37. STUDY DAY - Management for Managers Part 1- 6th February 2025 - LONDON

This study day is designed for HR managers, company executives, case managers aspiring to establish their own business, independent case managers, and anyone interested in learning more about employment rights.

Morning Session - 09:30-12:30

• Company Structure: Compare employing Case Managers directly versus using associates and find the best approach for your business.
• Business Protection: Learn key strategies to protect your business, whether you employ staff or work with associates.
• Employment Law & IR35 Compliance: Understand your obligations under employment law and IR35, and discover best practices.
• CQC Regulations: How does CQC affect the work that you can do when your client directly employs a care team?
• Employment Options: Evaluate the pros and cons of directly employed teams versus agency staff.
• Managing Teams: Get practical advice on overcoming challenges in managing directly employed teams.

The morning session will end with a Q&A session to address your specific questions.

Afternoon Session - 13:30-16:30

Cultivating a Culture of Wellbeing

Amassing research and data demonstrate that a healthy and happy workforce is critical to business success. This affects everything from increased productivity and enhanced performance to reduced absenteeism, higher retention rates, better customer satisfaction, and greater profitability. Understanding employer responsibilities and effective implementation strategies for mental health, employee wellbeing, and neurodiversity can be challenging. Join Teresa Clark, founder of The Wellness Revolution, for an engaging and interactive session designed to:

• Build managers' confidence
• Increase levels of awareness
• Develop new skills to support team members and enhance personal wellbeing

Workshop Highlights:

• Understanding Employer’s Duty of Care:
  • Legal responsibilities related to mental health, neurodiversity, and wellbeing at work.
• Awareness of Mental Health Conditions:
  • Signs, symptoms, underlying causes, and strategies to reduce stigma.
• Managing Stress and Burnout:
  • Identifying warning signs and cultivating stress management best practices.
• Cultivating Psychological Safety:
  • Identifying psychosocial risks and promoting wellbeing at work.
• Creating a Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy:
  • Steps to create and implement a successful strategy for long-term success.
• Navigating Difficult Conversations:
  • Effective communication and tailored support for employees.
• Supporting Neurodivergent Colleagues:
  • Understanding and leveraging unique skill sets and talents.
• Building a Personal Wellbeing Toolkit:
  • Strategies for resilience, stress management, and healthy habits.
• Enhancing Team Cohesion:
  • Tools and techniques to cultivate inclusion and bring out the best in your people. 

Delegates will also receive a wellbeing at work booklet with everything that you will need to cultivate an inclusive wellbeing culture, from policy templates to strategy guidelines, how to guides, industry best practice, resources and wellbeing toolkits.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Headline Sponsor: £1500

The package includes:

• Opportunity to chair the event

• 10 minute speaking opportunity

• Exhibition stand with 2 delegate passes

• Option to provide personalised pads, pens, and merchandise with your company branding

• Company logo on all advertising material and a link to your website in digital marketing

Exhibition Stands: £500 

Please email Hayley Williamson at hayley.williamson@cmsuk.org

Meet the presenters

Lynda Goncalves is the Managing Director & Principal HR Manager of Sussex HR Limited and HR 4 Case Management Limited. Working within both the public and private sectors has given Lynda a comprehensive understanding of HR practices and issues. Since commencing her HR company in 2009 her company has provided HR, Recruitment and Payroll support within the care sector and most notably within the Case Management Sector since 2010.

HR 4 Case Management was developed through Lynda’s passion of supporting families within the litigation process, and her view through working within the sector since 2010 that clients need HR, Recruitment and Payroll professionals that understand the litigation, case management, and CQC requirements as well as empathising and understanding the pressures of having a care team in the family home.

Teresa Clark is the founder and alchemist of The Wellness Revolution. A pioneering culture and employee wellbeing company that supports organisations to cultivate cultures of wellbeing that unleash human potential. 

Her wealth of expertise spans over 15+ years of experience working in mental health for the criminal justice system, NHS, charity sector and the corporate world. In 2021 she was named as one of Inside Out Leaderboard’s most influential role models in mental health in business, for her work to drive awareness and break down mental health stigma at work. She’s worked with everyone from ex-offenders and the most disadvantaged and severely mentally ill members of society to senior leaders and CEOs. Championing the power of positive thinking and self-belief, Teresa empowers people to live authentically, grow beyond challenges and perceived limitations and thrive. 

Teresa's personal story and The Wellness Revolution's work have been featured on BBC Breakfast Show, BBC 5 Live, BBC Life Changing, Raconteur and The Telegraph.

If you have any questions or queries please email us info@cmsuk.org or call 01329 446959.

Delegate passes are non-transferrable and non-refundable.