How has covid-19 changed workplace wellbeing? [a Cambridge Network event, 10am]

Date	Tuesday 6 October 2020
Times	10am - 11am
Venue	Online
Email	Louise.Rushworth@cambridgenetwork.co.uk
Cost	Free for Members | £50+VAT for Non-Members

In 2017 Government report ‘Thriving at Work’, highlighted that 15% of workers have a mental health condition and 300k people with long-term mental health problems lose their jobs each year, leaving a big impact on the economy and well as the workers affected.  The long-term effects of covid-19 on the workforce will undoubtably have an effect on workplace health. Against this background, what can be done now to help employees cope in this new environment?

Our key speaker will be Prof Dame Carol Black, DBE, FRCP, FMedSci, University of Cambridge, who will set the context and stress the importance of recognising mental health in the workplace. Joining Dame Carol will be Christian Van Stolk, executive vice president at RAND Europe.

The Covid-19 crisis has forced many people to change the way they work, with a huge increase in the numbers working from home. Employers may have the opportunity to rebuild work policies to better support those employees who want to continue working from home. This could produce wellbeing benefits for employees, without compromising on, and often increasing, productivity.  We will discuss what we mean by productivity and also where some of the clear opportunities lie to support home working more effectively.

Professor Dame Carol Black is currently Chair of the British Library, the Centre for Ageing Better, and Think Ahead, the Government’s fast-stream training programme for Mental Health Social Workers.   She chairs NHS Improvement’s Advisory Board on Employee Health and Wellbeing, and is Adviser to NHSI and PHE on Health and Work.   She is also a member of RAND Europe’s Council of Advisers, and of the Board of UKActive. She recently completed her seven-year term as Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, where she was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor.   She still sits on the University’s Advisory Board for the Centre of Science and Public Policy, and the Strategy Board on Student Mental Health and Wellbeing.   She is a Patron of the Women’s Leadership Centre in the Judge Business School.

Christian Van Stolk is executive vice president at RAND Europe. He has worked extensively on health and wellbeing in the workplace. His work in the past has focused on improving the health and wellbing of staff in the National Health Service in the UK, maintaining and gaining employment for those with common mental health conditions, building and evidence base for health interventions in workplace settings and looking at the relationship between productivity and health and wellbeing outcomes. He currently manages RAND's work on the Britain's Healthiest Workplace competition with Vitality Health and Asia's Healthiest Workplace competitions with AIA.

The talk will take place at 10am - 11am on Tuesday 6th October. Please sign up to take part! Participants will be sent a link to join via Zoom prior to the start time.

To attend:

Members: Any Cambridge Network member may attend free of charge (check for full membership in our Directory). Click on Book Now, then click the login link on the next page to receive your member discount. Alternatively, please drop sara.baxter@cambridgenetwork.co.uk an email and she will book you on.

Non-members: Non-members may also attend the talk at a fee of £50+VAT. You may wish to join as a member from £50+VAT and come along to many other events for free or at member rates!

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