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Help in a Crisis

Employee Assistance Programme

The Univeristy is currently working in partnership with MCL Medics to offer counselling appointments to our staff, through the Employee Assistance Programme.

Employee Assistance Programme - Counselling and Wellbeing Services for Staff | The University of Edinburgh

Occupational Health  

Our Occupational Health Service provides you with advice on health-related matters which will affect you at work. They offer guidance on: 

• A health issue affecting work, including stress
• Sickness absence
• Planning a return to work
• Adjustments in the workplace

Occupational Health  

The University Listening Service 

The Chaplaincy runs the University Listening Service daily (Mon-Fri). They offer: 

• Confidential, non-judgemental listening
• Help in time of crisis
• Signposting to specialist sources of help (including faith contacts if you wish)

Support is available in person, by phone, email or video conversation.  

The Listening Service operates through the University Chaplaincy, for staff or students who want to touch base on any concerns or anxieties, or are looking for a timely or purposeful conversation. Conversations can be held in a variety of places, and could be over coffee or a walk. 

The Listening Service

Chaplaincy Service 

Additional Support External to the University

NHS Mental Health Helplines 

The UK NHS website provides a list of helplines and websites. If you are concerned about your mental health or that of a colleague, you can use this to find an appropriate source of expert advice. 

Mental Health Helplines 

The Hub of Hope

The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first time.

Hub of Hope

Access to Work Mental Health Support Service

A confidential, work focussed service offers up to nine months of structured mental health support. Providing one-to-one support from a qualified mental health professional to manage stress, anxiety, low mood, burnout or workplace pressures. 

What the service offers

The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service is delivered by The Better Health Generation, in partnership with Able Futures.

The service offers:

• Up to nine months of confidential, one-to-one support from a qualified mental health professional.
• Help manage stress, anxiety, low mood, burnout or workplace pressures.
• Specialist support for neurodivergent staff, including access to the Do-It Neurodiversity Profiler to explore individual strengths, traits, and workplace challenges. This can be provided whether or not the individual has a formal diagnosis.

Apply directly to Access to Work

Watch the introductory webinar

Apply for Access to Work support