Mediation Training Opportunity - Yorkshire

Roger Butterworth (Consultant OT) has informed me that he has this course running on December 9th and 10th 2009.

Mediation Skills for Job Retention and Case Management

This training will take mediation skills and place them in the context of job retention and case management. There will be a focus on resolving conflict between vulnerable employees and their employer (or immediate line manager).

The course is intended for participants who have already attended the 2 day “Job Retention Case Management” programme facilitated by Dave Costello and Roger Butterworth, or who have experience of working in the field of Mental Health job retention/case management.

Participants may have a background in Mental Health, Vocational Rehabilitation, Occupational Health, Human Resources or job retention. It should appeal to anyone who wishes to feel more confident in facilitating conflicting needs and difficult conversations.

This course is experiential, drawing on your own history and working with actors to create a “live” opportunity for skills practice.

Enquiries: Ruth Shakespeare ruth.shakespeare@midyorks.nhs.uk

Tel: 07912 775305

Cost: £199 incl refreshments and lunch

Jain

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Hoping to have posted this.
Carol

Fit for Work Pilot Success

I understand that Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and North Staffordshire has been successful in being chosen as one of the pilot sites for Dame Carol Black's Fit For Work services.

If anyone has more information they can now share about what's happening in Nottingham, I for one would love to hear about it!

If you don't know about Fit For Work here's a link

Jain

Case Study

I have emailed the VR Trent OT's the case study I talked about at he last study morning (I haven't figured out how to dump it into the blog yet...) If you have received the case study and you wanted to ask questions, make comments etc. then just press the "comments" button with the little pencil next to it on this posting and type in your text.

I look forward to your edifications...

Jain

COTSS Work regional study day - today

Thanks to Carol for all your hard work organising this useful event. We have all had a great time and stuff to go away and think about.

Workshop - 6th October 2009

WORKSHOP

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

Date: Tuesday 6^th October 2009

Time: 9.00am – 1.00pm

Location: SPAN Vocational Services (Notts. Healthcare Trust)

Foster Drive, Mansfield Rd, Sherwood, Nottingham NG5 3FL

PROGRAMME

9.00-9.30 Coffee/Introduction/Housekeeping

9.30 -10.00 Jain Holmes , Clinical Director, The Workplace Health Partnership

Jain will explain how The Workplace Health Partnership is using Occupational Therapy as the driving force and discovering how OTs can work with companies to facilitate job retention. Using a case study of a young man who has a new diagnosis of bi-polar disorder she will illustrate how OT can lead vocational rehabilitation.

10.00 – 10.30 Jane Terry, OT, Community Stroke Team, Nottingham City PCT

Jane will talk about her role as a ‘diffusion fellow’ in return to work after stroke research (as part of the Nottingham CLAHRC study; Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care). The aim is for a diffusion fellow to help implement the research findings into clinical practice.

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee/Tea

10.45 - 11.15 Leigh Cordery, OT, Support into Work Team, Nottingham PCT

The Support into Work Team provides a vocational rehabilitation service to help workers overcome or manage the impact of health conditions while they are working, or whose health problems are stopping them returning to work. It is available to any adult with a health problem who has a GP in Nottingham

11.15 – 12.00 Carol Coole, Julie Phillips, Research Occupational Therapists, University of Nottingham

Carol and Julie will lead a session reviewing vocational outcome measures. Who wants them and why; the problems associated with measuring work; what makes a ‘good’ outcome measure.

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch and chat!

· This workshop is open to all Occupational Therapists. The aim is to share information about what OTs are doing in vocational rehabilitation locally, and to find out what OTs feel they need or would like in terms of networking, information, support, training etc. Please forward the details to anyone you feel may be interested.

· There is no charge, and lunch/hot drinks will be provided. There is free parking available on site. SPAN is an education, training and employment centre for people recovering from mental health difficulties. They share a site with The Cedars and Headway House. Take the Foster Drive turning. You will see large sign boards outside the gates on the Mansfield Road. If you are coming from Sherwood there is a large sign saying Rehabilitation Unit.

· Places are limited to 25 and will be reserved on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to book a place, or would like further information please contact Carol Coole at carolyn.coole@nottingham.ac.uk or on 0115 8230247. Please leave your name, contact details and any special requirements, including diet.

Welcome Notice

Hi there and welcome to the COTSS Work Trent Regional blog.

If you are an Occupational Therapist you can join this blog and get regular updates about the group by subscribing to the RSS feed - then instead of having to make an effort to visit us, we'll just send updates to your email address. Cool eh!

Don't worry if you are new to blogging it's really just like a website - but you can interact with us by making comments on the "posts" we make. We'll tell you about interesting stuff that might be happening in the region, events we'll organise and other interesting stuff too.

If you are a member of COTSS Work we will be able to invite you to join the blog and you will be able to post stuff here too. The Regional Rep will have your email contacts and we'll be able to organise an invite. So, if you haven't been invited yet let us know.

Anyway that's enough for now. See you later.