Monthly Campaigns: Returning to work after parental leave

When one of your team members goes on parental leave it can be an exciting time. However, there are still many underlying stressors that can impact their wellbeing. So, utilise these resources and share them far and wide!

Monthly Campaigns: Returning to work after parental leave

When one of your team members goes on parental leave it can be an exciting time. However, there are still many underlying stressors that can impact their wellbeing. So, utilise these resources and share them far and wide!

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Resources, Articles, Podcast, Tipsheets...

Here are all the various resources we offer, from tipsheets and posters to podcasts and videos. We want to set you up for success, so please download or take a look at what we have to offer and share them with your employees!

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Core EAP Materials

Download for individual EAP stream flyers and EAP wheel poster.

Additional Resources Pack

Download for your 2024 Wellbeing Calendar, EAP App Flyer, Specialist Helplines, EAP Portal Poster.

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Launch Material

Download for internal comms such as Email Signature, EAP Wheel Email Signature, Bespoke EAP Wheel Email Signature, and the new EAP Provider Poster. 

Tipsheets to download

Practical support for every stage

Whether you’re getting ready to take parental leave or planning your return, these quick tipsheets make it easier to feel prepared, supported, and confident.

Before leave

Going on parental leave

A simple checklist to help your employees plan ahead — from conversations with their manager to practical handover tips, boundaries, and staying connected in a way that suits them.

  • Planning and handover prompts
  • Options for staying in touch
  • Wellbeing and support reminders
Download tipsheet
Returning to work

Returning to work after parental leave

Support for the emotional and practical side of returning — building confidence, resetting routines, managing the mental load, and finding a pace that works.

  • Confidence + coping strategies
  • Returning-to-work conversation tips
  • Boundaries, routines and self-care
Download tipsheet
Client-ready poster

Share support for returning parents

Returning to work after parental leave can feel like a big shift. Help your people know they’re not alone — support is available anytime, anywhere through your Converge EAP.

Return to work after parental leave support poster preview
Download and add to your intranet, email, Teams/Slack, or noticeboards.

Support is available for your people returning to work

Transitions can bring a mix of emotions — confidence dips, mental load, new routines, and changing priorities. This poster helps employees understand what support is available and how to access it.

  • EAP counselling for stress, anxiety, overwhelm, relationships and more
  • Career coaching to rebuild confidence, clarity and goals
  • Nutrition support to fuel energy, mood and busy routines
  • Manager support to help leaders guide safe, supportive conversations
  • Financial coaching to support with financial pressures and minimise money stressors and apprehension
Download poster (PDF)
Tip: Add this to your onboarding, parental leave packs, and return-to-work comms.
Thrive Podcast

Women’s Health: Caring for others — without losing yourself

In this episode, we explore the often-invisible burden of caring for others — at home and at work — and what it can mean to step away from work to undertake parental leave. We discuss how to stay connected in ways that feel right for you, and practical self-care strategies to support wellbeing through transition and return.

Women’s Health Wellbeing & parental leave Open on YouTube
Guest speaker
Pat Favorito, Clinical Manager

What we cover

  • The mental load of caring — why it builds up, and how to notice the signs early
  • Parental leave and identity shifts — navigating change, confidence dips, and mixed emotions
  • Staying connected (your way) — realistic touchpoints with work, without pressure
  • Self-care that actually fits — small, sustainable strategies for busy routines
Watch the episode
Tell your team to take what they need from this conversation — even one small change can help them feel steadier.
Converge App

Support in your pocket — before, during and after parental leave

Looking for guidance you can actually use? The Converge App includes Insights and Challenges designed to help you feel prepared when going on parental leave and steadier when returning to work.

What you’ll find inside the app

If one of your team members is planning time away after having a child, it's essential they stay connected, and step back into work routines effectively when returning. In the Converge App we have bite-sized support to guide them through their next steps.

Insights

Going on parental leave

Practical Insights covering planning, handovers, boundaries, and ways to stay connected in a way that works for your team.

Insights

Returning to work

Supportive reads on confidence, routines, managing the mental load, and easing back into work at their pace.

Challenges

Build healthy habits

Challenges that help your staff stay on top of managing finances, nutrition and hydration guidance, sleep, movement, and other wellbeing essentials.

Tip: Prompt your team to use our Insights when they need perspective — and Challenges when they want a simple plan to follow.