Workplace Mental Health

When your people feel their best, incredible things happen

Whether your focus is on promoting mental wellbeing, protecting your people, or responding when support is needed, Medibank has solutions for your workplace.

Approximately 44% of people in Australia will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime1


The workplace can have a big impact on employees overall mental health. Studies have shown that 81% of employees worldwide would prioritise good mental health over a high-paying job2.

Medibank offer a range of programs and services to support mental health and wellbeing at work.

For Organisations

Services that help create a psychologically safe workplace through effective policies, processes, and compliance-focused wellbeing initiatives.

  • Psychosocial Assessment and Strategic Planning​

  • Outsourced Return to Work Coordinator​

  • Crisis Support​

  • Occupational Health & Safety Training​

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy​

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For Leaders

Targeted support that equips leaders with the skills and tools to effectively manage their own wellbeing, support their teams, and navigate challenging situations.

  • Keynote Speakers​

  • Mental Health First Aid​

  • Leader Health Checks​

  • Workshops
  • Training
  • Coaching​

 


 

For All Employees

Scalable wellbeing services that provide employees with proactive education, mental fitness resources, and confidential support when they need it most.

  • Keynote Speakers​

  • The Resilience Project​

  • Employee Health Checks​
  • Workshops
  • Training

 

 


 

Our Health & Wellbeing Consultants can help identify the right programs for your business to have a genuine impact on your employees' mental health.

Promote, Protect and Respond framework

The Promote, Protect, and Respond framework is a strategic model used by Australian workplaces to build and maintain mentally healthy environments. See how our mental health services can support your organisation within this framework.

Promote

Services that support everyday wellbeing and help foster mentally healthy workplaces.

Inspiring keynote speakers
From celebrities, sports stars to renowned researchers - people with lived experience of mental health challenges can bring to life awareness, education and promote a call to action within your organisation.

Employee mental health awareness & training
Increase employee understanding of mental health and illness with an accredited mental health professional. This includes a digital learning platform with action-orientated tip sheets.

Psychological safety strategy development and implementation support
Work with a consultant to create a robust strategy by understanding your workforce psychological safety baseline, develop a tailored plan and then implement.

Health Assessments
Executive health assessments designed to assess physical and mental health of your leadership team.

Protect

Programs designed to equip your people with the tools to navigate challenges and build resilience.

Manager and leadership training
Covers a range of topics including identifying psychosocial risks, having difficult conversations, building social connection within teams and building emotional agility.

Job design
A strategic program of work looking at job roles within your organisation to identify existing risk factors (e.g. rostering, shift work, workload, FIFO) and to wrap around preventable mechanisms to help people perform their best at work and avoid burnout and fatigue.

Resilience training and workshops
Emotionally engaged practical and evidence-based presentations, workshops and resources to give employees the tools to help to become happier and more resilient.

Vicarious trauma training and education
Understanding what vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue are, what they look like behaviourally, and how it can impact inside and outside of work.

Domestic violence training and education
Raise awareness of domestic and family violence, to dispel widely held misconceptions, and to provide practical information on how individuals can seek help for themselves and others.

Respond

Support-focused programs to assist your people's mental health and wellbeing when it matters most.

Mental health first aid training
Training enabling participants to be accredited mental health first aiders to offer peer to peer support within the organisation.

Digital EAP solution
End to end proactive mental health and wellbeing support including training and education, manager content, just in time guidance and virtual coaching or counselling.

Clinical support for crisis situations
Ability to connect with high quality clinical support in moments of need. Either face to face or digitally to support leaders, employees and teams in the moment or ongoing.

Return to work support
Create a framework to support return to work, injury management processes and training of the support teams.

Managing challenging interactions
Help build knowledge of different challenging interactions and effective de-escalation strategies. This may include how to manage verbally inappropriate or aggressive behaviour as well as wellbeing and self-care support.

Didn't find what you're looking for?

Above are Medibank's most popular Mental Health & Wellbeing services. If you didn't find what you're looking for or would like something bespoke for your team, please contact us and we'll do our best to support you.

Mental health specific workshops and training

Self-paced, evidence based workshops across a range of mental health and wellbeing topics.

women at work

Our workshops include (but are not limited to):

  • Managing challenging interactions
  • The Resilience Project: Discovering resilience
  • Mentally fit teams
  • Mindfulness for emotional intelligence at work
  • Make self care your superpower
  • Creating a psychologically healthy and safe workplace

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Medibank Family Roast for workplaces is here

Just as Family Roast has helped Australians connect at home, we're bringing the same meaningful conversations into the workplace, where we spend one-third of our lives. This is about helping workplace pause, connect and improve mental wellbeing. 

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Tap into industry-leading expertise with our comprehensive range of services

We offer a comprehensive list of services from industry-leading providers to help you deliver best-in-class mental health solutions for your business. From guest speakers to whole of organisation EAP support and everything in between.

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Things you need to know

1 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Prevalence and impact of mental illness; retrieved February 2024

2 UKG; Mental Health at Work: Managers and Money; retrieved January 2024