Essay on Mental Health and Well-being in Public Service Workers

Essay on Mental
Health

Table of Contents
Section 1: INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................3
Section 2: Interventions.......................................................................................................................3
Section 3: Strategies and policy...........................................................................................................3
Section 4: Social media........................................................................................................................4
Section 5: The importance of supervision............................................................................................5
Section 6 Impact of colleagues, friends and family on the public service worker's mental health and
well-being............................................................................................................................................5
Section 7: Personal mental health and well being plan........................................................................5
Section 8: Conclusion..........................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................7

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Mental health is a critical issue for the UK's public service. In the United Kingdom, the
workplace has various elements which can influence the people or worker's health and well-being.
Developing the appropriate work environment and controlling the various tools of harm will assist
the employees or workers at workplace. Several sources of harm in the organisation includes low
level of control, poor support and high work demand influence the mental health of workers or
employees at workplace. Report is totally based on the public organisation. Civil Service Fast
Stream is a public sector organisation in UK. This report will include the interventions that used by
organisation to promote health method to cope with stress. This report will also highlight the
strategies and policies that used to build resilience in individuals and the benefits and limitations of
the use of social media to promote mental health and well-being. This report will also state the
importance of supervision to promote mental health and impact of friends, family and colleagues on
public service worker's mental health and well-being and report also include the personal mental
health and well-being plan.
Section 2: Interventions
Various intervention that can be used to promote health methods to cope with stress. For
effectively promoting the mental health of the employees of private organisation, it is necessary to
take significant intervention in their policies. Stress management is a best tool for promoting mental
health. Intervention is classified according to the concern of stress management and on the basis of
level where the intervention takes place (Auerbach And et.al., 2016). The main objective of
intervention is to eliminate stress by decreasing the sources of stress at workplace and also
increasing the elements of well being. Positive mental health is essential in any workplace.
Psychologically healthy workplace is a best place for workers to conduct their activities or
operations in a very effective manner. It prevent the harm for psychological health of worker.
The another aim oaf intervention is to decrease the duration or severity of stress and take
necessary actions before the stress become more problematic. It focuses on to maximize
functioning and develop rehabilitate for those who are suffering or experiencing from
psychological sick health. Intervention mainly concern the assisting employees or workers to
improve management skills reduce and cope with stress. Effective intervention helps to create
systematic changes at workplace to conduct organisational practices effectively.
Section 3: Strategies and policy
Every business leaders should have a knowledge regarding the importance of effective
mental health of employees or workers in the organisation. They should have to consider the way of
employee think, behave and feel because all that activities impact the productivity and performance
of an organisation (James and Glaze., 2016). The company should have to take necessary actions to
maintain proper safety in the workplace. For improving the employee's mental health, Civil Service
Fast Stream public organisation adopts various strategies and policies such as:
Promote the balance between work and life
It is very essential to encourage the employees for balancing their work or life events in a
very effective way. Employees who are arrive early and work late, that will diversely affect their
work or life balance. Without the proper balance between the work or life, employee's productivity
will reduced and they faced unbalanced work or life structure and that can cause mental health
problems (Lawrence and et.al., 2015). Civil Service Fast Stream organisation should have to
encourage the employees to develop a best and rich life outside the office. People should have to
spend time with their family member, loved ones and friends and increase involvement in their