Stress Awareness Month in April
20 Mar 2025
Access support and sign up for workshop series for Line Managers and Leaders
April marks Stress Awareness Month, giving us the opportunity to learn more about the causes, symptoms and support available at the University for stress.
Workshop series available: UoM Introduction to Stress Management for Line Managers and Leaders
Over the recent months, the Colleague Wellbeing Team have been working with a group of colleagues (including Occupational Health, DASS, EDI, People Partners, Policy, UCU and representatives from different parts of the University) to review and update our work-related stress processes, templates, resources and training.
We have a series of workshops available offering the opportunity to share the work, provide a development opportunity for line managers and leaders to learn about preventing work related stress, and also gain some feedback from those attending, as part of our consultation process.
Please note – these workshops are only for colleagues with line management responsibility.
Support if you are experiencing stress
We can experience stress in many ways, you might feel stressed because of one big event or situation in your life. Or it might be a build-up of lots of smaller things. A key point to remember is we all experience stress in different ways and be mindful of this when talking with others about stress.
You can find further detail on understanding stress via our Staffnet page ‘Support for Stress’.
Support for stress at work
If you are experiencing stress at work, it is important to talk to someone, the initial person being your line manager. Talk to them as early as possible as this will give them chance to help and support the situation.
You may be signposted to the following services for support:
- Employee Assistance Programme ‘Health Hero’: a confidential and independent telephone counselling service and information service inclusive of a Wellbeing Hub. Support is free and confidential;
- Occupational Health: this service offers a referral process for support and advice on physical or mental wellbeing problems that are impacting an individual;
- Your GP: contacting your GP to discuss your current experiences of stress is important to access support and interventions that can help.