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Employment Advisers in Talking Therapies Conference

Employment Advisers in Talking Therapies Conference
Birmingham City Football Club, Birmingham
Tue 7 Nov 2023

This exciting face-to-face conference provided Employment Advisers with a really valuable opportunity to network, share best practice and take away national updates. Over 160 people came together from across the country, to hear about pilot projects that are being trialed, strategising how to integrate with other services and gaining new practical skills.

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This unique conference was all about making new connections, sharing best practice and resolving concerns with other Employment Advisers from across the country who are all fulfilling a similar role.

For the first time since 2019, this was the prime opportunity to meet and mingle and hear from national leads to explore:

  •     Future plans for the Employment Adviser programme directly from key decision makers
  •     How data can improve outcomes and boost service success
  •     Inspiring services that are delivering effective integrated support within social care
  •     National developments in integrated NHS Talking Therapies and employment support
  •     Revolutionary approaches to helping clients retain and find employment
  •     How community mental health services and EAs can offer truly integrated care
  •     Fully utilising the Money Guiders programme and hear first-hand experiences of implementation


With thanks to our industry partner

SBK Healthcare would like to thank SilverCloud by Amwell for sponsoring this national networking forum.

Collaboration, making new connections and skill sharing

As momentum and awareness of the Employment Advisery Services in Talking Therapies increases, this conference shared a mixture of interactive presentations and open discussions. Divided into a morning plenary and afternoon workshops, it was a great opportunity to gain information on, not only the national picture, but also local good practice. Attendees had a choice of the following workshops:

  • Working with Long Term Health Conditions (LTHC)
  • Engaging with Job Centre Plus and Disability Employment Advisers
  • Engaging Potential Employers


9:00
Registration, networking and refreshments
9:30
Chair’s opening remarks
Kevin Jarman, Formerly Lead in EA NHS Taking Therapies, Formerly working in Joint Work & Health Unit
National update
9:40
Employment Advisers in NHS Talking Therapies
David Clark, Chair of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford, National Clinical and Informatics Advisor for the NHS Talking Therapies Programme, NHS England
9:55
Understanding the rollout of Employment Advisers in NHS Talking Therapies
Kevin Jarman, Formerly Lead in EA NHS Taking Therapies, Formerly working in Joint Work & Health Unit
Working with mental health services
10:20
Connecting with secondary care community mental healthcare services
Stephen Skinner, Service Development Lead for the Adult Mental Health Community Division, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
10:45
A collaboration between the Employment Adviser Team and the SilverCloud platform to build a digital pathway
Douglas Hiscock, Behavioural Health Lead, SilverCloud by Amwell Katy Cornish, Employment Service Project Manager, Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust
11:10
Question and answers with your speakers
11:25
Networking break
Accurate data collecting
11:40
Conducting effective data collection, analysis and evaluation to ensure robust measurement of service outcomes
  • Exploring why data is important, how it’s used and the impact of government development
  • Getting it right: how can we ensure quality?
  • Raising awareness, promoting use and encouraging engagement with evaluations
Nicola Moss, Analyst, Work and Health Analytical Division, DWP and DHSC Joint Work and Health Directorate and Anna Tudor, Analyst, Work and Health Analytical Division, DWP and DHSC Joint Work and Health Directorate
Increasing service provisions
12:05
Introducing the Future NHS platform (EA Hub): Supporting staff to connect, share and learn
Darren Clifford, Senior Employment Adviser, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Kimberley Braithwaite, Employment Adviser, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
12:30
Money Guider Programme: Incorporating money guidance into our work
Alison Pask, Relationship Manager, Money Guiders Programme, Money and Pensions Service, Shirley Gennery, Senior Employment Adviser, NHS York and Selby Talking Therapies, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Health NHS Foundation Trust and Annie Pickard, Employment Adviser, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Health Foundation Trust
12:55
End of morning panel: Questions and answers with your speakers
1:10
Networking lunch break
Interactive workshops: ‘What good looks like’
2:10
Choice of three workshops
  • Attendees can choose one of the following workshops for dedicated activity, feedback and questions where they can find out how to improve experience, outcomes and guidance.
2:10
Workshop 1: Working with Long Term Health Conditions (LTHC)
  • Furthering your clinical understanding of how LTHCs can lead to anxiety and depression
  • Strategies to improve initial engagement with customers diagnosed with LTHC’s
  • How can we ensure continuous engagement with customers with LTHC’s?
Maria Clifford, Acting Employment Team Manager and Employment Adviser, Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2:10
Workshop 2: Engaging with Job Centre Plus and Disability Employment Advisers
  • Exploring the positive customer outcomes of boosted relationships with Job Centre Plus: what we can offer and how that supports the team
  • How can we use the service more effectively with the job centres?
  • Case study example: How we built stronger connections with Disability Employment advisers (DEA
  • Joe Buchanan, Senior Employment and Retention Adviser, Wellbeing Suffolk, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Theresa O’Borne, Lead Disability Employment Adviser, Department for Work and Pensions
2:10
Workshop 3: Developing new ideas to engage employers
  • Exploring how existing services can engage with local employers, above the individual client casework
  • Sharing how employer engagement activity differs and why: how can services do it best and encouraging links across the country
  • Best practice in the room: Shared lessons learnt from the struggles and successes of engaging employers
Alison Campbell, Service Manager, Employment Advisors in IAPT Derbyshire, INGEUS UK
3:00
Workshop feedback and questions
  • Share your findings with your workshop leader and find out how to improve experience, outcomes, and guidance.
3:10
Networking break
Certificated in Assessing Vocation Achievements (CAVA)
3:30
Level 4 Qualification for Employment Advisers in Talking Therapies
  • Developing the Employment Advisers Qualification
  • SFJ Awarded Level 4 NHS Talking Therapies qualification: Retrospective accreditation and recognition of prior learning explored
  • What, why and how of assessing: within your occupational competency
Rebecca Dyson, Qualification Marker, Premier Partnership, Ajay Maisuria, Senior Employment Advisor, Vita Health Group, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Talking Therapies and Sarah Hattersley, Business Development Officer, SFJ Awards
Improving your wellbeing and boosting your development
3:55
Skills to ensure supportive and sustainable working
  • Recognising the challenges of your professional environment
  • Investigating practical approaches to improving your personal wellbeing
  • Exploring how we can support and motivate one another to ensure a collective wellbeing
Doreen Till, Employment Retention Team Manager, Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust
4:20
Question and answers with your speakers
4:30
Chair's closing remarks and close of conference

