Health @ Work Summit 2012

Programme – Day 1 – Wednesday 20th June

9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee

9:30 – 9:45 Introduction and Opening Address by Conference Chair

09:45 – 10:15 The Impact of the Current Economic Climate on Employee Health and Wellbeing

• Wellbeing in the current economic climate – evidence and cost of poor performance
• Dealing with burnout
• Impact on stress
• Offering support to employees for debt crisis and money worries

Patrick Watt, Head of Health & Wellness (EMEA & India), Goldman Sachs International

10:15 – 10:45 The Results of the 2011 Absence Review

• The future of Fit notes
• Implications of the black review
• Changes to absence management

Chris Moore, Head of Key Account, Simplyhealth and Dr Jill Miller, Research Adviser, CIPD

10:45 – 11:15 Knowledge Share Networking Session

11:15 – 11:40 Coffee & Networking

12:50 – 13:40 Lunch and Networking

13:40 – 14:10 Panel Discussion

Ensuring you are Getting the Most from your Occupational Health Provider and EAP

• How to find a Quality Occupational Health Provider
• Ensuring you have the best deal and knowing what to expect

14:10 – 14:40 Supporting People with Workplace Mental Health Issues

• Examining the economic case for treating mental health
• Dealing with presenteeism
• Continuing to support people to be in the workplace
• Raising mental health awareness and promoting mental wellbeing

Sean Duggan, Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health

14:40 – 15:10 Working at a Strategic Level to Tackle Stress and Build Resilience

• Working at the strategic level to change the culture
• Managing the obstacles
• Developing a mental health plan
• Interventions to promote resilience and minimise stress
• Supporting staff during the run up to the Olympics

Alison Dunn, Head of Treatment Services, Occupational Health, Transport for London

15:10 – 15:20 Questions and Discussion with speakers

15:20 -15:40 Coffee and Networking

15:40 – 16:10 Title TBC

Senior Representative, Department of Health

16:10 – 16:40 Legal Session: Making Reasonable Adjustments

• Understanding what is reasonable?
• Impact of the Equality Act

Martin Brewer, Partner, Mills & Reeve LLP

16:40– 16:50 Questions and Discussion with Speakers

16:50 Close of Day One

Programme – Day 2 – Thursday 21st June

9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee

9:30 – 9:45 Introduction and Opening Address by Conference Chair

09:45 – 10:15 Understanding Sick Presence and the Impact on Business

• How to spot and minimise presenteeism
• Measuring the impact of presenteeism on productivity

Stephen Bevan, Director, Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, The Work Foundation

10:15 – 10:45 Title TBC

Senior Representative, Nuffield Health

10:45 – 11:15 Knowledge Share Networking Session

11:15 – 11:35 Coffee & Networking

11:35 – 12:00 Title TBC

Dan Estrada, Executive Consultant, Jobs in Mind

12:00 – 12:25 Managing an Ageing Workforce

• How we identify underlying health issues in the work place
• Identify individuals at risk of poor health or disability and intervention measures to reduce those risks
• Keeping physically and mentally agile
• Engaging our people
• It’s not new it just needs more focus!

Kenny Halbert, Head of Occupational Health, Scottish Power

12:25 – 12:35 Questions and Discussion with speakers

12:35 – 13:25 Lunch and Networking

13:25 – 14:00 Employment Law Question and Answer session

• Sickness absence
• Holiday pay
• Dismissals

Martin Brewer, Partner, Mills & Reeve LLP

15:00 -15:20 Coffee and Networking

15:20 – 15:50 Improving Employee Engagement Through Wellbeing

• Empowering engagement at work

Jim Dalton, Group Head of Employee Engagement, FirstGroup plc

15:50 – 16:20 Linking Health Promotion to Engagement

• Delivering health incentives to improve engagement and performance
• Offering low cost health and wellbeing solutions
• Building motivation and commitment to the workplace

Lloydeth Newell, Health and Safety Manager, Corporate Development, Inmarsat

16:20– 16:30 Questions and Discussion with Speakers

16:30 Close of Conference

Speakers

Richard Thorne, Group HR Manager, Admiral Group

Awaiting biography.

Steve Wilson, Health and Wellbeing Manager Airbus

Steve Wilson has worked for Airbus for over 30 years in a variety of roles including manufacturing operations, engineering, facilities, recruitment and training and more recently as the UK health and well-being manager providing Occupational Health to over 10,000 employees in the UK.

In this role he was responsible for implementing significant changes to occupational health and absence management which has resulted in the introduction of improved health support for employees and reduced absence. This is now being rolled out across all Airbus plants in France, Spain and Germany.

Val Carter, CR and Training Director, ARAMARK UK

Awaiting biography.

