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Access to employment: a supported employment project to enable mental health service users to obtain jobs within mental health teams
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, BUCKFIELD Richard, CHOY Daisy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 6(3), June 1997, pp.307-318.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Considers the importance of employment for people who experience serious mental health problems, together with the shortage of employment opportunities for them. A supported employment project is described. The problems encountered in this initiative, and the solutions sought, are outlined. The project has provided much needed employment opportunities for people who have experienced serious mental health problems. It has also recognised the special skills and expertise of users and made these available to other users and staff within the service. There also appears to have been a positive effect on staff attitudes and practices.
Mad to work here...
- Authors:
- DAVIDSON Ben, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.10.97, 1997, pp.26-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the Pathfinder User Employment Project which helps to give mental health service users the chance to transcend their patient status by employing them within the sector.
Real lives: promoting recovery through personalisation and peer support
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19(1), 2015, pp.22-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of Real Lives: a community interest company that provides peer support for people who face significant mental health challenges using personal budgets. Design/methodology/approach: The paper offers a descriptive summary of the vision behind Real Lives and the successful realisation of this vision in practice based on interviews by the first author with the directors, Operational Manager, Cafe Manager and “Peers and Allies for in Living” who provide support to clients. Findings: The successful development of Real Lives shows that it is possible to utilise peer support and personal budgets to a create small, values based, financially viable organisation outside the statutory sector that is part of its community and can provide outside the statutory sector. A service for people facing significant mental health challenges that is personalised, recovery-focused and puts the client in control and is focused on helping them to do the things they want to do and pursue their aspirations. Originality/value: Real Lives is an innovative recovery-focused service that is part of its community and offers a model for utilising Self-Directed Support and personal budgets and that might be replicated by others. (Publisher abstract)
Harnessing the expertise of experience: increasing access to employment within mental health services for people who have themselves experienced mental health problems
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, RINALDI Miles, HARDISTY Joss
- Journal article citation:
- Diversity in Health and Care, 7(1), 2010, pp.13-21.
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Publishing
The User Employment Programme at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust was established in 1995 with the intention of increasing access to employment within mental health services for people who have themselves experienced mental health problems. The programme has two elements, a supported employment programme, and a Charter for the Employment of People who have Experienced Mental Health Problems which is designed to decrease employment discrimination. This article describes the employment outcomes that were achieved during the 12 year period between January 1995 and 2007. During that time 142 people with mental health problems were supported in 163 posts within the trust, 86% of whom continued to work or were engaged in professional training. At the time of appointment people with schizophrenia had been unemployed for significantly longer periods than subjects with other mental health problems. There was no significant association between length of time for which support was provided, job type, job grade or success in sustaining employment. In 2007, 23% of all recruits to the trust had experienced mental health problems. Recruits with mental health problems were more numerous among those recruited to higher-grade positions in the organisation. The authors comment that the findings strongly suggest that people who have experienced mental health problems can work effectively in ordinary positions within mental health services under the same terms and conditions as any other employees. They conclude that mental health services have an important role to play as exemplar employers of people with mental health problems.
Unemployment rates among patients with long term mental health problems
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, RINALDI Miles
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(8), August 2002, pp.295-298.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This article surveys the unemployment rates among people with mental health problems in the London Borough of Wandsworth, It argues that greater attention to vocational issues in clinical teams is required. The challenge of mental health services is to make employment interventions available to those who need them.
A tricky act to balance
- Authors:
- REPPER Julie, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.3.98, 1998, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses the dilemma facing mental health nurses as on the one hand they are expected to provide services in accordance with the wishes of service users, and on the other faced with increasing demands that both the public and services users are protected.
Implementing recovery through organisational change 2: recovery, personalisation and personal budgets
- Authors:
- ALAKESON Vidhya, PERKINS Rachel
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One of a series of briefings for the Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change project, this paper aims to explore the links between recovery and personalisation and their part in a common agenda for mental health system transformation. It describes personalisation, personal budgets in social care, and personal health budgets in the NHS (noting that 26 pilot sites are currently experimenting with these for mental health in areas such as early intervention, assertive outreach, and older people's mental health services). It examines the philosophy and objectives of recovery and personalisation in the context of the current service system, and discusses the implications of personalised recovery-focused practice and shared decision-making. It also looks at personal health budgets as tools for recovery, identifying 8 core features and arguing that these need to be put in place to ensure that recovery-oriented services maximise the potential of personal health budgets.
Women in context: good practice in mental health services for women
- Editors:
- PERKINS Rachel, et al
- Publisher:
- Good Practices in Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 146p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers aiming to contribute to a better understanding of women's needs and the development of appropriate mental health services and initiatives that validate women's experiences. Includes chapters on: the survivor perspective; women as carers; women as mental health workers; African women in the diaspora; Asian women; Chinese women; Irish women in Britain; Jewish women; refugee women; lesbians; older women; women with children; women living in rural areas; sexual abuse in childhood; serious long term mental health problems; mental health issues and learning disabilities; problems around food; self injury; secure provision and the special hospitals; sexual harassment and assault in psychiatric services; and key issues in services for all women.