Health @ Work Summit 2010

Summary

Assessing, Addressing and Embedding Your Health Agenda

Even a small investment in the health of your employees can pay big dividends for your business; reducing absenteeism and increasing productivity as well as helping to increase motivation and engagement amongst your workforce.

This timely event has been specifically designed to address all of your workplace health related issues; from legal liabilities and responsibilities and examples of high impact ways to reduce sickness absence,to training managers to notice and support employees with mental health problems and looking at the ROI of holistic wellness programmes

Attend Symposium Events’ 5th Annual Health @ Work Summit to:

• Combat workplace stress
• Understand the ’fit note’ and make it work for you
• Determine the link between leadership, wellbeing and engagement
• Prevent injury and musculoskeletal disorders
• Take a pro-active approach to absence management
• Build a culture of safe working
• Understand the legal issues surrounding sick pay, annual leave and redundancy or dismissal
• Tackle the stigma of mental ill health

Confirmed speakers for Health @ Work Summit 2010 include:

• Institute for Employment Studies – Jim Hillage, Director of Research
• nef – Nic Marks, Founder of Centre for Wellbeing
• Department for Work and Pensions – Dr James Bolton, Deputy Chief Medical Officer
• Royal Mail Group – Dr Steve Boorman, Director of Corporate Responsibility and Chief Medical Officer
• Dechert LLP – Charles Wynn-Evans, Partner, Head of Employment Law
• Deloitte – Val Stevenson, HR Director
• Nestle UK Ltd – Dr David Batman, Consultant Occupational Physician, Head of Employee Wellness
• Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Karl Hickman, Divisional HR Manager
• First Group – Nicola MacPherson, Occupational Health Manager
• SELEX Galileo – Jane Saunders, Occupational Health Adviser
• Olympic Delivery Authority – Stephanie Martin-Halls, Park Health Team Manager, and Melodie Gilbert, Head of Work-Related Ill Health Prevention Programme
• Centrica – Tricia O’Neill, Group Head of Health
• AXA PPP healthcare – David Prosser, Strategic Development Manager
• CIPD – Ben Willmott, Employee Relations Adviser
• John Lewis – Jenny Mason, Occupational Health Adviser
• Nuffield Health – Laura Kerby, Managing Director – Clinical Products and Services
• The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health – Helen Lockett, Associate Director
• Keytools Ltd – Paul Goddard, Senior Consultant
• RehabWorks Ltd – Mark Armour, Operations Director

Who should attend?

• HR Directors and Heads of HR
• Occupational Health Managers and Advisers
• Chief Medical Officers
• Managers of Health and Wellbeing
• Managers of Health and Safety
• Heads of Employee Relations
• Corporate Social Responsibility Managers
• Rewards and Benefits Professionals

Programme

Programme – Day 1

Programme Day Two

Programme – Day 2

Speakers

Confirmed Speakers for Health @ Work Summit 2010 Include:

Caroline Mellor

Caroline Mellor has worked in OH for 14 years, and has been employed for the past 8 years by Unilever UK Foods in Trafford Park as an Occupational Health Nurse. She has broad experience including legal compliance activities, health surveillance, case management, working closely with individuals and line management to ensure best outcome and management of sickness absence. Caroline partners the senior management team on improvement projects, highlighting the importance of working as a multi-disciplinary team, to ensure every aspect of health and safety is focused on. In addition, at the weekends during football season she works as a sports injury nurse, and is currently doing a home learning course in management of sports injuries, sports massage and sports psychology, which has helped and assisted in the understanding of early management of musculoskeletal disorders

Charles Wynn-Evans

Charles Wynn-Evans heads Dechert’s London employment practice. His work covers all employment-related matters, including the employment aspects of corporate transactions as well as unfair and wrongful dismissal, sex and race discrimination, industrial action, boardroom disputes, restrictive covenants, agreed terminations, tax issues and all employment-related litigation matters. He is a member of the Law Society’s Employment Law Committee and the City of London Law Society’s Employment Law Committee and is a CEDR accredited mediator.

David Prosser

David is responsible for AXA’s sickness absence management services. With over 15 years financial services and employee benefit consultancy experience, David has worked with large organisations in developing workforce health management and attendance improvement programmes to underpin strategic business objectives. Prior to this, David was at the Department of Health advising Ministers on NHS issues.