Andrew Kinder, Advisor & Chartered Psychologist, BACP Workplace

Andrew is a Chartered Counselling & Chartered Occupational Psychologist, is the Past Chair of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Workplace Division (www.bacpworkplace.org.uk) and was recently awarded with a Fellowship from BACP for his contribution to workplace counselling. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, has a MSc in Occupational Psychology, holds three diplomas in counselling and one certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapies. He works as a counsellor, mediator and coach.
He has worked in the area of stress, trauma and employee assistance within organisations for over 14 years as a counsellor, mediator and coach. He has contributed to the various government consultations on stress (e.g. HSE) and was a member of the steering group which produced the Mind Out for mental health “line managers’ resource: A practical guide to managing and supporting mental health in the workplace”.
He has published widely and is particularly interested in the management of stress and trauma within an occupational health context. Andrew is currently responsible for a large employee assistance programme which delivers training, counselling and coaching products to increase the psychological health of individuals and organizations (www.atoshealthcare.com). He has been instrumental in the introduction of early intervention programmes in a number of large organisations relating to employee engagement and employee wellbeing. He has been active as a researcher and collaborated with the Institute of Employment Studies, University of Sheffield and the British Occupational Health Research Foundation into the evidence for organisational interventions used following a work related trauma (this report is available from www.bohrf.org.uk).
His latest book is called ‘Employee Wellbeing Support; A workplace Resource’ which he has co-edited with Professor Cary Cooper and Rick Hughes and was published by John Wiley & Sons in March 2008. He has also co-written with Rick Hughes ‘Guidelines for counselling in the workplace’ which is published by BACP and available free via www.bacpworkplace.co.uk

Helen Knight, National Wellbeing Manager, British Gas

Helen Knight joined British Gas in May 2011 as their National Wellbeing Manager. Helen previously worked for Service Provider Amey, where she introduced a high energy Wellbeing Programme, before that Helen worked as a Wellbeing Consultant for the Validium Group.

Sean Duggan, Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health

Sean Duggan is Chief Executive at Centre for Mental Health. He joined the Centre as director of our Criminal Justice Programme in 2006, and was Joint Chief Executive, alongside Dr Bob Grove, from 2009 until June 2011.
Immediately before joining the Centre, Sean was Director of Health and Social Care for Criminal Justice at the London Development Centre and offender health consultant for the Department of Health. He trained as a registered mental health nurse in Sussex and his first NHS Board Director’s post was also in West Sussex.
Sean was Vice Chair of the National Advisory Group to the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board, which was set up following the Bradley report in 2009 until its conclusion in 2011.
Sean is passionate about raising standards of care and treatment of mental health services for offenders in the community and in prison, while also influencing politicians, policy makers and heads of public sector organizations and other key stakeholders.

Dr Jill Miller, Research Adviser, CIPD

Jill Miller joined the CIPD in 2008 and is currently leading on one of CIPD’s major research projects, Shaping the Future. Shaping the Future is a three year research and engagement programme, working with case study organisations and engaging practitioners in debate on sustainable organisation performance. It aims to advance both thinking and practice, providing practical guides and tools for practitioners. Jill’s current research focuses on corporate responsibility and HR’s role in effectively integrating sustainability principles into ‘the way we do business’.

Jill is also responsible for the CIPD’s annual Absence Management survey, produced in partnership with Simplyhealth. The survey provides useful benchmarking data for organisations on the cost and causes of absence, as well as focusing on employee well-being and topical issues.

Jill is a psychology graduate with a postgraduate masters and PhD in Management. Her research has focused on line manager capability and the effect of informal relationships at work on performance. Previously, Jill was lecturing at Reading University on International Human Resource Management with a particular focus on cross-cultural working and the evolution of the HR function within multi nationals.

Senior Representative, Department of Health

Awaiting biography.

Jim Dalton, Group Head of Employee Engagement, FirstGroup plc

Jim Dalton joined FirstGroup plc, the world’s largest surface passenger transport company, in December 2004 from the Kingfisher Group where he worked for 15 years in retail operations and Human Resources.

Jim heads the Occupational Health function delivering services to 35,000 staff in the UK, across all Bus and Rail operations. He is also responsible for delivering the Global Staff Survey to 135,000 employees and the Engagement strategy for the Group.

With employee engagement at the heart of First’s HR strategy Jim is leading a cultural change program where employee wellbeing and health is paramount to delivering excellent services and creating a great place to work. The direct link of employee engagement to business success is at the core of this strategy.

