Mental Health in the Workplace Training CPD Seminar

Following on from the success of last year’s CPD Seminar on the subject of the Awareness of Mental Health in the workplace and recognising signs and symptoms and benefits of having mental health first aiders, we are pleased to announce that our next CPD event will be the follow on to this and will be presented by Imogen Hamblin, Associate Solicitor at Thrive Law in Leeds who works alongside Jodie Hill who presented last year’s seminar.

With one in six workers is dealing with a mental health problem whether it be anxiety, stress or depression this means that amongst the near 500 members of the Middlesbrough Insurance Institute there could be over 80 people experiencing a difficulty with their mental health.

This CPD event will be of interest to everyone working or involved in the insurance and professional financial services industry Imogen joined Thrive Law in July 2018 with a vision of the future of the legal profession and particularly relating to the type of safe environment that we all wish to work in. Thrive Law are specialists in Employment law, working with both Claimants and Respondents in order to achieve a positive outcome for both parties and have a unique interest in mental health and coaching employers to create a positive and safe environment for employees to thrive.

As a trained advocate, Imogen has extensive experience dealing with both claimant and respondent work in Employment tribunal litigation including hearing advocacy, discipline and grievance procedures and disputes, Internal HR investigations, Unfair and constructive unfair dismissal claims, Restructuring, redundancy and transfer of undertakings issues, All forms of discrimination including disability, race, sex and religion, Employment contracts, handbooks and workplace policies, Settlement agreements, Family friendly and LGBTQIA+ rights, Wages and working time issues, ACAS Early Conciliation and is a part-time tutor on the Graduate Diploma in Law at Leeds Beckett University.

The learning objectives for the event are;

1. The legal framework;

2. Dealing with mental health from an employee's perspective;

3. Dealing with mental health from an employer's perspective;

4. Best practice;

5. Promoting positive mental health