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Health & Employability

Health & Employability. A Training Pack for Health Professionals. Employment & Health. Employment could arguably be the most important public health issue in the UK and the largest determinant of ill health in the workless population. Policy Context.

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Health & Employability

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  1. Health & Employability A Training Pack for Health Professionals

  2. Employment & Health Employment could arguably be the most important public health issue in the UK and the largest determinant of ill health in the workless population.

  3. Policy Context • Healthy Working Lives a plan for action Scottish Government 2004 • Workforce Plus Scottish Government 2006 • Better Health Better Care Scottish Government 2007 • Health works Scottish Government 2009

  4. Background Scottish Government Lifelong Learning Directorate Employability Team • Identified need for training for health staff • Existing resources - varying contents approaches & materials • Duplication of effort • Non-standardised

  5. Development • Expert group formed • Wide representation • Drawing from good practice • cross sector approaches • Focus on health staff Employability for Health Professionals…... or ……Health & Employability

  6. Health & Employability AIM To raise awareness of the links between health and employability and explore with healthcare staff ways to consider incorporating this into practice for the benefit of their patients / clients • Promotes concept • Half day • Participatory learning • KSF

  7. Employability “Employability encompasses all the things that enable people to increase their chances of getting a job, staying in, and progressing further, in work”. . . . “for each individual, there will be different reasons why they are not achieving what they would like in employment – perhaps their confidence and motivation, their skills, their health, or where they live compared to where the jobs are available”. (Workforce Plus: Scottish Government Employability Framework 2006) . . . for each individual, there will be different reasons why they are not achieving good health – perhaps their confidence and motivation, their skills, their job, or where they live compared to where healthcare is available.

  8. Fit for Work? Consider your overall health today on a scale of 1-10, with 10 the absolute best and 1 the worst it could be 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

  9. The Evidence Is work good for your health and well-being? (Waddell G, Burton AK.2006) In a nutshell: • work is good for health • long-term unemployment is bad for health But…. What does this mean (real world)

  10. Barriers & Support • Barriers • impact on health • NHS Role • positive & negative • Employability Pathway • insight not experts • Health Improvement • change perspective

  11. Role of Health Professionals When and how should health staff discuss employability with their patients? • Addressing similar barriers • Not fixing everything • Influencing perception • Skills and rapport

  12. ….. What Next? • Pack with NES • Flying start programme • Online resource • Train the trainers • Roll out…… http://www.employabilityinscotland.com/

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