The Enhanced Support Offer will equip us to meet this vision by delivering 13 measures specifically aimed at helping people with disabilities and long-term health conditions to move toward and into work
Community Partners
Community Partners will build on expertise within Jobcentre Plus to strengthen understanding of the needs of disabled people and those with health conditions to ensure tailored claimant support. They will have a lived experience or expert knowledge of disability with roles offered on secondment or fixed-term appointment for an initial 12 months.
Small Employer Offer (SEO)
The SEO provides an opportunity for Jobcentre Plus to actively engage with small local employers, establish relationships and raise awareness of the support that is available to them if they were to consider employing a person with a health condition or disability.
Journey to Employment
Disabled Peoples’ User Led Organisations and local Voluntary Sector Organisations will deliver personalised peer support job clubs in 71 sites to disabled people and people with long term health conditions. The job clubs will be overseen by a Community Employment Specialist who has a lived experience of disability or an in-depth knowledge of the issues these claimants face in finding and staying in employment.
Mental Health Training
Increasingly high volumes of claimants flowing into either the ESA Work Related Activity Group or Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work groups have mental health conditions and it is important to ensure work coaches are confident and capable to support this group. Work coaches will be provided with additional Mental Health Training to enable them to better support claimants with mental health conditions.
Contracted Provision Additional Places
Work Choice
Provides additional places for claimants that volunteer and meet the criteria of this voluntary contracted specialist disability employment provision. This contract extension will align with the start of the Work and Health programme.
Work and Health Programme
Due to launch in 2017, the programme will complement the Jobcentre Plus work coach delivery model to employment support, providing enhanced specialist support for those who need it particularly those claimants who volunteer and are prepared and motivated for the intensive support the new programme will offer.
JC+ Specialist Employability Support (SES)
The Enhanced Support Offer will equip JC+ to meet this vision by delivering 13 measures specifically aimed at helping people with disabilities and long-term health conditions to move toward and into work
Community Partners
Community Partners will build on expertise within Jobcentre Plus to strengthen understanding of the needs of disabled people and those with health conditions to ensure tailored claimant support. They will have a lived experience or expert knowledge of disability with roles offered on secondment or fixed-term appointment for an initial 12 months.
Small Employer Offer (SEO)
The SEO provides an opportunity for Jobcentre Plus to actively engage with small local employers, establish relationships and raise awareness of the support that is available to them if they were to consider employing a person with a health condition or disability.
Journey to Employment
Disabled Peoples’ User Led Organisations and local Voluntary Sector Organisations will deliver personalised peer support job clubs in 71 sites to disabled people and people with long term health conditions. The job clubs will be overseen by a Community Employment Specialist who has a lived experience of disability or an in-depth knowledge of the issues these claimants face in finding and staying in employment.
Mental Health Training
Increasingly high volumes of claimants flowing into either the ESA Work Related Activity Group or Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work groups have mental health conditions and it is important to ensure work coaches are confident and capable to support this group. Work coaches will be provided with additional Mental Health Training to enable them to better support claimants with mental health conditions.
Contracted Provision Additional Places
Work Choice
Provides additional places for claimants that volunteer and meet the criteria of this voluntary contracted specialist disability employment provision, this contract extension will align with the start of the Work and Health programme.
Work and Health Programme
Due to launch in 2017, the programme will complement the Jobcentre Plus work coach delivery model to employment support, providing enhanced specialist support for those who need it particularly those claimants who volunteer and are prepared and motivated for the intensive support the new programme will offer.
Specialist Employability Support (SES)
Provide additional places on the Specialist Employability Support programme.
Access to Work Mental Health Support Service
Providing increased funding for this programme which offers support for those with mental ill health moving into work or needing help to retain their current employment.
Proofs of Concept
Jobcentre Plus led Specialist Employability Support
Testing an in-house Jobcentre Plus led alternative to Specialist Employability Support (SES) model of provider-led support.
Specialist Advice
Trailing the use of voluntary specialist advice from Health Care Professionals, advice will be offered via a three-way conversation between the specialist, work coach and claimant covering general health management and appropriate work related activities to transition an individual towards work.
Local Supported Employment
Working with local authorities to deliver locally supported employment on an outcome payment basis focussing on those with learning difficulties, autism or severe mental health conditions who are known to local authority adult social care.
Young Persons Supported Work Experience
A programme aimed at young people with long term conditions who are further away from the labour market and have little or no work experience to enable them to gain valuable supported workplace experience, help them get the most from the opportunity and support their future job search.
Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) Intensive Support Trial
Work is underway to develop more detail on this trial.