Health & Wellbeing at Work

Speaker 1:
Katy Allen – Associate Director, Blue Marble Research
How do young people feel about work? Blue Marble conducted a self-funded piece of research to explore how Young People feel about work and jobs exploring:
- What matters to them at work?
- How positive or otherwise are they about work?
- What’s going well / less well? How optimistic are they about work in future?
- How different are they to older groups, really?
One of the findings that came out really strongly was the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing at work to 18-24s (and actually, all age groups) when it comes to their working lives. We heard about why these are important to young people, how they achieve work-life balance and wellbeing (e.g. flexible working and boundaries as key tools), how well employers are seen to be doing on this and expectations for the future.

Speaker 2:
Emma-Louise Fusari - Founder / Clinical Director, In-House Health                                          
Emma-Louise Fusari is the Founder of In-House Health. A Nurse for 23 years, Emma has acquired a vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the health sector, mainly through delivering public health promotion and screening programmes and running chronic disease management initiatives. Emma founded In-House Health to enable organisations to make a measurable impact on their people, performance and profits. Through implementing clinically led, evidence-based and data-informed solutions, In-House Health gets to the root cause of work-related ill health issues and provides actionable strategies and tangible results so that organisations can sustain a high-performance culture for innovation and growth. Emma is a TalkTalk Northwest Women in Tech Award Winner (Tech for Good) and was recently named Innovator of the Year at Computing’s Women in Tech Excellence Awards for her pioneering HealthTech work.
Emma is going to talk to us about how employers can use a data-informed approach to protect women’s health in the workplace. In this 20 min talk you'll hear about the disparities in health outcomes for women and learn some of the unique signs of life threateninging conditions women experience. You'll leave with some ideas you can implement in your organisation to better protect women's health.

Speaker 3:
David Walmsley – Insight Manager, Holland & Barrett
The Manbassadors are a group of 8 men who work within H&B.  Our aim is to raise awareness of the 5 biggest killers of working age men (Heart Disease, Bowel, Lung & Prostate Cancer & Suicide) and to normalise help seeking behaviour by providing a listening and signposting service.
This is an extension to our Mental Health First Aider service, but tailored specifically to men’s health as we know, men are generally less likely to seek support due to stigma, it’s all about potentially saving lives and improving the well-being of our male colleagues.

Sub Topics: 
- Quick overview of all the networks H&B offer including the Manbassadors
- Explaining the top 5 preventable killers and why they are important
- Breaking down stigma - highlight some key ones like ignoring symptoms and avoiding the GPs 
- What we offer 121 service for men to have chats