Mental Health Awareness Week 2025
May 12, 2025
The health and wellbeing of our staff is a top priority for Premier Estates. April was Stress Awareness Month, and this week from May 12th to May 18th is Mental Health Awareness Week.
While Mental Health Awareness Week raises the profile of mental health each year, it’s important to remember that people need help all year round.
In today’s modern, fast-paced working world, it is crucial to highlight the importance of looking after each other. In the property management sector, the risk of heightened stress – and the mental health issues that result from that stress – can mean the difference between happy clients and residents and disgruntled clients and residents.
How we help to enhance the wellbeing of our staff
Here at Premier Estates we wanted to share the ways in which we help to enhance the wellbeing of our staff on an ongoing basis:
- We have a team of Mental Health First Aiders who can be contact in confidentiality to support those in our team who are experiencing a tough time.
- Through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), we offer free and confidential advice on legal, medical, and domestic issues. The service includes access to 24/7 support, telephone counselling, face-to-face counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), access to discounted gym memberships, and cashback on dental and optical care.
- We promote healthy eating via weekly baskets of free fruit and encourage our staff to take regular breaks and to eat in the breakout area.
- We actively encourage our staff to find their work/life balance via flexible working and hybrid working options.
- We have a range of assets on our intranet that our staff can access to help them to overcome the stresses of life and work.
- Our various internal departments organise regular staff socials to help keep our teams enthused and to strengthen inclusivity and to nurture the Premier Estates internal community.
- If our staff have an issue they can talk in confidence to one of our mental health first aiders, who are available to listen and provide reassurance.
- We don’t save colleague appreciation for Colleague Appreciation Week in September. We actively encourage it all year round. Each quarter we invite our teams to shout out to those colleagues who have been superstars for their teams. A person who feels appreciated will always feel happier which in-turn will help their performance.
The important message for our staff, and to everyone out there is, if you have something on your mind that is troubling you, then you have allies who care and are here to help. Don’t keep things bottled-up inside, talk to someone.
Look after each other 🙂
#StressAwarenessMonth #Wellbeing #MentalHealth
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Sources:
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/mental-health-awareness-week
https://www.mind.org.uk/get-involved/mental-health-awareness-week/
