The IP industry sees worryingly high levels of mental health problems, including among students and support staff.
This impacts on productivity, leading to more mistakes being made.
In turn, we see a large number of people currently considering stepping away from the profession altogether.
We will work to understand how we can approach workplace stress, understanding that this is a widespread workplace hazard and – like all hazards – it must be removed or managed.
We will explore whose responsibility this is, and consider what changing the culture around workplace stress might look like.
Of course, you will also leave with some tips and strategies for how you can deal with stress at a personal level as a first line of defence.
Learning outcomes
- Understanding the findings in the IP Inclusive/Jonathan’s Voice wellbeing at work survey
- What does realistic expectation of change look like in this context?
- How can we manage and remove the workplace hazard presented by stress?
Meet your speaker
Penny Aspinall
Penny has extensive experience across the public and charity sectors.
Starting as a counsellor and trainer with Relate in 1992, she has since moved on to counselling posts with the University of Huddersfield and the University of Leeds, where she developed and managed an extensive group work and psychoeducational training programme for students, as well as delivering staff training on mental health awareness.
More recently, Penny was Head of Disability, Counselling and Mental Health at the University of Bradford.
She has been working freelance with Charlie Waller as a consultant trainer for the Workplace programme and a trainer on the Universities and Colleges programme since August 2018.
