aspect of mental health. Watching these videos can help employees identify and find out more about common mental health problems. They can also learn techniques to help improve their mental wellbeing.
They can watch them all at once or dip in and out, so they can keep on top of their mental health whenever they want.
The videos fall into three modules, each with a supporting guide summarising the key messages.
You can use these videos to support your own wellbeing strategy to help your employees - and your business - stay in tip-top health.
Mental health awareness
This module looks as at how to spot the signs and symptoms of poor mental health, ways to reduce mental stigma and how your employees own thoughts and feelings may influence their mental health. The module also looks at how you can support others in more practical ways.
Stress and resilience
The stress and resilience module introduces simple techniques your employees can use to help improve their ability to cope with the stresses of life and the increasing demands placed on us all.
'Always-on' culture
This module looks at how technology has increased the risk of an 'always-on' culture and how this has changed the way we live our lives. These videos look at solving problems and managing the constant demands on our time.
Where can I watch the videos?
The videos are all available in our Wellbeing Library. Your employees can watch them whenever they like, as often as they like.
They can also find a range of useful tools and guides on a wide variety of wellbeing topics in our Wellbeing Library
These services are non-contractual benefits Aviva can change or withdraw at any time.
To be eligible for these services employees must be permanent residents of Great Britain, Northern Island, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
How can I promote these videos to my employees?
At Aviva, we understand helping your employees to engage with wellbeing services is almost as valuable as the services themselves.
That's why we go the extra mile to make sure you have the tool your need to tell your employees what help is on offer in an accurate, engaging way.
We've put together some support materials to help you get the word out. This includes a flyer and email template that focus on the Aviva mental health videos.
We've made it easy for you to share this information with your employees. Now, you can quickly and easily direct them towards the help they need. And it's always there for them to dip into at any time of the day or night.
Other mental wellbeing services available to your employees
These services are non-contractual benefits Aviva can change or withdraw at any time.
To be eligible for these services employees must be permanent residents of Great Britain, Northern Island, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
RedArc
We know that ill health can be a worrying time, RedArc offers insured employees and their family long-term practical and emotional support over the telephone from a dedicated Personal Nurse. The same nurse provides information, support and guidance helping in many ways such as: helping the individual understand the diagnosis and potential consequences, preparing for consultations and following up, discussing surgery or treatment options, dealing with side effects, support with the emotional toll on the individual and their family, signposting to organisations and services to help. For those with mental health concerns, RedArc also has mental health nurses. A course of therapy, counselling or other relevant service can also be provided subject to clinical assessment. There is no limit to the amount and duration of calls from the Nurse.
Stress helpline
Provided by Care first, the stress helpline offers your insured employees aged 16 or over, the chance to talk in confidence to trained counsellors about issues they feel are causing them stress.
The helpline can be a good place if employees need help with personal or work-related stress issues. Talking and sharing can be the first step in helping to work through problems and resolve them, aiming to achieve the best outcome for employees and employers.
Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health
Developed by mental health professionals, the Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health offers video modules and downloadable materials aimed at helping line managers spot the warning signs of poor mental health. It also helps them identify reasonable adjustments and manage professional boundaries.
The toolkit gives your managers more confidence to have supportive conversations with team members, so they can address issues before they become more serious. Terms apply.
Wellbeing Library
Stress and worry can take a toll on wellbeing, wherever it comes from. The Wellbeing Library is an online library of useful content, hints and tips - including guides and tools. In the Wellbeing Library, all of your employees willl find sections offering helpful support on all kinds of situations, from family and relationships, money or work, mental or physical health conditions. Whatever's on their mind, they can find information to help them deal with it.