Mindful Employer at West Yorkshire Combined Authority

West Yorkshire Combined Authority have signed the ‘Charter for Employers Positive about Mental Health’, which demonstrates our commitment to creating a supportive and open culture, where colleagues feel able to talk about mental health confidently, and aspire to appropriately support the mental wellbeing of all staff.

By signing the Charter, we have made a public declaration of our ambition to support the mental health and wellbeing of our staff by agreeing to uphold the following values:

• To provide non-judgemental and proactive support to staff with experience of mental ill-health
• To not make assumptions about a person with a mental health condition and their ability to work
• To be positive and enabling toward all employees and applicants with a mental health condition
• To support line managers in managing mental health in the workplace
• To ensure they are fair in the recruitment of new staff in accordance with the Equality Act (2010)
• To make it clear that people who have experience of mental ill-health will not be discriminated against