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Creating Mentally Healthy Schools
Carole BlackDr Challoner’s Grammar School
Creating Mentally Healthy Schools
Introducing Wellbeing Initiatives
Embedding a shared responsibility for
mental health
Gradually engendering change
Where we started?
Students need good mental health and
need to be able to look after their mental
health to flourish
Students - more preventative work● Resilience Building● Understanding mental health &
addressing stigma● Link between physical health and mental
health
Why is staff mental health so important?
Staff to need good mental health to flourish - when staff are flourishing the
students will flourish
We also need staff to be good mental health
role models
Silence around mental health is costly to Employers: ● Affects productivity● Contributes to absence● Contributes to staff turnover● Impacts on staff happiness at work – and good will….
Staff FeedbackWhat can we do to make your job easier?How can we make you happier at work?
Workload
Change management
Community/Isolation
Environment
Recognition & feeling valued
Build trust - don’t make this an initiative
Actions speak louder than words
Recognise that colleagues will have a wide
range of views on this topic
Take people with you - go slowly
Change from the inside
Our approach
● Making staff welfare a key discussion point in school wide decision making
● Activities in INSET to educate and build resilience skills - mirror work with students
● Activities every term to keep the discussion going
● Activities every term to build community
● Repeating activities to show long term commitment, build understanding, good habits and
embed working practises
● Keep reminding colleagues that wellbeing is everyone’s responsibility
● Encourage all staff, especially managers to set examples, lead from the front
● Try not to add workload, make supporting welfare fit into existing systems and processes
But … share any workload related to mental health activities - lots of staff doing a little
● Learn from others – outside our school & outside the education sector
Two week Autumn
half term
Reduced break
duty
Earlier parents
evenings with food
Only one year 6
open evening
Reduced content
for written reports
Stopped Year 8
meet the tutor event
Staff Cakes
Staff Yoga
New, improved
Christmas partyStaff
Wimbledon
More INSET about
Mental Health & Staff
Wellbeing
Staff Book
Club
Staff room notice board to
raise awareness and keep
discussion going
Energy Grid - watch for
burnout and remember the
recovery zone
Staff Badminton
Introduced change
management
policy
Encourage
walking
meetings
Reducing lunch
meetings –
providing
food/drinks
Changed last day
of term finish time
from 2:30pm to
12:30pm
Signed up to
Employee
Assistance
Programme
Outdoor
seating area
Training staff as
Mental Health
First Aiders
Marking Time to Talk Day
to get everyone talking
about mental health
Signed the Time To
Change Employer
Pledge - commitment
to end stigma and
mental health
discrimination
School
counsellors
provide staff
support
Updated PDRs to
include
discussion about
welfare support
Welfare DogNew Staff Welfare
Policy - committing to
support and workplace
adjustments
Teaching staff
PRP skills -
recognise ABC &
Catastrophising!
Staff training on
wellbeing as part of
line management
Sharing lived life
experiences
Recruited 20
well being
champions
Improving staff
toilets
Promoting
the 5 Ways
to Wellbeing
5 Ways to Wellbeing - staff, students and parents
Wear the colour each day - connecting
No phones day - noticing, connecting
Whole school donation to a food bank - giving, connecting
Encourage families to prepare and cook a meal together - connecting
Staff v 6th form Netball Match - keeping active, connecting
Try a new club, complete an online learning activity - keep learning
Staff pottery session - keep learning, noticing, connecting
Speak to a relative, neighbour, colleague who you haven’t spoken to for a while - connecting
Have a walking meeting - keeping active
External Expertise & Input
Learn outside the Education sector
External review of progress, benchmarking, suggestions
Repeating the same review helps measure progress year on year
Signed Time To Change Pledge Oct 2017 - Action Plan from staff survey and
Mind Workplace Well Being Index report
Continuing with Mind Work Place Wellbeing Index 2017/18 and 2018/19
Access to a free resources and support
Helps to keep this at the top of the school agenda
Headlines 2016/17 2017/18
Building Mental Health Literacy, Awareness Raising and Anti Stigma Campaigns 47% 97%
Preventative Measures (proactive approach to supporting mental health) and initiatives 57% 93%
Senior Leader Buy In and Organisational Accountability 59% 87%
Physical Environment 60% 79%
People Management and effective skills to support Mental Health 60% 75%
Employee Support Tools 31% 71%
Policies & Policy Development 46% 70%
Job Design & Recruitment - roles consider mental health e.g. workload, autonomy, variety 67% 67%
Lived Experience Leadership - staff who have experienced mental health issues sharing
experiences and being at the forefront of change
27% 58%
MIND Workplace Wellbeing Index
How does experiencing poor mental health affect you at work?
Disclosing a Mental Health Concern at DCGS
Staff who did not
disclose a mental
health issue feel
less confident to
disclose than those
that did
But ...staff who
did not disclose
felt similarly
confident that
they would be
supported as
those that did
disclose
The impact of disclosure on a member of staffs situation at
work - we need to give more staff the confidence to disclose
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2
3
4
Staff views on whether managers encourage and demonstrate
healthy working habits
Embedding and engendering changeSenior Management support and action – also need a
lead to keep pushing to the top of the agenda
Core (diverse) group of staff to “champion”
Approach that can be woven into existing school ethos
and practices - build from the inside
Time for staff training – mirror with student support
Have a plan and try and stick to core themes
Commitment to develop beyond initial actions, to review
and grow – put on the School Improvement Plan
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