Have you felt stressed, anxious or depressed at work? Does your school provide good mental wellbeing support for its staff?

Have you ever personally benefited from mental wellbeing support or provided it yourself? If so, you may be interested in this new opportunity.

In association with the government’s “mental health anti-stigma and discrimination programme”, ‘Shift’, we are producing videos which will help promote examples of positive support for staff mental health in schools. For this, we need teachers to make their own clips demonstrating or describing such an example which can then be used to share ‘best practice’. We have hundreds of easy-to-use cameras which we can send out. Once we’ve received the clips from you, we will edit and promote the videos online and elsewhere.

It is completely free to participate in this project. The video could be a helpful promotional tool for your school or a service that you would like to praise and will also help to improve mental health support for other teachers across the country. If preferred, videos can be recorded anonymously.

For further information about this free offer, which is currently available until the end of the school year, please contact Claire Newall from Shift via email on Claire.newall@nmhdu.org.uk or by phone on 0207 307 2445.

You can see some examples of Shift’s previous excellent video work here.

These factsheets from our InfoCentre may also be useful:

• Shift - an initiative to tackle stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health
• Teacher wellbeing - positive steps to improve school performance
• Spotting the signs of a mental health problem
• Mental health in the workplace