Making the case for Mental Health support

According to the CIPD’s Health & Wellbeing at Work Survey (2025) and data from the HSE’s Working Days Lost report (2024/25), mental ill health (including stress, anxiety and depression) was reported as the leading cause for sickness absence in the UK in 2024.  An analysis by [deloitte.com] (May 2024), calculates this costing UK employers £51 billion per year. 

The Keep Britain Working: Final Report (2025) proposes a shared responsibility among employers, employees and health services to create a healthier working lifecycle, emphasising prevention and early intervention.   

With access to our services, we can work together to proactively help your employees stay mentally and emotionally well, manage emerging mental health issues and best support those with existing conditions. Our Mental Health Service has been developed based upon years of experience in workplace health and ensures that your employees can access appropriate help at the appropriate time.   

Insight’s Occupational Mental Health Service 

At insight, our aim is simple; to promote positive mental health and reduce or manage poor mental health, acknowledging that both individual employees and employers have a role to play within this.  

As an employer, being proactive and supporting your employees in the management of their mental health benefits both parties, and there are many ways you can make adjustments and offer support. Doing so is considered best practice, as employers have a responsibility to make reasonable adjustments for those with disabilities, including mental health issues. 

Insight Workplace Health has a specialist mental health team, comprised of Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr Debbie Rees-Adams and Registered Mental Health Nurses, Anita Wake and Rachel Carr. Together, the team can provide mental health focused occupational health assessments and advice, conduct mental health reviews and psychometric assessment, provide guidance on potential interventions for differing mental health presentations, as well as facilitate access to an outsourced team of accredited mental health counsellors (where agreed, for example, with employers who lack access to an EAP service) who provide a range of psychological therapies. The counselling service used is a trusted company with whom we have worked for several years, from whom we have received consistently good feedback from both customers and clients. 

We are also able to cross-refer to our internal neurodiversity team for cases where such issues or comorbidities are apparent and a workplace needs assessment may be deemed beneficial.  See our workplace neurodiversity services for further information on ND support. 

• Provide occupational health reports regarding an employee’s mental health & suitable advice. 

• Advise on managing complex mental health conditions/disorders in the workplace. 

• Assess an individual’s mental health risk/s. 

• Advise on crisis intervention. 

• Utilise specialist assessment (using psychometric measures) to understand an employee’s presentation and symptomology (e.g. specific mental health symptoms, risk of work-related stress). 

• Assist with absence management and return to work discussions. 

• Provide neuropsychological screening / testing (e.g., memory, attention, executive functioning) in conditions where cognitive function may be impacted, including the option of re-testing for comparison purposes. 

• Advise on menopause related mental health problems. 

• Attend case conferences. 

• Provide confidential and sensitive information to employees (separate to management reports) with treatment guidance / support options if appropriate.   

• Provide psychoeducation and signposting advice. 

• Support proactive mental health and coping strategies (for the individual and the organisation).   

• Encourage the utilisation of workplace wellness action plans for employees. 

• Cross-refer for workplace needs neurodiversity assessments and adjustments. 

• Highlight cases which might benefit from professional mental health counselling / psychological therapies. 

Our aim is to always deliver the best quality service to our customers, constantly raising the standards within Occupational Health. Get in touch today for advice and support, and find out what Insight can do for your business.