Supporting Mental Health at Work: How Booths Champions Wellbeing for All

Prioritising Mental Health at Booths: Strategies for a Supportive Workplace

Author: Angela Martin, Booths

Booths is dedicated to cultivating a workplace culture that prioritises mental health and wellbeing. By encouraging open conversations, offering practical support like health checks, and training managers to recognise stress, Booths ensures employees feel supported. The company emphasises the importance of good mental health practices, teamwork, and healthy living to create a resilient and happy workforce.

Why do Booths Support Lancashire Mind?

Everyone at some point will experience difficulties with their mental health. It’s important for our colleagues to know that mental health problems are not a weakness. Our business values responsible, caring and courageous character traits. Good mental health practices value the courage to say, “I’m struggling.” Recognising stress in the workplace offers the opportunity to find strategies to cope with day-to-day challenges.

It’s important that colleagues feel supported and able to speak about their feelings and can access the help they need to be better.

How do Booths look after the mental health and wellbeing of their staff?

At Booths, we try and consider mental health in our day-to-day business, in how we structure our work rotas, support our colleagues and interact with our colleagues. We take pride in being a convivial workplace and encourage colleagues to share lunch breaks, having a break makes you feel more productive and on top of things. It also helps colleagues communicate more effectively, forming bonds at work helps enormously with stress.

Booths have also recently introduced some free health checks in our workplace. We understand the challenges in arranging health appointment –and the tendency to put off routine checks, having them in the workplace is a reminder to prioritise both physical and mental health.

Why is positive mental health importance at Booths?

A happy confident workforce is an essential asset to any business and at Booths we want our teams to be their best—and for that to happen they need to feel their best.

To feel your best, you need to prioritise mental health, both in the workplace and outside it.

Any practical advice / top tips that Booths can share with other businesses or leaders on how to prioritise mental health in the workplace?

We make sure our managers are trained to help colleagues to raise awareness about mental health and encourage colleagues to ask for help. Talking about your feelings can help you maintain your mental health and deal with times when you feel troubled. It isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s part of taking charge of your wellbeing and doing what you can to stay healthy.

We actively encourage healthy eating, both to customers and colleagues, we are a food and drink retailer after all!

We prioritise work relationships, teamwork is really the dreamwork, working in a supportive team is hugely important for our mental health at work. It’s also important our colleagues are in the right roles and are able to do something they are good at!

What message would Booths like to share with the community?

Cultivating good mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Learning good mental health practices will benefit you throughout life, making social connections, eating well, exercise, sleep and most importantly talking to someone can make a real difference to life.