Employer toolkits
We develop useful toolkits focusing on specific areas to help organisations manage different aspects of work and successfully support working carers.
Engaging SME businesses – A toolkit for EfC Umbrella members
If you are an EfC umbrella member, you will be looking to engage with your local SME businesses to make them aware of the help and resources available to them through this free membership model.
Employee Survey
This employee survey on workplace support for carers has been designed as a template so that, if you wish, you can amend it to better suit your organisation.
Developing a Carers’ Policy Toolkit
There are simple measures that you can take to help your staff balance work and caring effectively which can mean the difference between keeping skilled and experienced staff and losing them as they give up work to care. Having a clear and easily accessible Carers’ Policy is a good place to start.
Engaging Carers in Your Workforce Toolkit
Read our short employer toolkit with practical advice and top tips to help employers, line managers and HR staff to engage carers in their workforce.
Starting the Conversation Toolkit
It is often hard for individuals in the workplace to talk about their caring responsibilities and support needs as these can be difficult issues to raise. Managers can find it hard to initiate or respond to a conversation about caring too.
Managing Bereavement Toolkit
Read our short employer toolkit with practical advice, top tips and good practice examples to help employers, line managers and HR staff support carers through a bereavement.
Starting and Sustaining a Carers’ Network Toolkit
It is often hard to identify and engage carers in your workforce as people don’t see themselves as carers; they are daughters, husbands, partners doing what families do – looking after the people they love. A carers’ network is often a good way of doing this, be it virtual or face to face.
Dementia Toolkit
Following our dementia surveys and our subsequent report Supporting employees who are caring for someone with dementia, we have produced a short dementia toolkit to help employers support their staff who are juggling work with caring for someone with dementia.
Having the Care Conversation
Speaking to your family or friends about their care can be difficult and many of us avoid having a conversation about care. This toolkit provides advice and support for anyone who may need to have the care conversation.
Workplace Contingency Management Toolkits
We have developed two toolkits centred around building caring into workplace contingency plans.
Managing Change Toolkits
We have created two toolkits for employers and employees centred around managing change.
Carer Passport toolkit
We have developed a Carer Passport toolkit to help your organisation introduce a Passport, learn about potential challenges and solutions around implementation and understand how to promote your Passport scheme.
Carer Champion toolkit
We have developed a Carer Champion toolkit based on the insights of our EfC research report 2022 about the role of carer champions in the workplace.
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