STATUS EMPLOYMENT

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STATUS EMPLOYMENT

• Robert Elston
• Chief Executive

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MISSION STATEMENT

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• Status Employment
• Moving towards, gaining and remaining in work
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OUR VALUES

• 50 of working age disabled people not in work
  Disabled people are more than twice as likely
  than non-disabled people to have no
  qualifications. Status Employment will always
  challenge disabling attitudes to ensure that work
  and training opportunities are a matter of equal
  right. Status Employment promotes the social
  model of disability, which asserts that people,
  policy and the built environment disable
  individuals.

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Supported Employment

• We have been a traditional Supported Employment
  agency since 1992. We originally worked with
  people with learning disabilities and since 1998
  people receiving mental health services. The
  model that we work to is to a place train and
  support working in partnership with health
  professionals.

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PEOPLE CAN WORK SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT
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What does good employment support look like?

• Supported employment or job coaching
• Based on what people know works
• About REAL jobs
• Wages are paid at the going rate for the job,
  with the same terms and conditions as all other
  employees
• The job helps the person to meet their life goals
  and aspirations
• The role is valued by managers and colleagues
• The job has similar hours and times at work as
  other employees with safe working conditions

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What does good employment support look like?
Overarching guiding principle Fundamental to
supported employment is that everyone can work
with the right job and the right support.
Providers of supported employment should be able
to offer a zero rejection policy, as everyone
should have the opportunity to work and
contribute to society.
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What does good employment support look like?

• Guiding principles
• Choice and control
• Partnership
• Full inclusion
• Rapid job search
• Careers
• Natural supports
• Long-term support if and when required
• Assistive technology
• Continuous quality improvement
• Right to work in a safe workplace
• Protection of human rights and freedom from abuse

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What does good employment support look like?

• Work with the job seeker
• Engagement
• Getting to know you
• Agreeing a plan and support strategy together
• Work with the employer
• Engagement
• Understanding needs and identifying vacancies
• Getting to know the job
• Identifying a support strategy for the employer
• Job match
• Employers get the right worker and jobseekers get
  the right job
• Arranging the right support
• DEVELOP A CAREER

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SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENTCASE STUDY
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Daniel

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Prior to Attending Status

• Daniel has been in the mental health system for
  many years.
• Had not been in a permanent job for at least six
  years

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Attending Status Employment

• Carried out a Vocational Profile
• Compiled Support Strategy
• Carried out job search, interview techniques and
  mock interviews

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Starting Employment

• Daniel started work as an assistant in the
  Clinical Coding Department
• Working with Daniels Supervisor, Manager and
  Occupational Health
• Marriage, mortgage and promotion

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Employers View of Supported Employment

• As an employer I have found the support provided
  to both myself and my employee to be invaluable.
• If it wasnt for Elaines support I am sure
  Daniel would have taken more sickness days.

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Employers View of Supported Employment

• Also as an employer it is excellent to be able to
  discuss my concerns regarding Daniels well being
  or performance as they arise.

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Employers View Of Supported Employment

• I am certain that without this support some
  people with mental health issues would struggle
  to hold down jobs. As an employer I dont think
  we would have found it so easy to support Daniel
  without the structure of supported employment
  being in place.

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Daniels View On Supported Employment

• Elaine was more interested in helping me find
  the job that was suitable for me and not just
  forcing me into any job. I found the most
  suitable job for me and with the support that
  Elaine gave me I have been able to hold the job
  down for 3 years

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Finding Work For People With Mental Health Issues

• No one size fits all. It is important to
  reassess your options. Elaine helped me do this
  and helped me realize I was no longer going to
  earn my previous salary, though with support
  which was invaluable it has given me confidence
  to gain two promotions

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Stigma

• Stigma is still a big problem. The fear of being
  discriminated against is as real as being
  discriminated against. The current trend is to
  brandish every person with a mental health
  problem as a benefit scrounging layabout. It is
  simply not helpful. That is why the support of
  Elaine is invaluable by helping to educate the
  employers

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Concerns about Disclosing

• Everything about disclosure concerned me. That
  is why I had chosen self employment as a way of
  avoiding the whole issue. My worry was that any
  employer would see the illness not the employee

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Stress

• The NHS is a high stress environment and the
  work gets to everyone. My boss has said to me she
  wished she had an Elaine for every one of her
  staff. Without her supporting both me and the
  employer I think it would have got very
  complicated and messy

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Daniel
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Resources

• Status Employment is a member of the British
  Association of Supported Employment a trade
  association offering support, training and
  quality development for supported employment
  practitioners, candidates, employers and
  commissioners

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Resources

• BASE is also a member of EUSE both websites have
  useful resources available to both on their
  websites
• http//base-uk.org/
• http//www.euse.org/

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Status EmploymentContact details

• r.elston_at_statusemployment.org.uk
• 6 West Way Gardens
• Shirley
• Croydon
• CR0 8RA
• 0208 655 6644