Kevin Jarman

Formerly Lead in EA NHS Taking Therapies
Formerly working in Joint Work & Health Unit

David Clark

Chair of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford
National Clinical and Informatics Advisor for the NHS Talking Therapies Programme, NHS England
Biography

Stephen Skinner

Service Development Lead for the Adult Mental Health Community Division
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Nicola Moss

Lead Clinical Psychologist, National Adult ADHD and ASD Psychology Service (NAAAPS)
Analyst, Work and Health Analytical Division

Anna Tudor

Analyst, Work and Health Analytical Division
Department for Work and Pensions
Biography

Darren Clifford

Senior Employment Adviser
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Kimberley Braithwaite

Employment Adviser
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Alison Pask

Relationship Manager, Money Guiders Programme
Money and Pensions Service
Biography

Shirley Gennery

Senior Employment Adviser
NHS York and Selby Talking Therapies, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Health Foundation Trust

Annie Pickard

Employment Adviser
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Health Foundation Trust

Maria Clifford

Acting Employment Team Manager and Employment Adviser
Lewisham NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Alison Campbell

Service Manager, Employment Advisors in IAPT Derbyshire
INGEUS UK

Rebecca Dyson

Qualifications Manager
Premier Partnership

Ajay Maisuria

Senior Employment Adviser
Vita Health Group, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Talking Therapies

Doreen Till

Employment Retention Team Manager
Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust

Douglas Hiscock

Senior Product Manager
SilverCloud at Amwell

Theresa O’Borne

Lead Disability Employment Adviser
Department for Work and Pensions

Sarah Hattersley

Business Development Officer
SFJ Awards

A one day conference dedicated to developing implementable skills

With over 160 attendees, this one day conference brought together a whole range of professionals for learning and networking.