Patrick Watt, Head of Health & Wellness (EMEA & India), Goldman Sachs International

Patrick Watt is an Executive Director with Goldman Sachs International and is Head of Health & Wellness for EMEA and India.
‪The main focus of Patrick’s role is on managing the health and wellbeing of Goldman Sachs’ people through the delivery of onsite facilities, case management services and programmes under the umbrella of ‘GS Wellness Exchange’. The ‘GS Wellness Exchange’ has been recognised by a number of professional bodies including the Institute for Health and Productivity Management and Wellness Councils of America. The firm’s Wellness programme was also highlighted by both Fortune magazine and the Financial Times in their ‘top 100 companies’ listings.
‪In addition, Patrick has responsibility for the firm’s health and disability plans across the EMEA region. He is also a trustee of the UK Health Trust.
‪Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2007 Patrick spent 10 years working for Mercer’s UK Healthcare Practice, advising companies on the design and management of their health and disability programmes. He held a number of roles when at Mercer including head of the healthcare practice for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and then for the South of England, and finally Head of Healthcare Sales, including responsibility for Mercer’s Occupational Health and Flex Consulting businesses.
‪Patrick graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1997 with a BSc Honours degree in Sports Medicine. ‪He is a keen sportsman and although retired from rugby, still plays golf and regularly takes part in triathlon and adventure races.

Lloydeth Newell, Health and Safety Manager, Corporate Development, Inmarsat

Lloydeth Newell is the Health and Safety Manager at Inmarsat Ltd, the world’s leading provider of global satellite communications – this truly is rocket science! While based in London for her work, Inmarsat has worldwide operations and is a diverse, multi-cultural environment.
Lloydeth held various roles within Inmarsat and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH); she has also achieved a BSc Honours degree in occupational safety, health and environment.

She has developed management systems, a positive safety culture, bespoke professional courses and has transformed the management of health and safety within the business, she is also an approved IOSH trainer. Over the years changes have flowed through into people’s behaviour and health and safety is now seen much more as part of people’s working lives, not just a chore to comply with. This attitude has now started to develop within the company’s overseas operations, most notably in Italy, Indonesia and Hawaii.

Dan Estrada, Executive Consultant/Trainer, Jobs in Mind

Daniel Estrada has over 5 years experience in training delivery and training package development and a background in teaching. He has also contributed to the development of the Jobs in Mind training packages in conjunction with Roger Butterworth, a leading figure and expert in job retention. As an executive consultant; Daniel is in charge of Jobs in Mind training and consultancy. He also manages all complex job retention cases at Jobs in Mind. He has a proven track record in Job retention. In 2010 alone he enabled 52 individuals to return to work from long term sickness absence and/or prevented them from losing their jobs as a result of issues with their mental health. Daniel has supported a variety of businesses through job retention including: several London NHS trusts, local councils, Bose ltd, The Japanese Embassy, Ipsos Mori, Marks & Spencers and Nomura investment bank to name a few. In regards to training and consultancy Daniel has recently played a major part in securing a contract to help St Geroge’s Hospital set up a more robust employee well-being strategy for the Trust. Part of this process will consist of training all Line Managers within the Trust with the aid of our unique emotional resilience course

Martin Brewer, Partner, Mills & Reeve LLP

Martin is a partner in the employment team and has been an employment specialist for 20 years. Martin advises employers on all aspects of employment law and practice, is a regular advocate in employment tribunals and has appeared in the EAT.

Martin advises clients across sectors including large commercial clients, NHS Trusts and local authorities.

As well as the litigation side of the practice other examples of Martin’s recent workload include advice on removing directors and senior employees, varying contracts for entire workforces, advising on strategy for large scale redundancies, advising on large scale relocations, advice on working time and annual leave, on the new Agency Workers Regulations and advice on complex TUPE transfers. Recent work includes drafting and amending various employment policies, ranging from sickness absence policies to surveillance policies, advising on collective redundancies and dealing with disciplinaries, grievances and capability issues.

Martin is a regular speaker on all aspects of employment law and practice and also writes on the subject for HR Zone (an on-line publication) and Workplace Law. Martin has co-authored books on redundancy, working time, discrimination law and TUPE and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Senior Representative, Nuffield Health

Awaiting biography.

Sue Kennard, Health and Well Being Manager, Occupational Health, Queens Hospital

Awaiting biography.

Claire Forty, Occupational Health Nurse Manager, Occupational Health & Wellbeing, RWEnpower

Claire has worked for RWEnpower for the past 14 years having previously qualified in OH while working for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Prior to this Claire’s NHS career was mainly in orthopaedics and community. She enjoys the challenge that working for an integrated energy company brings as no two days are ever the same!

Kenny Halbert, Head of Occupational Health, Scottish Power

Kenny Halbert has worked at ScottishPower for most of his career. During the last six years he has worked within the Health and Safety function as Head of Occupational Health Services. More recently he has taken on responsibility for Health and Safety shared services within the organisation. In the early part of his career he worked in engineering disciplines before embarking on a career in Human Resources in 1990 where he held a number of senior positions in HR Management and Learning and Development.

