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Mental Health in a Modern Work Environment: Supporting Employee Mental Health

Online Event 22 June 2022, 9:00am

Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Barbara Pendry, Principal Lecturer, Department of Bioscience, School of Health, Sport, and Bioscience
9:40am
Keynote Address: Prioritising Mental Health And Wellbeing Of Employees To Facilitate A Compassionate And Understanding Workplace
  • Discovering benefits of advancing wellbeing at workplace and improving productivity by assessing employees’ mental health
  • Analysing the wellbeing policy and principles in order to offer the best support to employees’ mental health
  • Move toward a compassionate workplace by investing in and participating the Workplace Wellbeing Index
  • Maximising the usage of toolkits and resources at the Mental Health At Work website to search for the best practices of advancing mental health policies and awareness
  • Recognising the importance of providing training to the leadership team to ensure sufficient knowledge, awareness, and management skills are in place to handle mental health issues at workplace
Paul Farmer CBE, Chief Executive Officer, MIND
10:00am
Keynote Address: Advancing Equality in Mental Health
  • Exploring a more holistic perspective of mental health through the lens of equality when conducting intervention at the workplace 
  • Going beyond an organisation to influence the society and community as a whole
  • Learning the two-folded relationships between equality and mental health - how to use CSR to support equality in mental health and how your workplace can address the issue
  • Presenting the case studies on how to advance racial equality while talking about mental health 
Sarah Hughes, CEO, Centre for Mental Health
10:20am
Prioritising Workplace Wellbeing By Reducing Return-To-Office Anxiety
  • Building, transcending, and maintaining resilience at the workplace
  • Practicing how to release stress on a daily basis
  • Developing practical guidance for reducing employees' burn-out
Charlène Gisèle Bourliout, Founder and CEO, Charlène Gisèle LtD
10:40am
The Government's Mental Health And Wellbeing Plan
  • Sharing the latest Government's plan and consultations to support the employees' mental health
Sam Taylor-Wilmshurst, Head of Employer Obligations and Mental Health in the Workplace, The Department for Work and Pensions
10:50am
Questions And Answers Session
11:00am
Break And Networking
11:35am
Case Study: Welcoming Diverse Initiatives To Support Individual Employees
  • Introducing qualified college nurses to provide individual mental health support
  • Establishing external partnerships to expand the knowledge around mental health
  • Setting up goals and strategies for flexible working/studying to enable better transition to the pre-lockdown period
Lisa Harris, Wellbeing Team Coordinator, Reaseheath College
11:55am
Keynote Address: Supporting Employee Mental Health By Reducing Work Stress Via Implementing The Management Standards Approaches
  • Investigating the roots of stress at workplace and developing solutions by looking into six areas of work design – demands, control, support, relationships, roles, and change
  • Underpinning the evidence of work stress being one of the main reasons behind mental ill health at workplace
  • Encouraging open conversation on work stress by taking step-by-step transformation at the organisational level
  • Strengthening the role of line manager in reducing sources of stress
  • Developing the policies and procedures that reflect current ways of working and adapt with constantly changing working environments
Sarah Newton, Chair, Health and Safety Executive
12:15pm
Championing Hybrid Working: Tackling Loneliness And Wellbeing Through Spatial Design
  • Championing hybrid working by recognising the increasing importance of the workplace in supporting belonging
  • Tackling loneliness and designing for sociability
  • Exploring the influence of spatial design on mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
  • Presenting examples of human-centred design approaches to facilitate wellbeing at work


Natasha Reid, Founder, Matter, Space, Soul
12:35pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:55pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Case Study: Maintaining Employees' Mental Health At The Virtual Working Space
  • Applying innovative approaches to line-manage virtual volunteers
  • Embedding wellbeing session into staff's work through one-to-one and group support
  • Gaining ideas on how to develop practical strategies that prioritise mental health for your virtual employees
Emily Cherry, Trustee, My Black Dog
2:00pm
Case Study: Creating A Positive Working Environment By Applying Emotional Intelligence Framework
  • Analysing how interaction will affect the work relationship between the management and employees
  • Developing individualised emotional intelligence techniques and strategies to create a positive working environment
  • Exploring the ways to present better emotional intelligence by applying the self-regard and regard-for-others perspectives
  • Understanding how emotional intelligence would improve the workforce's mental health and wellbeing
Jim Rees, Executive Coach, The EI Guru
2:20pm
Keynote Address: How Can HR Support Employee Experiencing Loneliness
  • Advising on how the HR in your company can prevent the employee’s feelings of loneliness
  • Advancing intersectionality at workplace, including gender, age, and race
  • Encouraging openness and trust between employees and managers
Sarah McIntosh, Director of Client Delivery, Mental Health First Aid England
2:40pm
Case Study: Building An Inclusive And Representative Workplace To Support The Mental Health Of Employees From Minority Ethnic Groups
  • Providing the best workplace support to the ethnic minority employees by understanding the varying issues and stigmas found across different cultural backgrounds
  • Unpacking intersectionality and the specific challenges of those facing multiple inequalities
  • Striving to develop an actively anti-racist workplace
  • Exploring five steps and practices to ensure an inclusive workplace that creates positive mental health for their employees who are from a Minority Ethnic background
  • Collecting and utilising data to identify better mental health needs and performance of different demographic groups
Farimah Darbyshire, Head of Programmes and External Relations, City Mental Health Alliance UK
3:00pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:20pm
Chair's Summary And Close

*Programme is subject to change.

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