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)

Partnerships

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:
 

Ashfords Bonky Whale Party Shop Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust Devon & Cornwall Constabulary Devon County Council Devon Partnership NHS Trust East Devon Primary Care Trust EDF Energy Exeter Cathedral Exeter City Council Exeter College Exeter Enterprises Ltd Exeter Primary Care Trust Hospiscare Howmet plc Jobcentre Plus (Devon & Cornwall District)

Met Office Mid Devon Primary Care Trust Orange Blossom Spa Raise Your Sites Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation NHS Trust Sainsbury's (Alphington, Exeter) St Loye's Foundation South West Tourism South West Water Stagecoach Devon The Plastic Surgeon University of Exeter Viewfinder Westbank

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.