Dr David Batman

Dr David Batman qualified in 1973 and worked initially for 11 years as a General Practitioner. Following further higher specialist training as a consultant in occupational medicine he has been working for the last 20 years with Nestlé UK and Ireland as Chief Medical Officer, Head of Safety and Employee Wellness.

During his time in Nestlé, he introduced a range of health, safety and wellness programs at all levels of the business and has a particular interest in mental health at work and addressing performance issues in an ageing workforce.

He retired from full time work with Nestlé in 2008 but continues his role with Nestlé on a part time basis. He is also working as a Consultant Occupational Health Physician with his own business DCB Consulting.

Duncan Spencer

Duncan Spencer joined Waitrose as the Divisional Safety Manager in 2007. Prior to this he spent 9 years as a consultant working with large national and international organisations in different sectors including retail, manufacturing, emergency services, military and government departments. His work included writing, updating and delivering IOSH safety and IRM business risk courses.

Doug Smale

Doug has 26 years experience in the NHS, including practice in anaesthetics, theatres and emergency departments and anaesthetic and operating theatre management.

Doug’s qualifications include: Operating Department Practitioner, Advance life-support Instructor,Major incident management, Master in Business administration, MBA.

At present Doug is working as a clinical service transformation facilitator for a whole hospitalcentralisation and service redevelopment project, including the commissioning of a £152 million PFI hospital building.

Doug’s research and interest include: achieving business advantage through people, the challenges of motivation in a fast moving business environment, the challenges and impact of leadership within traditional organisations, the influences on leadership motivation and behaviour.

Helen Lockett

Helen Lockett is the Associate Director of Employment at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Helen has carried out research and service development in the fields of employment and mental health and disabilities for 15 years, after graduating in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. Helen is currently completing an MBA at the University of Bradford, School of Management, through their distance learning programme.

Mark Armour

Mark graduated in 1992 from Queens College Glasgow with a Bachelors Degree in Physiotherapy before going on to complete a Masters Degree in Health Sciences at Edinburgh University.
Mark began his career in occupational Physiotherapy within Scottish Power. In 2004 he became involved in the Condition Management programme pilot in Argyle and Clyde. As part of this role Mark was seconded to the Department of Work and Pensions Scottish Incapacity Benefit Innovations unit. In this role he was tasked with facilitating joint working between the NHS, job centre plus and other partner organisations.
Mark joined RehabWorks in January 2006 as Operations Director and is currently responsible for providing Biopsychosocial physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to employer’s insurers and the DWP, returning almost 10,000 people to full working duties each year.

Denise Mortimer

Denise Mortimer has a rich history of helping people get the best out of themselves. Currently, she is delivering a whole range of wellbeing initiatives to staff at an NHS Trust including: using an Appreciative Inquiry approach for team-building events; consultation and development of corporate values and vision; being lead advisor to staff on issues regarding wellbeing at work; providing exercise classes, health checks and healthy eating workshops; creating a range of opportunities and events for engaging staff in workplace activities.
Denise’s qualifications include a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology, BSc in Sports Science, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (specialising in Emotional Intelligence), and a diploma in Life Coaching. Always curious about how to improve work life, Denise’s Master’s thesis was based on the factors that make an organisation an attractive place to work.
Denise’s infectious enthusiasm and can-do attitude drive people either up the wall or into inspired action!

Laura Kerby

Laura Kerby is the Managing Director of Clinical Products and Services at Nuffield Health and was the founding Operations Director of Sona Group, which was bought by Nuffield in 2005.
After the acquisition she directed the operational re-engineering and re-positioning of the health assessment business and managed the development of the largest physiotherapy network in the private sector.
Prior to this she worked as a Regional Manager for Forte Hotels and as a Spa Consultant to Molton Brown and the Thistle Hotel Group.
Laura will be instrumental in the future creation of the health differential for Nuffield Health.

Kathryn Gilbertson

Kathryn is a director and head of the Greenwoods Litigation Department. She led the successful defence of architect Gillian Beckingham who was charged with seven counts of manslaughter following the UK’s largest outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in Barrow.
She advises companies on corporate risk management including health and safety, crisis management and anti-corruption policies. She is renowned for her innovative approach that enables her clients to achieve their corporate goals without compromising their compliance strategies.
Kathryn has a unique insight into the regulatory regimes in which all companies’ trade in the UK, because of her 10 years experience as a Prosecutor/Compliance Officer with various government agencies.

