Mental Health and Wellbeing Report: NHS Strategies and Interventions

This report examines mental health and wellbeing within the context of the National Health Service (NHS), a large public sector organization. It addresses factors influencing mental health, the importance of early intervention, and employee strategies for mental health. The report covers interventions to manage stress, such as taking breaks, exercise, and social support, and strategies for building resilience, including forming relationships and establishing routines. It also explores the role of supervision in supporting worker well-being, emphasizing its impact on public service workers and the importance of planning for improved mental health. The report concludes with references to relevant literature and includes appendices with additional information.

MENTAL HEALTH
AND WELLBEING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 & 2.....................................................................................................................................3
Refer to Appendix 1...............................................................................................................3
PERSONAL REFLECTION..................................................................................................3
Refer to Appendix 2...............................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................3
P5. Interventions that can be used to promote healthy methods to cope with stress..............3
P6. Strategies for individual which can be reviewed to building resilience...........................4
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
P7. Role of Supervision for supporting public services worker's well-being........................6
P8: Planning to improve own mental health in organisation..................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX 1.................................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX 2.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Mental Health refers to concepts related to emotional and social wellbeing of humans. It
is essential to maintain a good mental health in order to enhance overall wellbeing in individuals.
With enhanced importance of various aspects contributing to a good mental health, various
organisations are making an attempt to adopt practices contributing to this factor in their firms
(Gu and et. al.., 2015). The assignment is based on National Health Organisation, which is one of
the largest public sector organisations in the world. The report covers factors influencing mental
health and well-being, and value of early intervention in promoting positive mental health. It also
covers assessment of strategies and measures taken by employees regarding mental health.
TASK 1 & 2
Refer to Appendix 1
PERSONAL REFLECTION
Refer to Appendix 2
TASK 3
P5. Interventions that can be used to promote healthy methods to cope with stress.
Stress will occur when it perceive that demand is placed -such as work, relationship or
school exceed the ability to cope (Lawrence and et. al., 2015). Everyone is not same so all will
choose different ways to manage their stress such as yoga, meditation, walking etc.
Intervention that can be used by National Health Service (NHS) for promoting healthy methods
to cope up with stress are:
 Take a break from the stressor: It’s difficult to get away from a stress place like big
project work, growing credit card bill etc. If it is permissible to step away from the stress
work, new perspective or practice techniques will be created to feel less overwhelmed.
 Exercise: Exercise will benefit both body as well as mind. There are many long term
benefits of regular exercise.

 Smile and laugh: Brains are interconnected with our facial expressions and emotions.
Face often holds a lot of stress when a person is feeling stress. Smile and laugh can be
used to refuse the stress.
 Get social support: It means using a social tool like call, email, chatting etc. to reduce
the stress and increasing efficiency.
 Meditation: For relaxation and focus, meditation and mindful prayer can be used which
can help to see new perspectives, forgiveness and self-compassion development
(Lawrence, and et. al., 2016).
P6. Strategies for individual which can be reviewed to building resilience
Resilience is the ineffable quality that allow to come back stronger than ever from
problems of the life. It does not mean stress impervious but it also means to adopt and copy
stressful situation.. Resilience can we increase in many ways. If the time get tough, good and
positive relationships helps in increasing resilience in person with reassurance and
encouragement.
NHC can build the following strategies for resilience to enhance own mental health awareness
and well-being:
 Forming and maintaining relationship - Good relationship can help to come out from
stress and improve mental and physical health.
 Exercise - Physical exercise helps in refusing the effect of stress and leads to better sleep.
 Establish a Routine- People have struggled in establishing routine and have difficulty on
staying on track throughout the day.
 Action Plan-Making action plan or list of steps helps in moving in transition or working
on a job search.
 Positive Attitude-Must be focused about the future can help to avoid stress.
 Taking Control-Stressed people often feel at mercy of conditions which are beyond their
control (Alcock, and et. al., 2014)

Social Media:
Social media is very useful in today's world. Most popular social media is Facebook.
Facebook had cut down the physical boundaries and engagement in facebook can build resilience
and have a beneficial impact on mental well-being, an extensive suggestions etc. Advantages and
disadvantages of using only Facebook as a source of resilience are:- .
Advantages :
 Facebook had reach over the world and it is growing very rapidly, so we can promote
resilience anywhere.
 We can connect and contact people with the help of Facebook who are anywhere in the
world with the help of internet and spread information about well being.
 Many people use Facebook for group discussion and for short meetings so it can increase
resilience among people.
 Facebook provide many games and other application which help in reducing stress and
improving well being. (Gascon and et. al., 2015).
Disadvantages:
 Social networking sites have risk of theft of authentic information through Facebook.
This would risk in stealing of organisation's authentic and original work.
 The continuous use of Facebook without a break make our mind ill and decrease well
being.
 More and more use may disconnect one with real life and affect mental wealth.
 May make people depressed if they had been cheated by fake account and their resilience
is affect negatively. This could be negative in case the information presented by the firm
is fabricated.

