Work skills
Back-Up Work Skills Course
October (tba), London
This two day course will focus on practical skills needed to get the job you want – if you have questions about job searches, CV writing or interview techniques this course is for you.
Helen Cooke, Director and Founder of Genesis HR Consultancy who will lead the training course, is spinally injured herself. Helen works with a vast array of companies advising them on how to overcome the challenges and issues they face around the employment of disabled people and how to tap into this often overlooked pool of talented individuals. Helen will be able to talk to you about specific issues including how best to declare your spinal injury and what support you can expect from employers.
Day One:
This day will focus on practical tips that will get you on the way to finding jobs that suit you and your skills. The day will include:
- identifying your strengths and skills
- writing a great CV or application form
- preparing for interviews
Day Two:
During the second day you will consolidate your learnings by putting them into practice in a safe environment. In addition to hearing how other spinally injured people have successfully found employment, Day Two provides the opportunity for you to try out your interview skills.
But don’t worry about the accommodation and transport! As part of the course, accommodation and transport will also be included.
Contact Liz to book your place on 0208 875 1805 or email
Download your application form here (coming soon!)
Work is Good for You
Professor Mansel Aylward, Unum Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research gives his views on why it’s not just your bank balance that will benefit from you getting a job.
"Work is good for You" Ariticle dated June 15, 2007
http://www.gov.je/SocialSecurity/NewsReleases/WorkisGoodforYou.htm
On Friday 15 June Professor Mansel Aylward will be speaking to doctors and health care professionals about the positive effect of work on health and wellbeing. He will also be talking about the factors, other than strictly medical, which may cause a person to become workless.
Professor Aylward and his colleague Dr Roger Thomas have been advising the Social
Security Department of ways of assessing disablement for the new Income Support system due to be implemented in January 2008, based on functional ability.
"Work is good for us", Professor Aylward advises, "Not only is it the best way out of poverty, but it has positive health and social consequences. Being out of work may be considered one of the major public health challenges in Western society; it carries the same health risk as a heavy smoker and is as dangerous as many high risk occupations".
He adds," 80% of people who have been out of work for six months or more will never return to work so early intervention is important: many common health problems can be then managed so that long term incapacity is not inevitable. I would encourage doctors to consider a return to work, whenever possible, as one of the main treatment goals’.
Senator Paul Routier, Social Security Minister, commented, "The States recently set out a Social Policy Framework for Jersey which includes the principle of promoting independence. Work has proved to be, not just the best way to help someone out of poverty, but important for the social structure of our lives.
Senator Routier continued, "Income Support will be a significant change to our benefit system, so where someone has an ongoing health problem or disability it is important that my Department, together with doctors, health care professionals and employers work closely together to help that individual remain in work or return to work at the earliest time possible".
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