Relational leadership skills focus on the human side of connection and compassion, as the foundation to driving psychological safety, pro-integrity and organisational performance.
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The Australian Public Service Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Unit has reviewed and updated the ADDRESS suite in line with the Commonwealth Code of Practice 2024.
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Leaders who have the skills to foster and maintain meaningful relationships that inspire, empower and support others drive organisational success, as well as psychological and psychosocial safety within their teams.
By undertaking this course you will learn what Work Health and Safety (WHS) is, why it is so important, key WHS principles and your responsibilities.
Access practitioner tools, practical guidance, resources and capability programs to align agency practices with the APS Mental Health Capability Framework.
Compassionate Foundations is designed to support you to build your interpersonal and self-care skills to foster positive human-to-human interactions that promote connection and understanding.
Connections is a key step in your workplace peer support journey, providing you with foundational knowledge and skills for the role.
Thrive@work – In today’s fast paced world, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and optimising productivity can be challenging.
Resources
Comcare is the national authority for work health and safety, and workers’ compensation. Their purpose is to promote and enable safe and healthy work.
Family and domestic violence constitutes any behaviour that is violent, threatening, controlling or intended to make you or your family feel scared and unsafe. Explore the resources and information on where to get help.
Psychosocial hazards are aspects of work which have the potential to cause psychological or physical harm. The Comcare website has information and resources about identifying and managing these hazards.
Heads Up is a workplace mental health literacy resource developed by Beyond Blue. The website has information that is useful for supporting employees to look after their own mental health and support their colleague.
Comcare provides a range of learning resources to help identify, prevent and respond to bullying and harassment.
Provides APS agencies with a practical, scalable model to respond to psychosocial hazards in their agency. ADDRESS supports agencies to utilise their existing data and incorporates resources and tools that enable assessment and intervention of risks at both an organisational level and a team or branch level.
The Department of Health and Aged Care provides guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for all ages.
Accessibility is a mandatory standard for government agencies. Understand agency responsibilities and commitments and access guidance on designing accessible and inclusive content that is respectful of our diverse nation.
The Vision Australia Accessibility Toolkit provides information to help you understand accessibility requirements and provides a range of resources to support you to create accessible and inclusive information, particularly for blindness and low vision.
Six different posters on the dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility in the areas of: low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
Information on the four principles of WCAG, including tips on how to design web content to ensure that it is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
The MoneySmart webpage was created by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to provide free tools, tips and guidance to assist you to manage your finances.
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) provides advice, resources and tools to help customers to understand their super funds and manage them better.
Provided by the Department of Health and Aged Care, Head to Health contains a variety of digital mental health resources that can assist to improve employee wellbeing. These resources include online programs, mobile device applications (Apps), online forums and phone services and a range of digital information sources.
Beyond Blue is a not-for-profit mental health organisation that provides support for mental health illnesses such as depression, suicide and anxiety disorders.
The Black Dog Institute is an Australian research institute focused on investigating mental health issues across the lifespan. Research findings have been translated into evidence-based tools and mobile device applications (Apps).
Services Australia’s Financial Information Service can help individuals to make informed decisions regarding finances.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) provides guidance useful for supporting employees who have physical health concerns impacting their work.
Trauma-informed guidance to accompany the release of 'Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces'. The Resource outlines trauma such as bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault and its impacts.