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Employee mental health action plan

A mental health action plan helps employees manage their mental wellbeing at work and supports managers in having constructive, supportive conversations. This guide explains how to use a mental health action plan effectively and the role it plays in promoting wellbeing and early support.

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By Rachel Sharp, Brightmine HR Practice Editor and Stephen Simpson, Brightmine Principal Editor

Use this model mental health action plan to help employees manage their day-to-day mental health and wellbeing and to help line managers to support their staff.

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Rachel Sharp

About the author

Stephen Simpson, Acting content manager - employment law and compliance at Brightmine

Stephen Simpson
Principal Editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

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