Ben Willmott

Ben Willmott joined the Institute in October 2003. He is responsible for ensuring the CIPD’s interests are represented across a wide range of public policy areas including stress, data protection, health and safety and statutory dispute resolution.
His others areas of interest include absence management, working time and the Information and Consultation Directive.

Nicola MacPherson

Nicola started her career in Occupational Health as a Practice Nurse/ Occupational Health Advisor with BUPA in 1997.
She went on to become Clinical Manager of Glasgow and Newcastle Wellness Centres.
Nicola joined First ScotRail in 2007 as Occupational Health Advisor and went on to become Occupational Health Manager with First Group which is an organisation made up of 40 000 employees in the U.K and 90 000 employees in the U.S.

Val Stephenson

Val Stevenson is a member of the HR Leadership Team at Deloitte and helps develop and support the firm’s Talent Strategy.
Val has spent most of her working life in a professional services environment and joined Deloitte as part of the Andersen transaction in 2002.
Her current HR Director role in Deloitte covers both Employee Engagement and Relations.
As well as being involved in the firm’s Diversity and Internal Communication programmes, Val is also responsible for wellbeing at Deloitte and has launched a number of successful initiatives under Well Now which is Deloitte’s broad umbrella for all things relating to health, fitness and wellbeing at work.

Jane Huntley

Jane Huntley is Associate Director in the Centre for Public Health Excellence at NICE. Recently she has overseen the development of NICE guidance on the Management of Long Term Sickness Absence, Mental Well-Being at Work and Workplace Physical Activity. Previously at the Health Development Agency she was Head of Employment and Health. She has more than two decades worth of experience of developing and managing workplace health programmes. Jane represented the UK on the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion and has undertaken development work for the World Health Organisation.

Jane Saunders

Jane Saunders is currently the Occupational Health Manager at SELEX Galileo. She has gained a wealth of experience of Occupational Health including the NHS, Public Health Laboratory, Investment Banking and the Defence Industry. Whilst working for SELEX Galileo, Jane has developed the Occupational Health service into a proactive service incorporating wellbeing, striving for evidence-based practice and standardising the OH service across all UK sites.

Jenny Mason

Jenny Mason is an Occupational Health Adviser for the John Lewis Partnership and has worked in the field of Occupational Health for over ten years. Relatively new to retail, she joined John Lewis in April 2009, having previously worked for Lotus Cars in Norfolk and other engineering and manufacturing industries. A Registered General Nurse, Jenny graduated at the University of East Anglia and Warwick University and has most recently successfully completed the NEBOSH, Health and Safety qualification. Jenny is also a member of the Editorial Board of Occupational Health Journal.

Jim Hillage

Jim Hillage has responsibility for developing the IES’s overall research capability and, with others, delivering research and evaluation services to public policy clients. He is able to draw on almost thirty years’ experience of researching into labour market and employment issues from an individual and an employer perspective. He has also led the NICE review of evidence about interventions to reduce long-term sickness absence and is currently leading the consortium evaluating the Fit for Work pilot programme

Karl Hickman

Karl Hickman is a Senior NHS HR Manager with a particular interest in change management. Karl holds a BA (Hons) in Social Policy, MA in Employment Law, is a Chartered MCIPD, MCIArb and qualified mediator.

Paul Goddard

RSI expert, Paul Goddard, has been advising organisations on computer access for 20 years. As Senior Consultant at Keytools, Paul’s focus is to help expand the knowledge and skills of professionals supporting both disabled people and those who have developed MSDs. Recent activities include major government led projects for Social Inclusion, the Home Access programme and other Digital Inclusion projects. In the private sector, Paul has led the delivery of workforce-wide solutions for a number of large organisations, delivering significant absence and cost reduction benefits through the adoption of preventative strategies. Paul is also collaborating on a new project with London South Bank University to deliver the UKs first postgraduate qualification for professionals in higher education student support.

