Mental Health Support
Information for StaffMental Health & Wellbeing is just as important as physical health and many factors and life events can have an impact on how we feel. This page provides links to urgent help, as well as further information and services available that can help you to improve your mental health & wellbeing.
How to get assistance quickly
Immediate help for you
Please know that you are not alone. Help is there.
999
If it is an emergency, and you need immediate help for yourself, call 999 straight away.
NHS 24
NHS 24 provides non-emergency physical and mental health support: they can be contacted on 111. Visit NHS 24 Mental Health Hub for more information.
GP
If it is not an emergency but you are struggling to cope, your GP will be able to help during their opening hours. Out of hours, you can call the NHS 24 service on 111.
Mental Health Team
If you are already seeing a Mental Health Team, you may have been given a telephone number to use in a crisis. If so, we would encourage you to use it.
For more information about getting urgent mental health help visit NHS inform - https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-health/mental-health-support/get-urgent-mental-health-help/
Ongoing support services
Additional Support:
- Access to confidential counselling through The Talking Rooms – a team of professionals who are in place to offer the support to employees by providing guidance and counselling.
- Able Futures – nine months confidential, no cost advice, guidance and support from mental health professionals to help you cope with work while you manage a mental health condition such as anxiety, depression or stress.
- SilverCloud Online Therapy – online support to manage a range of mental health conditions.
- NHS Inform – identifying, treating and managing mental health problems and disorders.
- SAMH: The Scottish Association for Mental Health – information, advice and support on a range of mental health conditions.
- Headspace for NHS – be kind to your mind with free access to Headspace — the world’s most science-backed meditation app — to all NHS clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Coping with stress associated with COVID-19: advice to hospital staff – a message from doctors, psychologists and researchers at the NHS Traumatic Stress Clinic in London, the UCL Institute of Mental Health and the COVID Trauma Response Working Group to all our colleagues in the National Health Service and all over the world affected by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
- Breathing Space – a free confidential support service for people in Scotland. Open up when you’re feeling down. Call 0800 83 85 87.
- Samaritans Scotland – listening service and crisis support.