TASK 4
P7. Role of Supervision for supporting public services worker's well-being
Many public workers affirm that supervisors affect worker's well-being, and research has
demonstrated associations between supervisor behaviour and workers psychological well-being.
Supervision is key for tremendous improvement in the public services worker's well-being,
therefore, it is mandatory to have person in this post who has all such qualifications to supervise
the public workers efficiently and effectively.
More recent studies provide additional support for the importance of supervisor
behaviour. Using the relevant practice of Landeweerd and Boumans (1994), it was found an
inverse relation-ship between supervisor's use of socio-emotional leadership and workers health
complaint.
There is various reasons to supervise the well-being of worker and health promotion plans
to be delivered within working place which are as follows:-
 It reduces the cost and makes it easier to develop and co-ordinate programmes.
 To finish Health gap and inequality between various workers like 'white collar' workers
and 'blue collar' workers.
 To increase job satisfaction and better corporate image of National Health Services in the
market.
 To control the vulnerability in mental health problems effectively and efficiently.
 To control the discrimination, bullying and harassment in the organisation (Shoshani and
Steinmetz, 2014).
Some examples of good supervision for well-being of workers are:-

1. I am confident that my Supervisor supports me when needed. I have never had to use my
leave to attend cultural/community obligations but if or when I do I know that my Supervisor
will support me.
2. A really good supervisor can make this work/life balance WORK in real life by really being
understanding and supportive. From my experience, I have had supervisors who ‘don’t give a
rats’ about my cultural, family and carer responsibilities. They don’t come out and say it, the
non-verbal communication is subtle and sooner or later this impacts on Indigenous staff
performance.
Impact on public worker's own health and well-being of family, friends and colleagues:
There is a significant impact of family, colleagues and friends on the mental health of workers of
National Health Services (NHS) and it has a tremendous result on the working of the workers.
If the family and friends gives support to the workers then, it is very helpful for a worker who is
undergoing through any mental illness to recover. Also the behaviour of colleagues with each
other should be good so that they can work in the company smoothly and it helps the National
Health Services to perform better in the market (Gascon and et. al., 2015).
P8: Planning to improve own mental health in organisation
This is mandatory to for all workers who work in public organisation like National Health
Services (NHS) to plan its own strategy to improve his/her mental health and well-being. For
this, workers should do the following:-
OBJECTIVES CURRENT
PROFICIENCY
TARGETED
PROFICIENCY
SOURCES TIME SCALE
Exercises 6 10 Journals,
Observations,
Consultancy from
expert in this field
1-2 month
Boost Brainpower 7 10 Internet, Manuals 1-2 month

Work some
omega-3 fatty
acids into your
diet
5 10 Market 1-2 month
To work effectively and efficiently in a company, public workers should plan to improve their
own mental health. In this, they should analysis their current state of mental health and
thereafter, they should fix the target state (proficiency) which they want to achieve in near future.
CONCLUSION
It is thus concluded that mental health is necessary in enhancing the importance of
wellbeing of individuals. It is necessary to review factors intervening early to ensure well-being
of individuals. It is better to assess strategies and taking measures to promote healthcare in public
sector organisations.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Gascon, M., and et. al., 2015. Mental health benefits of long-term exposure to residential green
and blue spaces: a systematic review. International journal of environmental research
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Gu, J., and et. al.., 2015. How do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based
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Kinderman, P., 2014. A prescription for psychiatry: Why we need a whole new approach to
mental health and wellbeing. Springer.
Lawrence, D., and et. al., 2015. The mental health of children and adolescents: report on the
second Australian child and adolescent survey of mental health and wellbeing.
Lawrence, D., and et. al., 2016. Key findings from the second Australian child and Adolescent
Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Australian & New Zealand Journal of
Psychiatry. 50(9). pp.876-886.
Shoshani, A. and Steinmetz, S., 2014. Positive psychology at school: A school-based
intervention to promote adolescents’ mental health and well-being. Journal of
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World Health Organization, 2014. Social determinants of mental health. World Health
Organization.

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