On this page you’ll find tips, advice, guidance and links to resources.
This section contains various mental health and wellbeing related e-learning modules and very useful recorded webinars. You don't need to have access to Citrix to access Clacks Academy. For general information on Clacks Academy, please refer to Connect.
Refer to the Healthy Working Lives Connect page on support available at work or email hands@clacks.gov.uk
You can find these helpful sources through the following links:
Your work and cancer toolkit from Macmillan at Work is packed with guidance and practical tips for employees and carers.
For employees:
For carers:
Step on Stress is a free stress management course for anyone living or working in Forth Valley over 16 years of age that helps you learn to manage your stress. The course is now available online.
Each session is pre-recorded with a question and answer facility. It is not group therapy or one-to-one support; therefore you do not talk about your problems in front of others.
Step on Stress comprises of 3 sessions and runs once a week for 3-weeks. Each session lasts for about an hour and covers a different aspect of stress management:
You can book your place online or contact the Health Promotion Service at fv.hpstress@nhs.scot.
NHS Fife Psychology Service YouTube channel also provides a modified version of the Step on Stress classes in four running sections. We recommend watching all four sections in running order (1-4).
The Charity for Civil Servants now have a Burnout Hub on their website, with a range of resources available to help practice self-care and avoid the risk of burnout.
If you are worried about money, especially if these worries are affecting your mental health, please watch the Money Helper Video. More information on Money Helper is available by following the link.
The information is provided by the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), and available to everyone in the UK.
We are working in partnership with Shout, a text-based, crisis intervention support for anyone struggling with their mental health that is available for free, 24 hours a day. Just text 'Clacks' to 85258 to be put through to a trained volunteer.
A free mental health check-in tool, which allows users to assess their current state of mind whilst also providing suggestions for improvements. The tool is completely anonymous, and it has been purposely designed to be so in order for all users to feel comfortable in answering honestly and openly, with jargon free guidance and tips for improvement.
The full One Million Lives check-in takes 15 minutes. Try to do this monthly.
There are a number of places to access support in relation to Mental Health at work.
Silvercloud Self Help for Wellbeing is a digital platform launched by the Scottish Government. The platform provides open access (no referral required) to four Wellbeing modules – stress, Sleep, Resilience and Covid-19.
To access the Silvercloud Self Help platform, use PIN code: Scotland2020
This is a positive mindset App which aims to help you overcome stress, low mood and worry.
You can install the App for free on your device and Track 1 is pre-loaded.
You can unlock the remaining tracks using the following login details:
Daylight
Daylight is an app that will teach you ways to manage worry and anxiety in your life.