The Second Annual Health and Wellbeing at Work Event
Online Conference 29 November 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Lily Chao, Institute of Government & Public Policy
9:40am
Keynote Address: ReBuilding Resilience In The Workforce - Where Have We Been And Where Should We Be Going?
- What has been the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of the frontline workforce?
- How are the frontline workforce doing now?
- What should we be doing to rebuild resilience in the workforce?
Dr Jo Billings, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Associate Clinical Professor, UCL Division of Psychiatry
10:00am
Keynote Address: Living With Mental Health Illness
Aimee Carton, Director of Digital Health Innovation, Concentrix
10:20am
Keynote Address: Positive Disruption In Workplace Wellbeing – Are We Really Measuring Impact?
Nuzhad Chagan, Head of Wellbeing Strategy, Govox
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
Keynote Address: How Design Affects Mental Health, Productivity and Staff Satisfaction
- Explore the interaction between design and mental health
- Look at the impacts that can have on issues such as productivity, absenteeism and staff retention
- Consider how we might rethink office design post-Covid, as staff begin to expect more from the workplace to make it worth the commute
Ben Channon, Director, Ekkist
11:50am
Navigating The Future Of Flexible Working Through An Occupational Safety, Health And Wellbeing Lens– From Rhetoric To Practice
- Should flexible working conditions be a policy or a business-driven mandate
- The business case for flexible working conditions, a nice-to-have or part of a holistic worker-centric strategy
- How to get the culture right in organisations
- Flexible working for all, a utopian vision, or a pragmatic necessity
Dr Iván Williams Jiménez, Policy Development Manager, IOSH
12:10pm
Looking After Our NHS – Creating A Sense Of Belonging
- Outline why the health and wellbeing of our staff is so important to our business
- Highlight some of the equality and diversity challenges we encounter as the largest employer in the UK
- Identify the connections and overlap between the health and wellbeing and diversity agendas – and the link to belonging
- Signpost some useful resources and examples of good practice within the NHS in these areas
Becky Tasker, Programme Manager, NHS Employers and Steven Weeks, Senior Policy Advisor, NHS Employers
12:30pm
Questions and Answers Session
12:50pm
Lunch and Networking
1:40pm
Keynote Address: Growing Occupational Health And Wellbeing In The NHS
- Growing the strategic identity of OHWB
- Growing our OHWB services across systems
- Growing our OHWB people
- Growing OHWB impact and evidence-based practise
Shriti Pattani, President, Society of Occupational Medicine
2:00pm
Corporate Study: Driving Workplace Productivity And Job Fulfillment
- Discussing how common problems in the workplace stem from too many disruptions, subsequently altering the brain's ability to focus
- Sharing how optimising peak "flow states" of cognitive processing can improve workplace productivity and job fulfillment
- Explaining how inflammation, pain and lack of physical movement change the brain
- Focusing on solutions utilising how low level laser therapy, exercise, and healthy habits to improve cognitive processing and quality of life in the workplace
Dr Erik Reis, Conference and Events Manager, Erchonia Lasers LtD
2:20pm
Seminar Session: Navigating Changes Through A Strengths-Based Approach
- The SAFE response to a VUCA world
- How a strengths mindset can help with the change
- Controlling the controllables
- The benefits of knowing your strengths - and where they need to be managed
Scott Christie, Head of Training & Integration, Strengthscope
2:50pm
Financial Wellbeing In The Workplace
- An exploration into what financial wellbeing is
- How financial wellbeing is important in the workplace
- How you can support your employees’ financial wellbeing
- Implementing a wellbeing service
Andy Wealthall, Commercial Director, Lifetime FM
3:10pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:30pm
Chair's Summary Close
*Programme subject to change without notice