Aviva launches mental health toolkit for line managers

Aviva has launched a mental health toolkit to help its group protection clients manage workplace wellbeing.

It is available to employers with group income protection, group critical illness and group life schemes and focuses on helping line managers support the mental health of their team, with a range of video training modules developed by CBT clinics that follow established best practice guidelines.

The toolkit has been designed to help managers spot changes, increase the use of early intervention, and to help give them the confidence to have conversations with employees.

The modules include:

 

The toolkit complements a new wellbeing library of online guides from the insurer offering support on an array of situations, including family and relationships, money and work, mental and physical health conditions.

Sophie Money, group protection wellbeing manager at Aviva said:  “We are excited about giving all line managers who work for our group protection clients access to this valuable training, whether they are insured lives or not.

“Supportive line management is a critical part of an employee’s satisfaction at work and managers are often either the first port of call within the workplace or the first to notice changes at the outset of an employee’s declining mental health.

“It is vital that line managers take the right action in these circumstances and that they too feel supported by their employer in doing so, which our training will help provide.

“We also hope that the line manager training improves the conversation around mental health in UK workplaces, developing knowledge and ensuring that those in need receive the right support.”

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