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Staff Counselling
Well Work offers a range of options for individual staff counselling and can tailor the level of support to your specific requirements. These options can be customised for your organisation to make provisions for locational and/or financial support – in part or in full – the structure and scope is up to you as a business.
Research and data confirm that mental wellbeing supports a better environment at work as well as at home. Causes and behaviours of declining mental health may come from home to work – or work to home. Either way – there is a direct correlation between transference of negative thoughts and emotions that impact the individual as well as those around them. Supporting mental wellbeing within the workplace is known to improve performance and therefore increase the likelihood of your business objectives being achieved.
Benefits of counselling in the workplace:
- Proactively provides an emotionally and mentally safe work environment
- Demonstrates duty of care as an employer
- Promotes mental health as well as physical health
- Enables effective and productive communication
- Helps to minimise absenteeism and staff turnover (reducing training costs)
- Individual performances improved using personalised strategies
- Reduces conflict within the workplace
- Supports mentally fit minds and resilience
- Helps to develop individual coping skills
- Manages workplace stress and flags burnout
- Achieves greater job satisfaction
- Boosts overall staff morale
While statistics vary year on year, the bottom line is that creating a mentally healthy work environment results in improved ROI and greater productivity. Organisations with a proactive approach to mental health and safety have increased productivity, improved worker engagement, and are better able to recruit and retain talented people. Three quarters of employees say a mentally healthy workplace is important to them when looking for a job.
The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022 identified a number of work-related mental health disorders as national
priorities. This was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw further escalation in mental health issues identified across the country.
Common psychosocial issues at work:
- The demand and/or control of the job
- Poor support (team, management, cultural)
- Lack of role clarity
- Poor organisational change management
- Inadequate reward and recognition
- Remote or isolated work environments
- Unsafe or unhealthy physical environment
- Aggression and passive aggressive behaviours
- Conflict and poor team relationships
- Trauma
- Discrimination – age, gender, disability, cultural, sexual orientation, racial
- Bullying or gaslighting
- Harassment, including sexual harassment
The proportion of mental disorder claims involving a form of harassment or bullying is 1 in 3 Females and 1 in 5 Males (Source Safe Work Australia). If left unmanaged, this can spiral into a much greater problem, impacting productivity and legal liability.
Well Work adapts to your various industry needs, providing services to small and large businesses, corporate sector, education, government departments, not for profit organisations and a range of companies in between. Staff Counselling services available Gold Coast or Brisbane.