This four-day training workshop aims to equip participants with the skills and knowledge to either advise and support other organisations in creating healthy workplaces or implement a programme within their own organisation.
Healthy workplace programmes span across different disciplines; health promotion, health and safety, occupational health and human resources. Participants are not expected to become fully competent in all these areas but rather have an overview of what an organisation’s healthy workplace programme should look like and have the knowledge of how to implement the actions identified.
The content of the training course is primarily based around working with small businesses (10–50 employees) but can be applied to larger organisations.
Over the four days participants will:
- Gain an understanding of the concept of healthy workplaces;
- Be able to work through the process of developing a healthy workplace programme, in particular using the Work Well tools to carry out a needs assessment and develop an action plan;
- Be able to identify and address actions under the three key business areas of a healthy workplace: leadership and management, the physical environment and health and wellbeing.
Potential participants
This course will be beneficial to anyone involved in either supporting organisations or working within their own organisation to develop healthy workplace programmes or address workplace health issues.
Cost
£75
Dates of event
4, 5, 11 and 12 March 2008
NB. The afternoon of the 11 March is optional for those who have previous health and safety training or experience.
Venue
Greenmount Campus, Antrim
Materials and resources
All participants will receive the following resources:
- Information booklets containing the content of each training session;
- Access to an online employee questionnaire which can be used by you in the future to identify healthy workplace needs;
- A handbook/guide which details the process of developing a healthy workplace programme. It includes a CD-ROM with all the Work Well tools. Additional copies of the guide can be made available for use with other organisations.
Additional information
Following the successful completion of the training course, those in attendance will be asked if they would like their contact details placed on the HPA website. This is optional and will enable organisations that would like to develop healthy workplace programmes to contact those of you that could support them.
In addition, all participants will be invited to join the Work Well Practitioners Network. This network supports and motivates participants who have attended the Creating Healthy Workplace training to develop and implement the Work Well model in Northern Ireland. It acts as a forum to share learning and experiences of implementing a healthy workplace programme.
Facilitators
Julie Hill is the Training and Development Manager for Rethink, a mental health charity. She worked at the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) as the Health Promoting Workplaces Coordinator for three years, developing an initiative called Work Well that aimed to test and develop an approach to creating healthy workplaces with small businesses in Northern Ireland. The learning from the initiative has inspired some of the content of the training course.
Julie has a background in training, management and mental health. She has a Certificate in Healthy Settings: Theory, Policy and Practice; a Diploma in Management; a Certificate in Training Practice; and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. She has also completed the workplace health module of the Diploma in Occupational Health.
Sarah Reid
is the current Health Promoting Workplaces Coordinator at the HPA. Previous to this she worked in the HPA as a Health Development Officer, during which time she supported the Work Well initiative.
Sarah has a background in teaching, research and evidence-based practice in a variety of clinical and health promotion topics. She has a Certificate in Healthy Settings: Theory, Policy and Practice.
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