Pre session you will be sent a Journal in the form of a PDF document. This is to be completed whilst you attend the online training session.
This will act as a valuable record for yourself and will be very useful to take to meetings with your Line Manager. A Q and A is available post session and you may email us with any queries or advice there after.
Course Content:
- Parent guilt and The Pressure of Perfect Parenting! Who is to blame?
- Super parents, super bakers and the skinny kale brigade on Instagram! Reality?!
- Career and Family: Yes you can have it all
- A recent study by the NCT looked at Parents’ perceptions of work-life balance
- 10 reasons why you should not feel guilty in being a working parent
- Establish personal motivation for returning to work
- Preparing for a successful return to work
- Addressing concerns and anxieties – Yes you can be a working parent!
- Consider child care plans for snow and sickness days – Consider your support systems
- Return to work – pre induction/ training/ equipment, access and passwords!
- Breastfeeding arrangements
- Working parents – The King and Queens of organization, lists and spreadsheets!
- Our top tips to make life as easy as possible as a working parent
- Reconnecting with colleagues
- Top tips for the return to work phase
- Parental physical and mental health: Are you okay?
- Postnatal depression – Spotting the signs and help available
- Tips in how to cope with working parent exhaustion – Self care advice
- What is Parental Burnout? Symptoms and what you can do to help yourself
- How becoming a parent affects our confidence and what we can do about it! Our top tips to get you back in the game!
- New goals and priorities
- Support: Organisations that can help
