Line Manager Training: How to Support an Employee with Mental Ill Health

During this workshop, we look at how to make reasonable adjustments to support employees with mental health conditions and meet your legal duties.

Hosted by Jodie Hill, founder and Managing Partner of multi-award winning Thrive Law, this 60-minute workshop focuses on:

• When does a mental health condition amount to a disability?
• What reasonable adjustments are required if the condition amounts to a disability?
• Examples of common reasonable adjustments.
• How to ensure your adjustments are genuinely helping the employee.
• When are adjustments not reasonable?
• Case studies and previous case law which give guidance on mental health and reasonable adjustments.
• What are the potential liabilities if employers get it wrong?

Plus, the opportunity to have all your questions answered. Do you already have a question about supporting employees or making reasonable adjustments? You can send your questions to us in advance to guarantee they get put to Jodie - simply send us an email using the contact details provided when you buy a ticket.

Who is this workshop for?

• HR Managers
• Line Managers
• Occupational Health & Safety Managers
• H&S Managers
• Managing Directors
• Equality, Diversion & Inclusion Leaders
• Wellbeing Leaders and Champions

In other words, anybody who is responsible for ensuring good mental health and wellbeing within their organisation or for their team.

How this workshop benefits you

If you have an employee with mental health issues on your team, particularly if these amount to a disability, you know that you have to make "reasonable adjustments". In this workshop you find out what exactly those can be (with lots of examples!) and also what adjustments would be considered unreasonable and how to make these adjustments work specifically for your team.

How this workshop benefits your company

If an employer does not make sufficient reasonable adjustments for an employee whose ill mental health is classed as a disability, this can be considered disability discrimination. And the potential award for disability discrimination is uncapped. So, as an employer it is in your best interest that your line managers know how to support an employee with mental health issues and what reasonable adjustments to make.

Registration details

When: Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 2pm

Price: £60 + VAT

Group discounts: 10% for 5-9 employees, 20% for 10+ employees, available at checkout

Can't make it? Go ahead and sign up anyway, since we will send you the recording after the workshop. And any questions you have, you can send in advance!

For cancellation information, see: https://www.agorabusiness.co.uk/cancellation-information/

Presenter: Jodie Hill

Jodie Hill originally trained as a barrister then cross-qualified as a solicitor. In 2018 she became the founder and Managing Partner of multi-award winning Thrive Law. Jodie has specialised in employment law throughout her career and has a keen understanding of this complex legal sector, particularly D&I issues, together with all HR-related issues.

Jodie also has a passion for helping to encourage understanding around mental health and has a strong desire to help end stigma surrounding the subject, to create a happier, healthier workforce. This passion can be seen in her campaign: #OneMind, to bring mental health to the top of the business agendas, with her campaign being featured by Sky News, the BBC, The Times, The Law Society Gazette, Yorkshire Post and other key media.