Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health
What is the Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health?
The Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health offers video modules and supporting content – all designed by clinicians – to help line managers spot the warning signs of poor mental health, identify reasonable adjustments and manage professional boundaries.
It also gives them the confidence to have supportive conversations with team members, so they can address issues before they become more serious.
What are the benefits for my business?
Effective mental health support strategies have the potential to improve productivity, employee engagement, reduce absenteeism and help make businesses better places to work. Your managers can use the Aviva Line Manager Toolkit to identify employee behaviours and implement early intervention strategies.
How can the modules support line managers?
Developed by mental health professionals, the digital Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health offers bite-sized videos to help your line managers identify signs and symptoms of poor mental wellbeing among team members, both in the physical and remote work environment. It takes Aviva to help give your line managers the training they need to address mental health issues before they become a bigger problem. It takes Aviva to help give them the training they need to make a positive difference.
Enables more confident, supportive conversations
The digital Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health can help line managers feel more confident in holding appropriate and supportive conversations with team members, so they can help address mental wellbeing concerns before they become more serious.
Helps support employees to stay in work, or return to work successfully
Helping an employee with poor mental health to stay in work or manage a successful return to work after mental health leave is critical. The Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health provides key information and guidance for line managers on the reasonable adjustments and adaptations which could be made.
Support your line managers to manage their own mental health needs
Line managers play an important role in supporting your organisation's mental health and wellbeing, but they need to look after themselves too. The Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health gives them valuable information on how to manage professional boundaries while supporting their team and how to respond to their own mental health needs. It takes Aviva to give them the tools they need to help stay mentally healthy.
Easy-to-access, self-serve content
Your line managers can 'self-serve' each module at a time that suits them and revisit any time they need to.
The Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health is available to insured and uninsured line managers as part of an eligible Aviva scheme.
This service is a non-contractual benefit Aviva can change or withdraw at any time.
To be eligible for the Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health employees must be permanent residents of Great Britain, Northern Island, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
How can line managers access this service?
We’ve made it quick and simple for your line managers to access the toolkit – all you need to do is communicate the launch of the service to them.
To support you, we have created a set of engagement support materials which are available below. The toolkit can also be accessed via the following link: aviva.co.uk/mental-health-toolkit
Please note, this link will guide you through how your line managers access the service, which includes accepting a set of End User Terms & Conditions.
It's important to invite line managers to access the service via either the engagement materials, or the URL provided above, so they have the opportunity to review and accept the End User Terms & Conditions ahead of accessing the service.
This service is not intended to offer personalised medical advice or replace established mental health care pathways. It supplements existing channels by offering an advice and support framework for line managers, helping them to support colleagues who may be experiencing mental wellbeing concerns which are presenting within the workplace. You can read the terms and conditions and the privacy policy online.
We recommend reviewing the content within the toolkit to ensure it complements your internal policies and procedures before launching to your staff.
How can I launch this service?
Making sure your people know about wellbeing services is almost as valuable as the services themselves. That’s why we go the extra mile to make sure you have the tools you need to tell your employees what’s out there to help them in an engaging, informative way.
To help you, we’ve prepared our engagement support materials. These include flyers, email templates, and frequently asked questions documents to share with line managers.
Employee hub
Your employees can also access their own employee hub. This gives them all the information they need on the wellbeing services available to them, you can share the below link with your employees.
Need any help?
If you have any questions about Aviva Line Manager Toolkit: Mental Health please speak to your usual Aviva account manager or financial adviser.