Sharing what works in the UK

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health – what we do Employment Programme Priorities Work with health professionals, health services and providers of specialist employment support Work with employers to improve the capacity of the workplace to employ and retain people who have experienced mental ill health Work on ways of meeting the employment needs of people with mental health problems within the criminal justice system
Don’t we have a duty to implement this knowledge base? Analogy - overwhelming evidence that seat belts prevent road fatalities, we ensure we have legislation to implement the evidence; we know what works – why are we not putting this knowledge into practice as a matter of routine?
Employment’ appears only 20 times in the 153 page document The written care plan for an individual should include: ‘action needed for employment, education or training or another occupation’ The carer’s plan should include: action needed to secure advice on income, housing, educational and employment matters
Framework for implementation; we need to make this work
Government policy in the UK is largely informed by the evidence base Supports the direction of travel Now provides a strong framework for action / implementation Health – should measure employment status and vice versa
Majority of claimants will be required to participate in some sort of work-related activity Supportive, good change in emphasis but concerns that Government funded generic employment services will always exclude/marginalise people with mhps, particularly as funding mechanisms promote creaming and actively go against the evidence base. Therefore responsibility, although joint between DH and DWP, needs to lie with Health.
or ‘specialist mental health services’ e.g. in-patient care, crisis resolution, assertive outreach, early intervention teams, community mental health teams (CMHTs) etc Increasing emphasis on early intervention, job retention, recovery orientated mental health services – e.g. employment advisors in GP surgeries and CMHTs – commitment there, but not necessarily in widespread practice A national survey of mental health service clients in the UK found that 50% wanted help with finding paid work but were not receiving it (Healthcare Commission, 2006).
Acknowledge Geoff Waghorn
Acknowledge Geoff Waghorn
A set of Key Performance Indicators for employment services: Context indicators Input indicators Process indicators Outcome indicators
We want to demonstrate that it is possible to establish high fidelity (and hence high performing) EBSE services in a range of service configurations, partnerships, urban/rural conditions, different regional labour markets
What we are already learning and seeing from our own experience and the increasing literature now being published on implementation from across the world – US, AUS, NZ etc
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