“Employers have a legal duty to protect workers from stress at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it. This is the same duty you have to protect people from other health and safety risks.“
Health and Safety Executive
Tailored CPD for Education Employers
When a staff member tells you they are stressed or are experiencing workplace mental health difficulties, you:
- Have a LEGAL DUTY to respond
- Must keep records of what you do and how you do it
The fact is that employer responsibilities around stress and mental health are increasing, with greater scrutiny from all sides. There have already been Employment Tribunal cases within the education sector for insufficient mental health support.
Clearly, now is the time to be proactive on this issue.
How to respond to a staff member expresses mental health difficulties
Employers need to complete a written record of how they support staff and what reasonable adjustments they put in place.
To do this they should complete an Individual Stress Risk Assessment. This is your evidence of what you have done to support your employee.
This Tool keeps you legally compliant in your response, whilst also taking you through all of the areas of support that you can give your member of staff.
Implementing this in your setting
As an employer in education, you will need to evidence that you have a structured process to identify, evaluate, and manage work-related factors causing excessive stress. What’s more, you need to demonstrate this at an organisational as well as an individual level.
That is why we are offering this tailored CPD opportunity on Completing Stress Risk Assessments.
This course will:
- Ensure you are meeting your legal responsibilities when a staff member reports workplace mental health difficulties
- Give you a structure to follow
- Make sure you know what to do
- Ensure that your organisation is compliant
- Make sure that you have a written record of how you are supporting the staff member
Specifically created for the education sector by our industry experts, we will ensure that you are confident in the steps that you must take when a member of staff identifies that they are experiencing mental health difficulties.
One Time
£97.50 + VAT
Price from 1st August £195 + VAT
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