Employment Support Service
Somerset Service Awarded National Centre of Excellence
Status
The Trust is one of the nine new Centres of Excellence in
supporting people who use mental health services into employment
announced by the Sainsbury Centre on 9 November 2009.
Please see the following internal link to view more about the
Centre of Excellence award.
Employment Support Service
The Employment Support Service aims to
offer a bridge between the mental health
service users in Somerset who would
like paid work, local employers and other agencies
such as JobCentre Plus.
The team supports service users to
access open employment, on a full- or part-time basis,
in the local job market. The service
has adopted the Individual Placement and Support model, the key
principles of which are: a clear focus on competitive employment;
active job
search; integration with mental health
care (county-wide Community Mental Health
Teams); responsiveness to user
preferences, continuous and comprehensive assessment;
time-limited support.
The service works closely with partner
organisations such as JobCentre Plus, Westcountry
Training and Consultancy Services, the
Condition Management Programme, Adult
Learning and Leisure and employers in
the county, to actively promote the interests of
service users who have experienced
mental health difficulties and who wish to work.
We also offer the Pathfinder
programme. This programme supports service users to find
paid work within the Partnership Trust
or the local health and social care community. This
programme represents an opportunity
for the Trust and statutory sector employers to
demonstrate a commitment to employing
mental health service users. Grahame Milroy
also works with carers who wish to
return to work, or to balance their work and needs as a
carer if they are in work and finding
it difficult to manage both roles.
Contact The Team:
Employment Support Service
Psychological Therapies Team Room
Foundation House
Wellsprings Road
Taunton
TA2 7PQ
Tel: 01823
368350
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