Sarah Barnes

Sarah Barnes joined Crawley Borough Council from the private sector in 2002 and is now working as the HR Policy and Equalities Manager, playing a leading role in driving through changes to place the Council at the leading edge of best practice and in line with employment legislation. This has included taking a strategic approach to managing absence which has already resulted in significant reduction in sickness levels and the introduction of health and wellbeing initiatives for staff

Melodie Gilbert

Melodie Gilbert is the Head of the Work-Related Ill Health Prevention programme for the London 2012 Olympic Project. She is a consultant occupational hygienist with a working knowledge of occupational hygiene in many industry sectors including demolition and construction. Melodie specialises in occupational ill health prevention on a strategic level.

Stephanie Martin-Halls

Stephanie Martin-Halls is the Occupational Health Manager for the London 2012 Olympic Project. She has had extensive nursing experience within the NHS, private and military sectors in both primary and secondary care. For the past 7 years she has specialised in the management of large construction projects such as the Heathrow Terminal 5 project and currently the Olympic Park.

Dr Steve Boorman

Dr Steve Boorman is Director of Corporate Responsibility, and Chief Medical Adviser to Royal Mail Group as well as NHS Workforce Health & Wellbeing lead reviewer. Steve is an experienced consultant in occupational health. He manages a small team of specialists whose remit includes developing policy and approaches across areas of health, safety and environment within one of the UK’s largest businesses, Royal Mail. Steve has been directly involved in the cross business initiatives on managing attendance and supporting changes to make the business “a Great Place to Work” in. He was also involved in redesigning the organisation’s ill health retirement scheme, and improving opportunities for rehabilitation.

Eileen Roddis

Eileen Roddis joined Vodafone in 2004 as a Health, Safety and Environment Adviser. Prior to this she worked as the Safety Adviser for a scientific research institute and also the Wiltshire Fire Brigade. Within Vodafone she has worked with all business areas to deliver successful safety performance and since 2005 has held responsibility for delivering their wellbeing programme.

Nic Marks

Nic Marks is Founder of the Centre for Wellbeing and has led the wellbeing programme at NEF since 2001. Nic is a recognised expert in the field of wellbeing research and undertakes innovative research in the use of wellbeing indicators in public policy environments. Nic has expertise in relation to individual, social, economic and environmental indicators of wellbeing and has previously applied his work in policy fields as diverse as sustainable development, health and social care, education, culture and the arts, and employment. Nic has experience of devising methodologies to measure wellbeing, statistical and analytical skills, and a proven ability to interpret findings in a way that makes sense for policy makers, practitioners and the general public. He also has a particular interest in how objective and subjective measures can be used alongside each other to create national and local accounts of wellbeing and in how we can best increase wellbeing within our environmental limits.

Bridget Juniper

Bridget Juniper spent nearly twenty years working in corporate communications and employee engagement. She left the corporate world to work in the Patient Reported Outcomes field and specialised in the development, validation and distribution of health related quality of life (HRQL) instruments. During this period, Bridget completed an award-winning MSc in Clinical Research and became interested in applying the HRQL measurement approach to employee populations. Bridget now works with organisations to evaluate employee well-being populations and is furthering her academic interest with a PhD at Cranfield University.

Tricia O’Neill

Tricia O’Neill is currently Group Head of Health for Centrica where she has worked for the last 8 years, with responsibility for strategic direction for occupational health and wellbeing provision in the UK and abroad. Tricia previously worked for Procter and Gamble in an EMEA role and has 21 years experience in the Occupational Health field.

Dr James Bolton

Dr James Bolton is Deputy Director for Health within the Health, Work and Wellbeing Directorate. He is also Deputy Chief Medical Adviser, leading on Health and Benefits Policy as well as some key health and work initiatives. He has overall responsibility for development and maintenance of policy in relation to health aspects of benefit entitlement assesments; for the overview of professional standards in relation to the provision of medical services to the department; for support to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council; and is the Senior Responsible Officer for initiatives such as the Fit Note. He leads on the medical aspects of welfare reform policy development and implementation as well as contributing to development of the Directorate’s overall strategy on Disabiliity and Work.

Terry Tuxford

Terry Tuxford is Head of Operational Experience and Target Zero Programme Manager at Atomic Weapons Establishment. Terry is a Project Controls Professional and International Risk Manager with extensive and successful commercial proposal development, project management, estimating and cost engineering experience. He has recently been involved in redirecting and managing change in the culture of a major former government establishment. Tasked some 3 years ago by AWE to introduce project management disciplines into its Safety Improvement Programme, Terry has been working with his team to develop and deliver the Target Zero Road Map; a personal safety journey for everyone who works at AWE.

