Developing resilience: supporting people with mental health difficulties access learning, skills and employment opportunities

[Training Context] [Target Audience] [Overall Workshop Aim] [What this workshop will do] [Workshop Outline] [Event Information] [Application Conditions]

Training participants who have attended previous training events said:

Very interactive – brilliant training methods & resources Grant McPherson, Personal Adviser, Prospects Employment and Training, Bournemouth

Particularly enjoyed having [service user involved]. This really added value to what we were discussing Faye Smith, Project Manager ‘SAM’, Ipswich Media Clubhouse

Excellent package and approach which can be implemented across a broad range of services – can see how [resources] can be used back in the work place. Alison Rimmington, NHS, Nottinghamshire

There were people from many different sectors [and] lots of possibilities and opportunities to meet people and learn about further support and resources we can access - the trainers were excellent and very passionate throughout the day.  Stephanie Barksby, Technical Instructor – Workskills, Leicester

First- hand experience, making it real.  Linda Smithers, Practitioner, South Yorkshire Condition Management Programme

Excellent to have a service user's point of view

Excellent delivery and team teaching

Feel confident now if I was presented with somebody bneeding support with a issue.  Connexions Advice staff, Liverpool

Very engaging,discussing very relevant issues. Marc Lucking, Vocational Support Worker, Tee’s Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust

Excellent for front line workers. Andrew Cutts, Charity volunteer, Sheffield

Training Context

One in six adults experiences a mental health problem at any one time; one in five employees can experience mental ill-health in a year. The significant role education and sustainable employment can play in promoting recovery, highlighted in Realising ambitions: better employment support for people with a mental health condition (DWP 2009), now underpins the government’s strategy to combat the economic and social welfare costs of mental health problems.  No health without mental health (DH, 2011) recognises people with a mental health problem who experience multiple and/or complex barriers to participation need effective individual support and how greater collaboration across services is required to achieve this.  

The ideas and supporting resources introduced during this training will help you to develop more effective practice to meet this challenge. The content has been devised in collaboration with the many practitioners and people with lived experience of mental health problems who took part in the Take Ten People national project (2009-10) and Take Ten People in the North East regional activities (2010-11), and reflects what has been demonstrated really "works".

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Target Audience

Practitioners supporting people with experience of a mental health problem who access, or want to access, education or employment services. This includes a wide range of contexts: learning and skills; information, advice and guidance and careers advice; mental health and social care services; social housing; the criminal justice system; IAPT services; Job Centre Plus; for Work Choice; Work Programme and Work Capability Assessment contractors; supported employment; volunteering services; and the local community.

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Overall Workshop Aim

This workshop aims to equip participants with an understanding of how to work effectively with individuals with a mental health condition to help them realise their learning and/or employment goals.

Participants will use in the session, and take away a range of resources. These include a copy of Discovering Potential (Nightingale and James, 2004) and selected materials from Take Ten People: integrating employment and learning and skills for people who have experience of mental health difficulties (2010).

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What this workshop will do

Outcomes for organisations include:

• Increased positive and sustainable vocational outcomes for clients with a mental health problem who experience multiple and/or complex barriers to participation in education and/or employment;
• Practitioners with increased confidence and understanding of how employability skills can be developed across sectors (health and social care, employment, Third Sector, learning and skills) and integrated into service delivery to best support progression towards education and/or employment for people with a mental health problem.

The workshop will enable participants:

• To identify the most effective ways of working to support people with experience of a mental health problem who may face multiple and/or complex barriers to participation;
• To recognise resilience as an employability skill and understand the role it plays for people with a mental health problem in recovery, wellbeing and engaging with the social world of education and work;
• To identify how services offered by partners in other sectors may help achieve improved outcomes for individuals.

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Workshop Outline

NOTE: This is an activity-based workshop which includes the use of video and some online resources

09:30      Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available)

10.00      Welcome and introductions

10.15      Why can engaging in learning and skills or employment be a positive benefit for some people who experience mental health problems?

              How can I support an individual to succeed?

              Recognising achievement and existing skills

              Developing resilience

12:30      Sandwich lunch

13.00      Opportunities, choices and control for the individual 

              Working with partners to support individuals 

              Burning issues - a focus on some key issues identified by practitioners

              Bringing it all together: responding to case studies from practice 

              Reflection and Evaluation  

15.30      Close

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Event Information

Arrival and registration is at 9:30am for a 10:00am start. The event will end at 3:30pm
Event fee per person: £155 (Non NIACE members rate)
Event fee per person: £135 (NIACE members rate)
(includes sandwich lunch, tea/coffee)
NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference or course fees.

Only online application forms with the payments section completed will be processed.
NB: If you wish us to invoice your employer we require a copy of the Purchase Order before the form is processed.
Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed applications (one online application per person)
Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there may not be handouts for all sessions
If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact: events@niace.org.uk

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Application Conditions

Event: Tuesday 7 February 2012
Closing Date: Tuesday 24 January 2012
Cancellations are non-refundable
The full fee is payable prior to the event
Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event
A 15 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille
Places are to be reserved online – scroll up and click on Apply Now
Reservations by telephone cannot be accepted
Applications forms are individually acknowledged by e-mail. Joining instructions, including map and directions, will be e-mailed out one week before the event.
NIACE reserves the right to reject applicants who are not from the target audience list.

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