Keep your mental health in check with our online self-check tool
We all need to regularly check in on our mental health – and engineers are no exception.
According to Hays’ 2023 Future of Engineering survey, 89% of engineers said they experience some degree of stress from their job, while 40% said they are struggling mentally due to the demands of their role.
It can be challenging to know where to start with taking care of your mental health, though – especially as we all deal with the stresses and pressures of everyday life, at work and at home.
Introducing Mental Health Check-In, our brand-new mental health self-check tool for the engineering community. Developed in collaboration with mental health experts Rightsteps, it’s the perfect starting point to help you understand how you’re feeling right now and find ways to improve your mental health.
Mental Health Check-In will ask you a series of clinically validated questions to better understand your current experience of worry, anxiety and low mood. You’ll then be given a score, determining your levels of worry, anxiety and/or low mood to be either minimal, low, moderate or high.
Along with your score, you'll receive a personalised report with tailored advice, including links to the support options available to you and the ways Foothold can help.
Yes! You can download a quick-reference copy of your results after completing the questions, including personalised links to the support recommended.
You might want to keep this handy so you can compare it with future check-ins to monitor any changes in your mental health. You can also bring your result to your GP as a starting point for discussion about how you can best support your mental wellbeing.
“We’re becoming more aware of our mental health as a society and now, more than ever, we need to remember to ‘check-in’ with ourselves and those around us when it comes to our wellbeing.
We're really pleased to launch Mental Health Check-In to help people in the engineering community understand how they’re feeling and what they can do to take more control over their day-to-day mental wellbeing.”
Carly Snead, Head of Support Services
“At Foothold, our ambition is to improve the wellbeing of engineers and their families, wherever they are. We do this by offering a wide variety of support, designed to help people in the engineering community build their resilience to life’s challenges.
Our Mental Health Check-In is the latest step in our journey to achieve our ambition. We are all becoming increasingly aware of how our mental health impacts us at work and home. By giving engineers and their family members access to a quick and easy-to-use tool to understand and improve their mental health, we aim to empower even more people in our community to live well and thrive.”
Jane Petit, CEO
Perhaps you’ve been struggling with your mental health and would like some confidential advice on how to get support. Or maybe you just don’t quite feel yourself right now and would like to make sense of what’s going on.
No matter where you’re at in understanding your mental wellbeing, Mental Health Check-In is here to help you.
Did you know that Foothold offers a FREE webinar every month? Our expert speakers cover all sorts of mental health and wellbeing subjects, from preventing stress and resolving conflict, to improving your sleep and enhancing your emotional resilience.
You can join live, register to receive a webinar recording after the event, or browse our library of on-demand webinars.