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We Hear You are delighted to announce a new service offering to the local community, ‘WHYinwork’.
We Hear You celebrates its 30th year supporting those impacted by cancer and life-threatening conditions in the communities they serve and feel the time has come to offer their specialism out to a new audience.
WHYinwork has been created to help support employers in managing the impact of cancer and life-threatening conditions within their workforce.
Every year in the UK more than 120,000 people of working-age receive a cancer diagnosis. With this figure rising, every organization should be prepared, for the good of their employees and their business.
WHY can help by offering seminars to support businesses in being prepared to support their employees. These seminars are particularly for managers and HR professionals. We Hear You can also provide bespoke in-house training for managers, along with offering specialist counseling and therapeutic support for employees.
WHYinwork offers expert support to help you and your managers meet the challenges of an employee’s life-threatening diagnosis. Our WHYinwork service includes:
One in three people diagnosed with cancer is of working age. For many, work is a hugely important aspect of normal life. Providing compassionate, effective support to employees isn’t just ‘the right thing to do’. It ensures retention of talent and experience and is a vital ingredient in a positive, high-functioning workplace. Whether your employee is the patient or affected by the diagnosis of a loved one, there is an inevitable impact on working life. This impact may extend to the entire workplace or team.
"I had no keeping in touch days, I had no return to work interview. It’s a large company – there was nothing from occupational health, I hadn’t had an annual review. There were lots of things where they were very supportive, for instance when I was going through chemo I had a lot more time off than I was actually entitled to. So some aspects they were really supportive, but the return to work failed."
There are many legal obligations to consider when your staff member is affected by a life-threatening condition. However, businesses don’t exist in a vacuum – they are also elements of wider society. Your workplace truly thrives when it balances business and profitability with ethical considerations; investing in people and taking a holistic approach to difficulties. Our WHYinwork package can help you focus your efforts, your policies, and your practice, for the best possible outcome for you and your employee.
By accessing WHYinwork services, your corporate social responsibility meets a further need: helping WHY cover the cost of supporting the wider community.
You can book your place on our Eventbrite page below:
WHYinwork Seminar Wednesday 25th September 2024, 1:30pm-4:30pm at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome
WHYinwork Seminar Wednesday 27th November 2024, 1:30pm-4:30pm Online
WHYinwork Seminar Wednesday 22nd January 2025, 1:30pm-4:30pm Bath venue TBC
WHYinwork Wednesday 26th March 2025, 1:30pm-4:30 Online
Price: Seminars are £135 to attend. Bespoke training pricing available on request.
We know the difference that counselling makes when people are impacted by cancer and life-threatening conditions – it’s our core activity and it can be life-changing, even in the hardest circumstances*. Our counsellors can come to you – we can provide a counselling service at your workplace, remotely, or at a convenient location, to support your team when someone has been impacted by a life-threatening diagnosis.
We recommend an initial block of six sessions, with the flexibility to add further sessions as required.
Price: From £570 per block of six sessions. Further sessions are priced from £95 per session.
"After my son was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour, I wondered how life could ever be bearable again. The WHY counselling has not only helped me to come to terms with our situation, but even to find meaning and happiness in life again."
Enquire about WHYinwork counselling
Our WHYinwork Seminars are facilitated by Counsellor Barbara Gonzalez, WHY’s CEO Lucy Kitchener, and Business and Services Development Manager and past service user Claire Walker. We Hear You provides counselling and emotional support for patients, families, friends, and carers who have been affected or bereaved by cancer or any other life-threatening condition across Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, and Wiltshire. All profits made from WHYinwork will be reinvested back into our charity.
Benefit from our experience and attend one of our remote or in-person seminars for employers, managers, and HR professionals. These sessions contribute to your obligations under the Equality Act 2010, best practice, and reasonable adjustments, along with insights we’ve gained from decades of working with people affected by cancer and life-threatening conditions.
We can also support you by offering bespoke sessions tailored to your organisation, covering the creation of a robust set of policies to inform your practice when your employee is affected by a life-threatening diagnosis, and supporting you to review and implement changes.
Our six-week WHYoutdoors courses run several times a year. These courses run for one day a week for six weeks and support a small group of people living with and beyond cancer to forge a closer connection to nature and boost wellbeing. Participants take part in a mixture of gentle solo and guided activities, led by two specialist facilitators.
You can book a WHYoutdoors place for an employee living with and beyond cancer as part of your support for them.
This course could be run for a single organisation provided that a minimum of six places are filled. The maximum number of participants per course is 10.
"As the weeks of the course continued I felt that I gained room to reflect and let some light back in. My life has been enriched by the whole experience and four years on I tap into what I learned daily."
We can also create a bespoke team away day using the WHYoutdoors model. Please contact us to discuss a bespoke team day.
Price: £720 per place for WHYoutdoors.
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