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Leading from the front: putting the people back into people management
- Author:
- LOCKETT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 6(3), September 2010, pp.48-52.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, are common in the working population. This article suggests that every organisation should have a comprehensive strategy that promotes mental health, provides effective return to work support and proactively responds to mental ill health in the workplace at an early stage. The article describes the scale of the issue and draws on leadership research to explore how this could be used in the workplace to build a culture able to respond to and manage mental health effectively at work. It outlines how the Centre for Mental Health has addressed some of these issues by working with the Australian charity, beyondblue: the national depression initiative. The Centre has made beyondblue's highly successful National Workplace Programme available in the UK in order to build management competencies so that managers have the skills and knowledge to act.
Looking for successful leadership to successfully implement evidence-based supported employment in mental health services - what has leadership theory got to offer?
- Author:
- LOCKETT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5(2), July 2009, pp.14-18.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
There is an established international evidence base on supported employment for people with severe and enduring mental health problems, and now a growing evidence base on how to successfully implement this into practice. The process involves substantial organisational development and change, and therefore effective leadership is critical. This article outlines some of the challenges to implementing supported employment services and explores what recent leadership theory could contribute to this process, as the Sainsbury Centre embarks on its Centres of Excellence Programme in England and seeks to build a wider learning community from our partnerships formed through the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL).
Predictive validity of evidence-based practices in supported employment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 21(4), 2016, pp.261-281.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the predictive validity of two measures of fidelity to the individual placement and support (IPS) approach to supported employment. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of IPS programs. In total, 30 studies provided information characterizing 69 cohorts and 8,392 participants. Predictive validity was assessed by a precision and negative prediction analysis and by multivariate analysis of deviance. Findings: Fidelity scores on the IPS-15 scale of 60 or less accurately predicted poor outcomes, defined as 43 percent or less of participants commencing employment, in 100 percent of cohorts. Among cohorts with IPS-15 fidelity scores of 61-75, 63 percent attained good employment outcomes defined as 44 percent or more commencing employment. A similar pattern emerged from the precision analysis of the smaller sample of IPS-25 cohorts. Multivariate analysis of deviance for studies using the IPS-15 scale examined six cohort characteristics. Following adjustment for fidelity score, only fidelity score and author group representing an aspect of cohort heterogeneity, remained associated with commencing employment. Research limitations/implications: This study provides evidence of moderate, yet important, predictive validity of the IPS-15 scale across diverse international and research contexts. The smaller sample of IPS-25 studies limited the analysis that could be conducted. Practical implications: Program implementation leaders are encouraged to first focus on attaining good fidelity, then supplement fidelity monitoring with tracking the percentage of new clients who obtain a competitive job employment over a pre-defined period of time. (Edited publisher abstract)
Employment support and addiction: what works
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper looks at the types of support that can help people with drug or alcoholic addiction to improve their employment prospects and their chances of recovery. It looks at the success of using the Individual Placement Support (IPS) approach to helping people with mental health problems to gain and retain employment and how this approach can be applied to addiction teams. It looks at assessing how well IPS can be applied to addiction services using the example of services run by the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. It found that an Individual Placement and Support services run by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust successfully placed 84 of its clients in paid paid work, 71 started education or training and 31 took up volunteer opportunities in 2012. Only 50 of its clients continued to be unoccupied. The briefing then then compares the lessons of implementing IPS in addiction services with IPS in mental health services. (Original abstract)
Beyond the gate: securing employment for offenders with mental health problems
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, GROVE Bob
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
For people with a history of offending, one of the most effective ways of preventing reoffending and improving their chances of leading a better life is likely to be finding and keeping a job. However, only a small proportion of prisoners in England have jobs to go to on release and employment support offered in the criminal justice system is too often denied to offenders with mental health problems. This briefing paper considers how to support people with mental health problems and offending histories into mainstream employment. Over the last 18 months, Centre for Mental Health has visited prisons, probation services and other sites across the country to find examples of where offenders with mental health problems are being supported into paid work. The evidence from this has been used to produce a set of five key elements of effective practice. These are: employers should play an instrumental role in creating and developing opportunities; recruitment needs to be pragmatic, on the basis of attitude and ‘character’ rather than qualifications or health status; support should be offered to employees and their managers for as long as they need it; opportunities for ‘pre-employment’ and ‘in work’ skills development should be linked to realistic employment opportunities; and criminal justice and other statutory agencies should facilitate effective pathways and access to real work and appropriate skills development while offenders are in the criminal justice system.
Mental health and employment: key opportunities to put policy into practice
- Authors:
- BACON Jenni, GROVE Bob, LOCKETT Helen
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following the publication of much new policy in December 2009, this paper aims to make sense of what all the policy means in practice and picks out the key commitments and opportunities. It describes how healthy workplaces are key to the Government’s public health approach which runs through both Working our Way to Better Health and New Horizons. The report outlines the importance of keeping people in work, and noted that preventing people from falling out of work because of mental health problems depends on intervening quickly when things go wrong, for example when people don’t return to work after sickness absence as expected. Ensuring that relationships between employer and employee don’t break down is crucial. A section on overcoming individual barriers to employment states that running through all the new policy is a focus on coordinated, individualised support for people wishing to gain employment or get back to work. This reports emphasises that employment should be at the heart of the ‘recovery vision’ for mental health services generally. The paper concludes that there have been more developments in mental health and employment policy in recent months than at any time in the last decade. There may be more to come.
Mental health practitioners' role in supporting people maintaining their jobs
- Authors:
- BOYCE Melanie, LOCKETT Helen, BACON Jenni
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2009, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Mental ill health is an important cause of work related disability. The individual and wider societal benefits of developing and improving the management of mental health in the workplace are discussed. The role of primary care and employers are also highlighted.
What's in a name? The IPS approach to supported employment
- Authors:
- BACON Jenni, LOCKETT Helen, RINALDI Miles
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(4), November 2008, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
One approach to supported employment, known as Individual placement and support or IPS, has been extensively evaluated and proven to help high numbers of people with severe mental health problems into work. This article recalls a visit this year to the UK by Professor Bob Drake and colleagues from Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA where the approach was developed, and explains the principles of supported employment and what it can mean for service users, staff, families and employers.
About time: commissioning to transform day and vocational services
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, SEYMOUR Linda, POZNER Adam
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 104p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People with severe mental health problems must be offered more and better practical support to achieve their hopes and ambitions, according to a new Sainsbury Centre guide for health and social care commissioners. About Time, by Helen Lockett, Linda Seymour and Adam Pozner, sets out how day and vocational services can make radical changes to offer people the support they need to build the lives
Travel matters: from NHS to independent sector
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, REYNOLDS Sally, COBBETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 10(4), November 2006, pp.29-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Travel Matters, based in Redhill, Surrey, is an independent travel agency offering a wide choice of travel and holidays at competitive prices. Ten years ago it was one of a number of employment projects run by an NHS trust to provide employment, training and development opportunities for people who had experienced mental health problems. The authors describe the journey towards independence.