About Us
MINDFUL EMPLOYER® is open to any employer in the UK,
whether small, medium or large, private, public or voluntary sector. MINDFUL EMPLOYER is facilitated by Workways which provides
information, advice and practical support for people whose mental
health affects their ability to find or remain in employment, training,
education and voluntary work. Workways is run
and managed by Devon
Partnership NHS Trust and MINDFUL EMPLOYER is a Registered Trade Mark of Devon Partnership
NHS Trust. The name MINDFUL EMPLOYER® and the logo can only to be used
by signatories to the Charter for Employers
who are Positive About Mental Health and supporting organisations who have
signed our Partnership Agreement.
Council of Reference
The initiative is overseen by a
group of people representing different specialisms, sizes and sectors of employers
and supporting organisations. They are willing to be
contacted should you have a specific enquiry - alternatively, use
the main contact links.
Click here for more
information and also for details of our
comments and
complaints procedure.
Alistair Macintosh,
Executive Director, Exeter Community Initiatives (Voluntary sector; small employer) Darran Armitage,
Associate Director of Human Resources, Devon Partnership NHS Trust (Public sector; large employer)
Janet Turner, Human Resources Advisor,
Exeter City Council (Public sector; large employer)
Rachel
Ackland, Occupational Health & Welfare Advisor, Devon
& Cornwall Constabulary (Public sector; large employer)
Serena Horrell, Occupational Health
Manager, University of Exeter
(Public sector; large employer) Stephen Lear,
Managing Director, Headland Lear (Private sector; small employer)
Susan McAdie,
Network Coordinator, Business Health Network (Employer network)
Tom Bromwich,
Development Manager, PLUSS (Private sector, medium size employer & supporting organisation)
Tricia White,
Account Manager, Covalent Software
(Private sector; small/medium
employer) Vacant (Private sector; large employer)
We are gradually developing informal partnership agreements with a range
of organisations across the UK. This free arrangement enables other
organisation to show that they work in partnership with MINDFUL
EMPLOYER and to display the logo alongside their own. Please
contact us if you would like to know
more.
Partnership agreements have been
signed with:
Advanced Stress Consultancy
in Witney, Oxon
Better Workplace
- Better Mental Health in Doncaster
bWell Birmingham
Cambridgeshire
Minds Partnership
Cheshire & Wirral
Partnership NHS Trust
Creating Bridges
in Kent
InterAct in Essex
Milton
Keynes MINDFUL EMPLOYER Network
MINDFUL EMPLOYER North East
MINDFUL EMPLOYER Scotland
NHS Rotherham
North Essex Partnership NHS
Foundation Trust Open Mind Consultancy in London Pentreath
Ltd in Cornwall
Peter
Christison & Associates
PLUSS in Devon, Somerset &
Bristol Plymouth Business Health Network
Positive Assets
in Hull
Retain (part
of Richmond Fellowship) in
various locations in the UK
Richmond Fellowship Wiltshire
Sheffield Occupational Health
Advisory Service
Solent Mind
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey MINDFUL EMPLOYER
Group 0845 650 2638
Tameside, Glossop and Oldham
Mind
Triangulate, Romsey, Hants
Wakefield & District Mental Health Employment Consortium
Wellness Works,
Worcestershire
West Sussex Works
whitespace coaching,
North East
Workplace Health Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
Sane Australia have also
signed a Partnership Agreement and is working with
Norwood
Association.
From April 2005-March 2009, the
former
National Institute for Mental
Health in England (part of the former
Care Services
Improvement Partnership [now
South West Development Centre]), provided Workways with additional funding to address
employment-related social inclusion issues of people with mental
health problems on local, regional and national levels. We are very
grateful to this partnership which played a significant role in
enabling the regional and national growth of MINDFUL EMPLOYER.
From June 2008-April 2010, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental
Health (now
Centre for
Mental Health) secured funding from the Big Lottery Fund to enable
further development of MINDFUL EMPLOYER in the South East.
We are very grateful to Devon Partnership NHS Trust's
Chairman's Initiative Fund which provided substantial funding
towards the process of the Trade Mark Registration and also
Ashfords,
Solicitors for their legal advice, support and sponsorship for that
process. The
cost of designing this website was made possible by the kind
sponsorship of Devon
& Cornwall Constabulary and the
Met Office.
Employers
Launched in October 2004, MINDFUL EMPLOYER would not have been possible without those who
gave freely of their time and provided invaluable support, advice, sponsorship and practical assistance in its
planning and development. We have received such support from many
different places and people. Representatives from the following
employers made invaluable contributions during the initial development
period from October 2003 to May 2005:
MINDFUL EMPLOYER continues to receive support from many
different employers including our
Charter signatories and others (too many to list
individually) who wish to be kept in touch with the initiative.
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