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Getting the right result
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, June 2011, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
CMG and Pure Innovations is a national non-for-profit employment scheme that helps people with learning disabilities and mental health needs to get into work. This article describes how the scheme worked with and supported one of their clients, who had mild learning disabilities and mental health needs, so he was able to secure a permanent job.
Benefits and work for people with mental health problems: a briefing for mental health workers
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, SCOTT Judy
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health service users often want to return to work, but after six months of sickness absence, only half ever succeed. Many are unsure or misinformed about how to make the journey into employment without feeling financially or emotionally insecure. It is important for mental health support workers in every field to have some knowledge of the benefits system – this briefing enables them to offer accurate guidance which will help service users make the move into employment with reduced risk to their wellbeing or their income. The briefing identifies seven major disincentives to work which must be tackled by policy makers before returning to employment can become a clear, easy process for service users. Under the present system, people may experience no financial gain, or even a drop in income from working, they may be unable to get financial support for practical needs at work, and they may be forced to undergo an untimely medical review.
New thinking about mental health and employment
- Authors:
- GROVE Bob, SECKER Jenny, SEEBOHM Patience, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 162p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Until recently it has been assumed that people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems are unable to work, unless or until they recover. That assumption is now being challenged by international research demonstrating that, with the right support, people can succeed in finding and keeping a job even when they continue to need support from mental health services. This book draws together the research undertaken to date and combines it with mental health service users’ perspectives on the workplace to validate key points.
The route to work
- Author:
- FORREST Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 15.12.05, 2005, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Mental health service users often struggle to return to employment. This article reports on an initiative from South West London and St George's Mental Health trust who are working on strategies to employ service users and improve their employment prospects.
Working solution for mental health
- Author:
- MOLODYNSKI Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 124(6396), 2 May 2014, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The author and colleagues show how and why service users should be helped back into employment. The article describes responses to a measure of social and occupational functioning, the Mini-ICP-APP, which is used for all new patient assessments by the community mental health team.
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.
Leading by example
- Author:
- CAROLAN Stephany
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 10(3), August 2006, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author describes the start of a journey by Hampshire Partnership Trust towards becoming an exemplar employer though participation in the CSIP Leading by Example project. The trust aims to become and exemplar employer for all staff - but explicitly for those who have experienced mental ill health.
Through pain and isolation to acceptance
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Shaun, BERTRAM Mark
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 10(2), May 2006, pp.13-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The importance of employment for people who use mental health services has been highlighted with the release of the Mental Health and Social Exclusion report. However, what remains less clear is what this process actually involves for service users and vocational rehabilitation staff. This article describes the process from the perspective of a person receiving mental health services and someone working in a vocational support role. Both accounts highlight how crucial supportive relationships and time are in helping people on their vocational journeys.
We want to be able to work
- Author:
- MORGAN Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2005, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Highland Users Group is a network of people who use mental health services in the Highlands. This article reports on discussions within the group (meetings were held in 11 of their 13 branches, with 83 people taking part in discussions) too investigate why so few of the group were in employment.
A survivor's guide to working in mental health services
- Authors:
- ROOKE-MATTHEWS Susan, LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 32p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people who have experienced the mental health system and are interested in working within it. Outlines: the difficulties and challenges facing user workers; recent changes in practice and policy; good practice recommendations for employers; and professional schemes and sources of support for user workers.