Keep your mental health in check with Foothold’s new wellbeing 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.

That’s why we’re pleased to introduce Mental Health Check-In, our brand-new mental health self-check tool for the engineering community. It’s the latest resource in our growing bank of online support, designed to help you with your day-to-day wellbeing.

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.

Who is Mental Health Check-In for?

You! This clinically validated tool is free for everyone in our engineering community, whether you work in engineering or have a family member who does.

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. It’s…

• Completely confidential (you won’t be asked to enter any identifying details)
• Available 24/7
• Free to use
• Quick (it takes under 5 minutes to complete)

How does Mental Health Check-In work?

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.

Can I keep a copy of my results?

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.

Use Mental Health Check-In today

Whether you’d like to start using the tool yourself, or you know someone who could benefit from it – there’s no limit on who can use it and how many times.

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Here’s what our team said about Mental Health Check-In

“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

Please note, this assessment is not intended to replace a consultation with a GP or a mental health care professional. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself or others, call NHS Direct on 111 or your GP to make an urgent appointment. If you feel you are unable to keep yourself or others safe then you should attend A&E or dial 999.