The Our Place! Embracing Mental Health partnership is seven months old, and aims to improve mental health outcomes for people in the borough.
The partnership is offering Sutton based businesses support in the following:
• Help recruiting more unemployed people with mental health conditions into sustained employment within their organisation;
• To support Sutton workplaces to become 'healthy workplaces' in which employee wellbeing is taken seriously.
The partnership has created an Employment Pledge to start the conversation.
By simply signing the Employment Pledge employers will receive:
• a conversation with our dedicated Employment Engagement Officer to explore ways that they could help the employability of people with mental health issues.
• ongoing, reliable support for both new employees with mental health issues and for the employer.
• access to a scheme that allows them to trial employees so that employers only end up employing people they know can do the job.
• guidance in the many ways that they can help – the Embracing Mental Health partnership will find something that works for each business suitable to its size, needs and capacities. Examples include: work experience, work trials, mentoring and mock interviews to help people with enduring mental health issues into work for your business.
Get started and Embrace Mental Health!
For more information, and to sign The Employment Pledge complete the online form: link here.
To discuss this project and find out more about Our Place! - Embracing Mental Health in the workplace contact Will Shanks on 020 8770 6245 or email [email protected]