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Creating mentally healthy workplaces
Mindful Employer Leeds Network
12 October 2015
Agenda & Housekeeping
15:30 Welcome & Introductions
15:40 How to create a business case for wellbeing in your organisation - Who are Mindful Employer and how can we help?
16:05 Break
16:15 Emma Hammond: bringing a legal perspective to the benefits of wellbeing in the workplace
16:20 Genus Law case study: Practicing what we preach
17:00 Coffee & networking
17:30 Close
MINDFUL EMPLOYER Leeds
What is MINDFUL EMPLOYER?
• Charter – www.mindfulemployer.net
• Local support
• Network
• Events – mindfulemployerleeds.com
• Steering Group
• Mindful Employer officer
Who’s involved? • The MINDFUL EMPLOYER Network involves over 100
employers across the Leeds City region
Why get involved?
• Business case: cost of ignoring the issue & benefit of addressing it
• Legal case: requirement to adhere to health & safety legislation, employment law, Equality Act 2010
• Ethical case: the sort of employer people want to work for
• No commitment required to join the Network
• Advice & guidance offered free of charge
• Signing the charter is a visible statement to employees, clients & investors
Mental health and the workplace:
What makes a Mindful
Employer?
Key Principles
1. By Employers, For Employers
2. Good Practices not Great Promises
3. Adapted and Adopted
4. Safe People not Scary Places
1. How are mental health and stress talked about at your organisation?
2. Does your organisation offer flexible working practices?
3. Offer formal wellbeing support?
4. Do you have regular catch-ups or one-to-ones with your manager?
5. Are you praised and your efforts acknowledged?
6. How do you look after your own mental health at work?
Break
Wellbeing in the workplace
• Why bother?
• Much more than just “caring” for your people.
• Tangible organisational and legal benefits
The Genus Programme
• Who are we?
• What did we do and why?
• Budgetary considerations
• Programme content
• Feedback
What next?
• Check out the websites:
www.mindfulemployerleeds.com
www.mindfulemployer.net
• Join the Leeds Mindful Employer Network
• Sign the MINDFUL EMPLOYER charter
• Book some training – skills for managers, mental health awareness, Mental Health First Aid
• Read the Line Managers’ Resource
• Get in touch to find out more
Sarah Moore
MINDFUL EMPLOYER Coordinator
Contact me via -
Tel: 0113 230 2631
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @MindEmployerLds
Web: mindfulemployerleeds.com