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Staff wellbeing: how to spot early signs of depression and anxiety
With an open and honest wellbeing culture in place, you may be able to spot problems early. Get advice on what to look for and what to do if you have concerns.
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Remember that mental health can be a sensitive and emotive topic
If you have concerns about a member of staff, you need to be careful about how you raise the topic - otherwise, you might just scare them away, or make things worse.
Have an open and honest school culture
People won’t come forward and be open with you, or be willing to talk about their mental health, if this isn’t standard practice in your school.
Here's how you can put a wellbeing culture in place:
Don’t try
- 10 ways to support staff wellbeing and work-life balance
- Alcohol at staff parties
- Developing peer-to-peer mentoring
- How one 'outstanding' secondary school cut its marking workload by 75%: case study
- How to create a staff mental health and wellbeing action plan
- How to escalate staff wellbeing concerns
- How to offer flexible working to attract outstanding staff and boost retention: case study
- How to run a working group to improve staff wellbeing: case study
- How to run welfare checks for school staff
- Marking mythbuster
- New headteacher's presentation to staff
- Poll results: how to reduce your teachers' workload
- Rewarding staff: payments, perks and incentives
- Save time and improve wellbeing by cutting down internal meetings
- Slash teachers' workload: what to stop doing
- Staff survey pack Updated
- Staff wellbeing: how to use individual action plans
- Staff wellbeing questionnaires
- Teacher workload audit tool
- Trans staff: summary of legal rights
- What not to do with pupil performance data
- Workload: get to the heart of what's overloading your staff with 'keep, tweak or ditch'
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