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Sealing a New Deal for mental health
- Author:
- GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.11.98, 1998, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that the New Deal cannot transform the working lives of mentally ill people in its present form.
Qualitative evaluation of a job retention pilot for people with mental health problems
- Authors:
- THOMAS Kristina, SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of General Practice, 55(516), July 2005, pp.546-547.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of General Practitioners
Interviews with job retention clients, their employers and case managers were carried out. A group interview with GPs was also conducted. Client-focused interventions were reported to be helpful by clients and GPs and employer -focused interventions were appreciated by both clients and employers. All clients attributed positive outcomes to the service. In conclusion, these preliminary results support the further development and evaluation of job retention services.
Working all together
- Authors:
- THOMAS Tina, SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2004, pp.30-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Job retention schemes have an essential role in a recovery orientated mental health service. This article looks at a job retention team (JRT) based in Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust (AWMHTP). The JRT operates on a case management model, and offers a free service to people in employment currently experiencing mental health problems and at a risk of loosing their jobs as a result. The ultimate aim of the pilot is to develop a model for job retention services across the UK. Summarises findings from a qualitative evaluation of the project's first year of operation, from June 2002 to May 2003. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 of the 29 clients with whom the JRT had worked over the 12 months, 5 of their employers, 6 of their GPs and 2 case managers.
The government's new employment agenda: implications for mental health service managers
- Author:
- GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(5), October 1998, pp.193-199.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article proposes a new engagement between mental health services and the social inclusion and employment agendas that are a core part of the government's programme. Initiatives such as Welfare to Work, New Deal and Health Action Zones are explained, and suggestions are made about some of the opportunities they present for improving mental health services and the lives of service users.
What have we learnt about mental health and employment?
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob, SEEBOHM Patience
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(1), 2006, pp.8-15.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article examines the evidence regarding who can benefit from vocational interventions, service users' motivation to work, how people can be helped to find and keep a job and how unemployment can be prevented in the first place. The authors then look at practice evidence to show how effective services aimed at supporting service users to return or retain contact with the labour market can be developed.
Writing the 'user chapter'
- Author:
- GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(2), May 1999, pp.20-24.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Increasingly users of mental health services are asked to give up their time to represent the 'user perspective'. Whether this is an opportunity or an imposition is debatable - it can be daunting and at the same time exhilarating. Presents a users perspective of the experience and provides some guidelines for good practice.
Mental health and employment: shaping a new agenda
- Author:
- GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(2), April 1999, pp.131-140.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the principles which should underpin mental health employment services and suggests that they should be viewed through the conceptual framework of the social model of disability. Proposes a framework for a locality service constellation which focuses upon support into open employment and job creation measures.
Challenging barriers to employment, training and education for mental health service users: the service user's perspective
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob, SEEBOHM Patience
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(4), August 2001, pp.395-404.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
In 1999 the 'Care Programme to Work' project at the Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy undertook a survey of service users in Sheffield. The aim was to identify users' employment, education and training needs, as they perceived them. One hundred and fifty-six interviews were carried out across the city, followed by 11 focus groups to explore vocational issues in more detail and ensure that the views of groups under-represented in the interviews were included. Service users were employed as interviewers and focus group leaders. Open employment was the most frequently identified long-germ goal. The study highlighted the need for an integrated approach to vocational guidance and support; for strong links with employment and educational agencies and with projects supporting diverse groups of users; for access to impartial benefits advice; and for mental health services themselves to take a lead in providing and promoting employment opportunities.
Upsetting the apple cart whilst pulling it along the road: implementing the national service framework for mental health
- Authors:
- PECK Edward, GROVE Bob, HOWELL Valerie
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 8(2), April 2000, pp.36-44.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article argues that the traditional approach to translating national policy into local practice, based as it is on a metaphor of organisations as machines, will not lead to effective implementation of the national service framework for mental health. Rather, the paper contends that there is need for a broader range of metaphors of organisation to be deployed in the creation of robust implementation process and suggests three-negotiated order, chaos theory and learning theory - that the authors have found of particular value.
Leros-escape into life
- Authors:
- HENDERSON John, GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(2), May 1999, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Ten years ago the Greek island of Leros became notorious throughout Europe as one of the worse examples of the inhumanity of the 'total institution' still existing within the European Union. The authors provide an account of their experience of being involved in the reforms and the lessons learned from Leros.