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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.
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.