Looking after your Mental Health

We’re passionate about our people’s happiness and recognise that your wellbeing plays a big part in how you feel.

As we navigate Covid-19 together we continue to put our peoples’ safety and wellbeing first and for the last few months have been providing everyone with access to useful resources and information to support everyone through this challenging time, as much as we can.

Here’s a round up of all the resources available to you:

Finding calm in a stressful world

While we all react differently to stressful situations, Covid-19 is the sole topic of conversation on our phones, TV screens and social media. It’s hard to escape. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In this article we share some things you can do to help find calm during this time and be your own hero of safe and well.

This article includes;
1. A 30 minute video featuring guest speaker Susie Bennett from Think Wellbeing.
2. Access to 7 MHF guides

Maintaining a healthy mind in times of uncertainty

As ‘heroes of safe and well’, we must all do our bit to ensure that we take care of our own wellbeing. With so much focus on the potential threats to our physical health, it’s important to take care of our mental wellbeing, especially as so many of us navigate change. In this article we share our top tips to help you take care of your mental health, reduce feelings of isolation, and feel connected.

Action for Happiness – 30 day challenge

Action for Happiness is an international movement, committed to creating more happiness in the world, providing ideas and resources to encourage people to take action at home, at work or in their community. They’ve created an Active Coping Calendar with daily actions to help us look after ourselves and each other as we face this global crisis together.

The calendar is available in 18 different languages thanks to the generosity of volunteer translators from around the world.

Meaningful Calendar – 31 day challenge

The world may be in crisis but Action for Happiness are helping us respond with a sense of purpose and meaning. They’ve created a Meaningful May Calendar with daily actions to help us look after ourselves, and each other, as we face this global crisis together. The calendar features 31 simple ways to keep calm, stay wise and be kind.

The calendar is available in 18 different languages thanks to the generosity of volunteer translators around the world.

Redundancy: Managing your Mental Health

Ashore consultation has begun and regrettably a significant number of roles have been placed at risk of redundancy. We don’t need to tell you that being at risk of losing your job can bring many pressures and financial worries. In this article we have provided useful tools and resources to set you up for success and help you navigate this time.

This article includes;
1. Access to EAP and Independent advice service ACAS.
2. Financial budget planner
3. Managing your finances webinar from Better with Money
4. Top tips for writing your CV
5. Top tips for updating you CV
6. Building your professional network
7. Podcast: Dealing with the anxiety of uncertainty.
8. Podcast: Managing Anxiety with a positive mindset
9. Podcast: Staying resilient in Challenging times.

Supporting you during consultation – managing change webinars SIGN UP – spaces available

Our Learning & Development team have developed a series of webinars and briefing events which will be delivered over the coming weeks. From highly practical sessions covering topics such as financial wellbeing and planning, to resilience and mental health, these webinars and online resources are designed to provide you with support when dealing with emotional and personal responses to change.

We’re also rolling out mental health training …

In addition to resources available to you we’re also rolling our training to equip our leaders and those involved in wellbeing work streams to be able to support the wellbeing of our people ship and shore. Training courses include;

Managing pressure & wellbeing conversations

A 60 minute session led by HR Managers for all Managers onboard. The session focuses on equipping leaders to be able to support their team members with managing pressure and improving their wellbeing.

A guide to wellbeing daily calls

Guidance for formulating questions and leading discussion for individuals making daily wellbeing calls to ship’s company completing quarantine.

Mental Health First Aid Awareness

A half day course (four hours) aimed to increase awareness of mental health, help to identify
potential deterioration in mental wellbeing and how to provide support.

Mental Health first aiders are available to support you if you need to talk to someone. For names of all existing mental health first aiders click here.

Sources of help

If you’re feeling anxious or isolated, remember that support is out there.

Speak to your Line Manager in the first instance and let them know how you’re feeling.
Contact the Occupational Health team
Make use of our free EAP service – confidential external support.

Call: 0800 3 58 48 58 (outside the UK +44 141 271 7179)

For online support join: Validium.com/vClub
Username: Carnival
Password: Harbour

Ships’ Company colleagues can contact GuidanceResources Worldwide
Call: In the UK: 0800 917 5319Web ID: CarnivalEAP
Worldwide: +44 2033 183154
For online support visit: guidanceresources.com
On board: 2222-2222-2222 then 222-222.

(Click here to find out how to register for online access).

This week (18 -24 May) has been Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual event hosted by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF). This years theme is kindness.

If you’d like to find out more about what you can do, access Nuffield Health’s useful kindness planner here.

Kindness is good for our mental health, physical health, families, workplaces and city. So let’s keep on being kind.

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