Kenny has significant experience in business management and the delivery of service based products within the organisation. Within his current role he has responsibility for the delivery of the business wellbeing plans, a key element of the businesses health and safety strategy.

Lucy Drake, Assistant Director, Human Resources & Organisational Development, Sheffield Homes

Lucy joined Sheffield Homes in 2007, to lead and transform the HR & OD function. Supporting a workforce of just over 1,000 staff, who serve the tenants and residents of 42,000 properties across the city, Lucy and her team have developed and implemented an ambitious organisational development strategy. Working in partnership with three trade unions, this has included a new pay & grading structure, introduction of behavioural competencies, significant organisational change and staff reductions, and a wide ranging programme for supporting health & wellbeing, that has delivered a reduction in sickness absence by half.

Having previously worked in the voluntary sector and NHS, Lucy remains committed to encouraging an organisational culture that emphasises the importance of the rights and responsibilities of colleagues, and is resilient and receptive to coping with continuous change and improvement. Lucy’s areas of specialism include diversity, change management, and creation of the desired culture.

Sheffield Homes has been awarded 3 stars by the Audit Commission three times, with excellent prospects for improvement.

Chris Moore, Head of Key Account, Simplyhealth

Chris joined Medisure, now Simplyhealth, in 1998 and has extensive experience in the private medical, travel insurance and medical assistance markets. He heads up Simplyhealth’s Major Accounts Team and leads our service delivery for a number of our major corporate accounts, including Astra Zeneca, General Healthcare, Honda, Marsh, Reed Elsevier and Spire Healthcare.
Chris is a keen sailor, and regularly skippers yachts on a commercial basis on the South Coast, as well as instructing in dinghies more locally to Bristol.

Alison Dunn, Head of Treatment Services, Occupational Health, Transport for London

Alison Dunn is Head of Treatment Services, in the Occupational Health Department at Transport for London, which provides a range of services for London Underground and the Transport for London group. Alison leads on mental health issues within the organisation and she is also responsible for the Counselling & Trauma Service, the Physiotherapy service, and the Drug and Alcohol Assessment & Treatment Service. Alison’s background is in Social Work and then Counselling – she was awarded a Masters Degree in Psychological Counselling & Psychotherapy in 2000.
Having worked as a Trauma Specialist, Senior Counsellor, and Head of Counselling and Trauma Service before taking on her current role, Alison has thorough experience of providing counselling in an organisational setting and managing a proactive workplace counselling service. Alison and her team have been focussing on the issue of stress for a number of years, and a comprehensive mental health plan is put together and delivered each year.

Stephen Bevan, Director, Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, The Work Foundation

Awaiting biography.

Sponsors

Jobs in Mind

Our Work Solutions social enterprise at Jobs in Mind aims to support organisations and business across the UK. We work to promote healthier work environments and through our services help to enhance your place of work.

Our training isn’t just training; it’s a commitment to your success and the wellbeing of your employees. Our unique approach has been tested and proven to work effectively. This has been the result of our previous interactions with a wide range of organisations and 25 years experience of working in mental health.

Through developing key skills in your HR department and amongst your line managers; we are able to help you proactively tackle issues linked to ‘presenteeism’ and ‘absenteeism’ which is estimated to cost the UK economy around £25 billion per year.

With our support, you will be able to measure and record the actual financial and social benefits of your investment in improving the mental health environment of your organization. The success of working in partnership will be reflected in an increase of productivity, decreased sickness absence, reduced recruitment costs and retention of both staff and talent.

Our approach to training offers innovation through simplicity, practicality and expertise. We offer a holistic approach to dealing with ill mental health at work by merging our consultancy experience with our bespoke training packages.

simplyhealth

In a world where so many people can’t be bothered, we’re proud to be the healthcare company that can.

We believe in helping people access affordable healthcare and delivering exceptional personal customer service. We help two million individuals look after their health, and 11,000 companies choose us as their healthcare provider.

You may have known us as HSA, BCWA, HealthSure, LHF, Totally Active, Remedi or Medisure. Our name has changed, but what’s not altered is our award winning commitment to do the right thing by our customers.

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.

Workplace Healthcare

Workplace healthcare & wellbeing has certainly moved forward in the last ten years, quite possibly the word ‘wellbeing’ would not have even been used, but is now regularly applied in the corporate world when referring to the physical & mental state of your workforce.
Keeping your staff healthy typically involved occupational health, physio and compliance with health & safety, perhaps with some health perks within your employee benefit packages. These remain important elements, however…

There is a bigger picture.

Increasingly companies are realizing that the ongoing wellbeing of their people is paramount.
Historically treatment has been reactive, this has now been allied with a proactive approach, the philosophy ‘prevention is better than cure’ has been adopted by organisations that want to keep their people fit, active and productive.

Information for potential 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

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