Below are resources relating to Mental Health and Employment.
- PSA 16 Meeting Notes.
Notes from the June 2010 PSA 16 meeting. - Ways to wellbeing
The Kirklees Vocational Strategy for mental health 2009-2012. - A Place to Live
Joint commissioning strategy for accommodation for adults who experience mental health problems in Kirklees 2008 - 2011 - A Summary of the Coalition Governments Policy Approach
The purpose of this paper is to offer a brief overview of the Coalition Governments policy objectives with specific reference to mental health, employment and welfare reform in the UK. - QIPP Paper on Mental Health and Employment
This paper provides commissioners and other partners with a strong rationale for investment in the mental health and employment agenda. - PSA 16 Y&H Regional Delivery Plan 2010/11
PSA 16 - "Increasing the proportion of socially excluded adults in settled accommodation and employment, education or training." - The can do guide to getting into work: Making Personal
Budgets work for you
The CAN DO GUIDE TO GETTING INTO WORK is aimed at people with mental health conditions or who are experiencing emotional distress, who are not working but would like to. - YHIP ‘Action Learning in Partnership Programme’ (ALIPP)
Details frm the YHIP ALIPP event on 22nd April in Wakefield. - Work, Recovery & Inclusion
Employment support for people in contact with secondary mental health services - Statement of Fitness for Work
A guide for General Practitioners and other doctors. - New Horizon Scan - May 2010, Employment and Learning Skills Reference
Group
The May 2010 update relating to Employment and Mental Health Issues informing the New Horizon Agenda. - New Horizon Scan - April 2010
Employment and Learning Skills Reference Group. - Mental Health and Employment Update - March 2010
This document is an update on the work in Yorkshire and Humber on Mental Health and Employment. - New Horizon Scan - March 2010
Updates relating to Employment and Mental Health Issues informing the New Horizon Agenda. - Calderdale Mental Health and Employment Strategy 2009 – 2012
The purpose of this strategy is to set out a framework, including actions, for how all stakeholders in Calderdale work together towards increasing the employment rate for people with mental health problems in the locality. - New Horizon`s Scan - January 2010 Employment and Learning Skills Reference Group.
"The View From The Crow's Nest". A report from Terry Simpson and Lindsay Gillies containing updates relating to Employment and Mental Health Issues informing the New Horizon's Agenda.
- Mental Health in the Workplace: Skills for Line Managers training course
Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Partnership have developed this one day training course aimed at line managers from any sector. - Staying Mentally Healthy Following Redundancy
It is recognised that being made redundant is likely to be in the top ten most stressful events that can happen throughout your life. However it can also be seen as an opportunity for change, a chance to re-evaluate what is important to you, and what direction your career might take in the future. This document has tips to staying mentally healthy if made redundant as well as information on where to get support if you need it. - Mental Health in the Workplace - Skills for Line Managers
This flyer (produced by the YHIP Mental Health and Employment) project has information on early recognition and knowing what practical steps to take that can mean employees get help when they need it and minimise any effect on productivity of an organisation. - Job retention training poster
This poster has information about the training being offered through the Mental Health and Employment project. - A Regional Strategy for Yorkshire and The Humber to Promote Inclusion, Through Employment, for People with Mental Health Needs
Download the strategy... - Social Inclusion Conference: Mental Health and Employment
November 7th 2008, Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds
This conference was jointly organised by the Care Services Improvement Partnership, Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber and the Department of Health. The aim is to begin a regional dialogue on improving employment outcomes for adults accessing mental health services. Over 160 practitioners and policy makers from the region attended.
Download the conference report... - Shift Line Managers resource
The Shift Line Managers' Resource is a practical guide to managing and supporting people with mental health problems in the workplace. - "Hospital" - Short TV Film
The film shows a busy casualty department looking for a new member of staff who can step in and make life or death decisions. But will the talented candidate who has had previous mental health problems be given the job? The films (that were shown on television) prompt the viewer to question what they would do in the same circumstances. What could they be missing out on if they don’t consider the candidate’s talents? - The NSIP website for employment has a host of useful resources.
- Work Matters: Vocational Navigation for Occupational Therapy Staff
A new best practice guide Work Matters: Vocational Navigation for Occupational Therapy Staff has been jointly developed by the National Social Inclusion Programme and the College of Occupational Therapists. It is designed to help occupational therapy staff recognise the importance of work as an integral part of an individual’s recovery and provides information on how to assist patients to take charge of their own return to work and on establishing effective partnerships with other service providers.
The guidance draws on latest evidence about the most effective ways to engage with people about the impact of their health on work capabilities and employment options. Although developed for occupational therapy staff the guide will be of use for any health professional wanting to improve their ability to provide vocational advice or encourage patients with greater barriers to work, like many with mental health problems, to take appropriate steps for achieving their work aspirations.
Finding and Keeping work: Specifying the issues, activities, roles and supports needed for those with mental health needs - Finding and Keeping work: Specifying the issues, activities, roles and supports needed for those with mental health needs
This document has been published by DWP in Volume 9, Number 2 of the Journal of Occupational Psychology, Employment and Disability (Autumn 2007). The book provides gives a comprehensive overview of the whole disability employment area, from high level welfare reform strategy through to the delivery of effective vocational services on the ground.
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Download a summary version... - Vocational Services Guidance
Publication of Vocational Services for people with severe mental health problems: Commissioning guidance, which provides a framework to commission evidence-based vocational services and the tools to monitor the effectiveness of such services.
Download the guidance... - The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning
The second edition of The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning (2008) has been published by National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE).
The book is designed to be easy to read and, although aimed at all disabled people, will be of particular interest to people with mental health problems and those who support them. It is full of information and advice to help people in their journey into work and there are blank action plans to help people set out goals. It contains a diary, hints and tips for job hunting, information about learning opportunities, a FAQ section on different kinds of employment programmes and provision available and how taking up work might affect benefits. There are also inspiring stories of people who have moved off benefits into work.
Download the document... - As part of Dame Carol Blacks Health and Work review The Royal College of Psychiatrists were commissioned to review the evidence of mental health and work.
Download the findings... - Worklessness and health – what do we know about the causal relationship?
This review provides a synopsis of the literature about the relationship between worklessness and ill health.
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