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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.
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.