Employment Support
How can Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies help you?
Employment (along with volunteering and education) can be an important part of our lives, as it can supply us with rewarding feelings and a positive sense of purpose. Therefore, if somebody is facing barriers or problems around employment, it is understandable that this may affect their wellbeing.
Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies wants to offer everybody a chance to gain support and overcome the issues they may have regarding employment.
Our Employment Advisors are here to support anybody who is currently referred into the Wellbeing service, by providing advice, motivation, and guidance regarding employment. The support is here to compliment your recovery by providing additional practical support to reach your own personal goals around finding, returning or remaining in employment. This can be accessed before, during, or after the support you have received from your Therapist.
The Employment Advisors within the service are able to offer bespoke advice on finding, remaining, or returning to work. The Employment Advisors are able to offer one-to-one support in managing feelings of stress, anxiety, or depression in the workplace. Liaising frequently with employers in an attempt to improve the understanding of wellbeing in the workplace and improve conditions by making adjustments for them to return.
Once they are working with Employment Advisors within Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies we create a bespoke Employability Assessment to build rapport with the client and explore the issues or barriers related to their mental health that are impacting on their performance in work or on seeking work. The Employment Advisors or Senior Employment Advisors will be seeking to establish the customer's goals and aspirations in seeking employability support to improve the management of their mental health at work, retain their role, move to the alternative role, or seek suitable employment in line with their skills and capabilities.
We support Clients when they return to work to make this transition as seamless as it can be and work with employers to help with the return to work, with clients remaining on our caseloads until they are confident in their position at work.