A New Wellness Action Plan

SOHAS has been using wellness action plans (WAP) since 2009 when they were identified in the Perkins review as an effective way for employees to articulate how their mental health could be affected by their work.

Now have developed a new version that allows employees to give more information on their mental health to their employer to keep them in work. This version takes our learning from the people we’ve helped to complete a WAP and takes some information from the Allied Professional Fit Note.

We recommend that employees complete the WAP in written form that can be put into an employees HR file as it avoids the issue if the employee has a change of manager. We think this version of the WAP a useful step on from the existing WAP that is currently available.