Anti-bullying & harassment training

The course is designed to help workers in our industry understand how to address bad behaviour, bullying and harassment. 

For those with managerial positions, the course will take you through a step-by-step guide on how to deal with this appropriately and sensitively. For those who have experienced or witnessed behaviour like this, it will help you identify what you can do, and where you can turn, so that all of us, regardless of our seniority, are empowered to work respectfully and safely and have the resources and confidence to call out bad behaviour. 

Who it's for

This session is for anyone contracted or freelancing in a managerial position in HETV and unscripted TV.

You may also be interested in completing our Tackling harassment and bullying at work e-learning module.

If you work in Unscripted TV and are interested in other training addressing workplace best practice as well as how to stay healthy, happy and productive at work, check out the ‘Your life at work’ strand.

The majority of the USF online short course offering is for those at early career stage and above. As a result, we generally require applicants to have at least 3 credits (unless working in a traditionally uncredited role). If you strongly feel you would still benefit from the training, please email USF@screenskills.com so we can assess if an exception should be made.

Speaker

Addie Orfila is the former head of production at award-winning serial drama Hollyoaks, Addie Orfila has over 20 years experience within TV and short film production.

Starting as a trainee continuity announcer and then runner at Yorkshire Television, Addie has worked her way up as third assistant director, first assistant director, production manager and head of production.  She has worked on three out of the four big UK serial dramas and was production manager at Coronation Street for a very successful tenure. 

Having worked on shows such as Heartbeat, Touch of Frost, Countdown, My Parent’s are Aliens, Emmerdale, Barking and Jinx, Addie has a large wealth of experience to draw from and is currently a member of Channel 4’s Mentoring Diversity Network as well as trainer on the pan-industry Project Diamond diversity monitoring scheme.

How to apply

This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘apply for ticket’ and follow the instructions to apply for your place: you must login or register before you are able to complete your application.

If you are no longer able to attend, we ask you to please use the “decline ticket” function on the right hand side of the page so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.

This session is supported by the ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund which invests in training for the unscripted workforce thanks to contributions from broadcasters, SVoDs and production companies.

This course would normally cost participants to attend, but thanks to this support, we are able to offer it to you for free. If you fail to attend, we reserve the right to request reimbursement of costs, unless your place can be taken by someone else.