NCSI VOCATIONALREHABILITATION PROJECT

Ed Murphy on behalf of Lyn Bruce, VR Project Manager )

July 2011

Vocational rehabilitation

Vocational Rehabilitation defined as ‘whatever helps someone with a health problem, to stay at, return to and remain in work’.

The pilot sites

Some key features of pilots

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Early findings

• Cancer patients want information about work early

• Health professionals give mixed messages

• Line managers often lack knowledge & skills to manage staff with cancer

• Cancer patients are unaware of their employment rights

• Expert VR advisers can predict & pre-empt problems patients are not yet aware of

2nd Interim Evaluation

• Lack of understanding of the term ‘Vocational Rehabilitation’ – Work support is seen as more appropriate or understandable

• Identification of VR advisor competencies

• Adoption of 3 level model• Importance of other professional

groups in providing work support e.g. cancer information centres, government employment advisors

Open access to information and

support

Active self-management

Specialist vocational

rehabilitationIncreasing ‘complexity of need’

National Cancer Survivorship Initiative

Work Support and VR through the three levels

Macmillan work and cancer resources

What will be the VR legacy?

• Critical success criteria in establishing VR/Work Support

• Competency profile for VR Adviser workforce• Guidance for commissioning of VR/Work Support• A VR services organisational development toolkit• Development of partnership working on

VR/Work Support across the four nations

Questions