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The Occupational Health team provides confidential advice for keeping healthy at work.
Our Spectrum Life Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) gives wellbeing support 24/7, 365 days a year.
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What is grief?Grief, bereavement and loss
"Grief can be difficult and stressful and nearly everybody goes through it at some point in their lives. Despite this, it can be very difficult to predict how we might react to a loss, as it is a very individual process. In most cases, grief is not a diagnosable mental health problem. It is absolutely normal that grief places strain on our everyday lives and it can take a long time to adapt to life after a loss. Even after a long period, it is still normal to experience days like the difficult early days after a bereavement, but over a period of time we gradually learn to manage these." - Mind, the mental health charity
Read stories shared by your colleagues about their experience of grief here.
Support options
Chaplaincy pastoral care appointments
The UoE Multifaith Chaplaincy offers one-to-one pastoral care people of all faiths or no faith. Staff who would like a confidential, non-judgemental talk with a chaplain, can book an appointment via their webpage (on the right hand side): Time to Talk slots.
Spectrum Life
If counselling is something you think might be helpful, please have a look at the Bereavement self-help guide created by DPT NHS.
- Cancer Coach is a programme from Cancer Support UK providing people with 6, weekly peer support sessions to help people resume life after cancer treatment. See their webpage for more info or contact: cancercoach@cancersupportuk.org or call 0203 983 7616.
- Cruse Bereavement Care - bereavement support, information and campaigning.
- Death Cafe - at a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Their objective is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives'.
- Let's Talk About Loss for young grievers aged 18 - 35.
- Marie Curie have bereavement information (including support others), an online chat function, add hoc talk line and 'Check in and Chat' where you can access up to 12 weekly support sessions from a trained volunteer who can provide a listening ear and a safe space to talk. Thier support is tailored to those being affected by a terminal illness, whether that is the person diagnosed themselves, their carer or loved ones. It can be any form of terminal illness, including but not limited to a cancer diagnosis.
- NHS - Get help with grief after bereavement or loss
- NHS Talking Therapies (previously called IAPT)- an NHS support you can refer yourself directly to for talking therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), counselling, other therapies and guided self-help.
- It can be helpful to go through one of Mind’s Wellness Action Plans (workplace, remote and hybrid) with your manager so you can both explore how they can support you more with your wellbeing. They also offer a managers' support guide.