Additional Support Resources
The following is a list of additional resources designed to support employees and managers navigating cancer in the workplace.
Support Resources from Macmillan:
For people living with cancer
- Your rights at work when you are affected by cancer
- Work and Cancer Guide
- Questions to ask about work and cancer
For people caring for someone with cancer
For line managers
- Macmillan: Managing Cancer in the workplace guide: An employer’s guide to supporting staff affected by cancer - produced in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
- Top ten tips for line managers
Support from Working with Cancer Charity:
Working with Cancer, a dedicated charity, provides confidential one-on-one career coaching for employees, available over the phone or in person. Their specialised coaching approaches address both the physical and psychological challenges associated with cancer, offering invaluable support that complements and enhances Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and Occupational Health services.
Eligible employees can seek funding through Access to Work for up to six one-hour coaching sessions.
Click here to learn more and take the next step.
Support Resources from The Beatson Cancer Charity:
- 1:1 support for a person experiencing cancer or with caring responsibilities for someone with a cancer diagnosis, find out more at Health & Work Service | Beatson Cancer Charity.
- Workshops on Adjusting to working life following a cancer diagnosis and Managing difficult emotions at work. To enquire about these workshops please email: healthandworkservice@beatsoncancercharity.org or call 0141 212 0505.
- Group Programmes (Fear of Cancer Recurrence and Living with Uncertainty). These aim to support with the anxiety around cancer coming back (Fear of Cancer Recurrence), while Living with Uncertainty supports with those living with cancer. Details can be found at Group Support | Beatson Cancer Charity.
Financial Wellbeing information for employees:
- MacMillan’s financial guides and benefits advisers can be contacted on 0808 808 00 00, or visit macmillan.org.uk/moneyworries.
- MoneyHelper - A free service provided by the Money and Pensions Service: org.uk/en
- How to sort out your money if you become ill or disabled - org.uk/en/family-and-care/illness-and-disability/how-to-sort-out-your-money-if-you-become-ill-or-disabled
- Death and bereavement - org.uk/en/family-and-care/death-and-bereavement
Talking about death and dying and bereavement support:
- Hospice UK, Dying Matters resources
- Marie Curie, Bereavement and grief at work
- The Beatson provide bereavement support, for more information call 0141 212 0505 or email Bereavementsupport@beatsoncancercharity.org or visit beatsoncancercharity.org/bereavement-support/
- University's Bereavement Guidance for Line Managers
Health and wellness programmes
- University Active Lifestyle Wellbeing Programme
- Able Futures, Mental Health Support and Guidance - call Able Futures on 0800 321 3137 or visit able-futures.co.uk to sign up online.
- Employee Assistance Programme - provides free and confidential support to all University of Glasgow colleagues and their immediate family members. Support and advice is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Contact the EAP on 0800 028 0199. For further information on our EAP services or related wellbeing resources colleagues can access the University's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
University Support Networks
- Prostate Cancer Wellbeing Support Group - Colleagues seeking more information about the University's Prostate Cancer Support Group can contact prostate-awareness@glasgow.ac.uk or make contact via MS Team Channel
- Cancer in the Workplace Lived Experience Ambassador Network - Colleagues seeking support from the University's Cancer in the Workplace Lived Experience Ambassador Network can access via: University of Glasgow - Health & Wellbeing - Physical Wellbeing - Lived Experience Ambassadors