Louise Fernandes-Owen

Louise Fernandes-Owen is the Professional Support Lawyer in the Employment and Pensions Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. With a broad experience of both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues, she has advised on a wide variety of matters, ranging from complex discrimination issues, managing sickness absence and disciplinary and grievance matters to unfair dismissal, redundancies, TUPE transfers and whistle blowing.

Most recently, Louise has been involved in the Employment and Pension Group’s work with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, to draft the new Employment Statutory Code of Practice which will accompany the Equality Bill. Louise undertook a project management role for this significant, and complex, drafting exercise and worked on key sections of the draft Code of Practice, which will link the new legislation and advisers, employers, employees and Employment Tribunals.

Sponsors

AXA PPP healthcare

At AXA PPP healthcare, we’ve been committed to the UK medical insurance market for over 65 years and are one of the UK’s leading medical insurance providers. Today AXA PPP healthcare can assist you in managing the risks to your organisation through our extensive range of employee assistance & wellbeing programmes, occupational health and sickness absence management service delivered by AXA ICAS. AXA ICAS is a global provider of health and wellbeing services supporting organisations and individuals in over 60 countries throughout the World. We believe that as part of AXA PPP healthcare we can offer your organisation an integrated solution to meet your business needs.

Nuffield Health

Nuffield Health helps employees get healthy and stay healthy. We believe that the real health of a company should be judged, not just on its revenue, but also on the health and wellbeing of its employees.

We’ve brought together 15,000 experts from every area of health: Consultants, GPs, Physiotherapists, Physiologists, Nutritionists, Personal Trainers, Surgeons, Health Club Managers as well as Fitness Instructors and Spa Therapists. Clients can choose to use one or all of their services – whatever suits their company and employees best.

Our expertise combines health assessments, corporate fitness, hospitals, physiotherapy and medical services and over 50 commercial health clubs in a network of over 200 facilities throughout the UK. We’ve brought all this together to form one complete care service. It’s this alternative view that can help companies become so much healthier and more productive.

As a not for profit organisation we reinvest every penny we make back into our facilities, services and expertise – helping our clients run healthier, happier and more effective businesses.

Keytools Ltd

Keytools passionately believes that prevention is better than cure, and for 20 years has been pioneering ergonomic well-being for computer users.

Offering products, advice and training accredited by a number of organisations, including the College of Occupational Therapy, Keytools’ staff are experts in reducing absenteeism and increasing productivity.

RehabWorks Ltd

RehabWorks Ltd is one of the UK’s leading and most established providers of return to work rehabilitation and treatment services. RehabWorks has built an enviable reputation in the market for its strong clinical governance by adopting an evidence based model, setting the business apart from its competitors.

While employees are able to improve their physical and mental wellbeing, RehabWorks’ clients benefit from a healthier workforce and the cost savings from reduced sick pay and temporary cover: for example, a programme for Royal Mail demonstrated that for every £1 the client spent on the service, RehabWorks saved them £3.

RehabWorks has a strong blue chip client base as well as public sector clients, such as emergency services and local authority customers, which all benefit from either onsite services or access to nearby specialist clinics.

RehabWorks has recently being backed by Sovereign Capital to provide funding for growth and to further develop both their physical and mental health services and products.

The Robens Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

The Robens Centre for Occupational Health and Safety is a leading provider of Occupational Health Services in the South East and has been established in Guildford for over 26 years. We offer a wide range of fully managed services which can be tailored to meet your needs including:

• Occupational Health: absence management, drug and alcohol screening, health surveillance, health promotion and screening, on site OH advice, policy design, workplace assessments
• Travel Health Clinic: immunisation and travel advice, vaccinations
• Training and consultancy services
• Railtrack medicals

Information for potential sponsors

This event is now closed to exhibitors and sponsors. If your organisation would be interested in promoting itself through the wide variety of exhibitions, sponsorship and marketing opportunities available at this event, please visit our sponsorship mini-site here or email or call William Porter at wporter@symposium-events.co.uk or 020 7231 5100.

Venue

55 Bryanston Street

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