Attendees included the following jobtitles:

  • Senior Employment Adviser
  • Employment Adviser
  • Employment Service Manager (East Berks)
  • Operational and Performance Manager
  • Employment and Recovery Operational Manager
  • Thrive IPS Operational Manager
  • Clinical & Operational Lead
  • Employment Support Officer
  • Employment Team Leader
  • Employment Support Coordinator
  • Deputy Senior Employment Advisor
  • Deputy senior Health Advisor
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Digital Team Lead
  • Head of Delivery - Access to Work Mental Health Support Service and Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies
  • Relationship Manager for EA in IAPT in NHS Midlands & East Sites
  • Executive Clinical Director
  • EA Programme Lead
  • iaptus Product Owner
  • Clinical Lead
  • Senior Employment Specialist
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Client Engagement Manager
  • Service Manager
  • Service Manager/Senior Employment Advisor
  • Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
  • Programme Manager
  • Team Manager
  • Deputy Supported Employment Manager
  • Employment Coaching Team Leader
  • Team Manager - Work in Mind (SEA)
  • Lead Senior Employment Specialist
  • Employment Advice Service Manager
  • Senior Employment Retention Advisor
  • SEA / Deputy team manager
  • UK Head of Customer Success
  • Employment Advisers in NHS Talking Therapies – Relationship Manager
  • Lead Disability Employment Advisor
  • Senior Social Researcher
  • Employment Retention Advisor
  • Mental Health Evidence Lead, Work and Health Analytical Division
  • Operational Research Analyst
  • Employment Advisor and IAPT Initiative Lead
  • Employment Service Project Manager
  • Steps2change IAPT Clinical Lead
  • Relationship Manager, Money Guiders Programme
  • Qualification Manager
  • Business Development Officer
  • Senior Product Manager
  • IAPT Employment Worker
  • Project Support Officer

From the following organisations:

  • Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney
  • Balance
  • Bath Talking Therapies
  • Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Healthy Minds
  • Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Cheshire West and Chester Council
  • Citizen Coaching and Counselling
  • City Health Care Partnership CIC
  • Croydon Talking Therapies
  • Devon Parternship NHS Trust
  • Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
  • East London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Every Turn
  • Everyturn Mental Health
  • Impact on Teesside
  • Ingeus
  • Joint Work and Health Unit
  • Joint Work Health Directorate
  • Lancashire Women
  • Leeds Mental Health Wellbeing Service
  • Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  • Living Well Consortium
  • LSCFT
  • Mayden
  • Mental Health Matters
  • Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
  • Mind in Brighton and Hove
  • NAVIGO
  • NELFT
  • NHS Gloucestershire Talking Therapies
  • NHS Merton Talking Therapies
  • NHS Sutton Talking Therapies
  • NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire
  • NHS Warrington Talking Therapies
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
  • Norfolk and Waveney NHS Talking Therapies
  • North East London NHS Foundation Trust
  • North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northpoint LMWS
  • Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies - Everyturn
  • Our Roots
  • Oxleas University NHS FT
  • PCMIS Health Technologies Ltd
  • Richmond Fellowship
  • Richmond NHS Talking Therapies
  • Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH)
  • Shaw Trust
  • Sheffield NHS Talking Therapies
  • Shropshire Council Enable
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
  • Southdown Housing Association
  • SSWLSTG NHS Mental Health Trust
  • Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Talking Therapies
  • Stoke and North Staffs NHS Talking Therapies
  • Swindon Talking Therapies
  • SWLSTG NHS Mental Health Trust
  • Total Wellbeing Luton
  • Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies - Mind in Tower Hamlets
  • Twining Enterprise
  • Vita Health Group
  • We are With You
  • Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney
  • Wellbeing Suffolk
  • Wiltshire Talking Therapies
  • WLNT
  • Work in Mind - Southdown / Health in Mind, East Sussex
  • Silvercloud by Amwell
  • Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust
  • DWP and DHSC Joint Work and Health Directorate
  • Employers, Health & Inclusive Employment Directorate
  • Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies Derbyshire, INGEUS UK
  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
  • Money and Pensions Service
  • NHS York and Selby Talking Therapies, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • Premier Partnership
  • SFJ awards
  • Vita Health Group, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Talking Therapies


Here are just some coments from attendees on the day

"Been a great and informative event and thoroughly enjoyed I and the hospitality. Would love to attend future events."
- Birmingham Healthy Minds
"Brilliant day for networking and making sure we all understand the objectives and goals of the initiative"
- Humber NHS Foundation Trust
"The day was very informative and great for networking and building working relationships on a wider geographical scale"
- Cheshire West and Chester Council
"Well organised, plenty of breaks and networking opportunities. Informative, Good positive energy"
- Croydon Talking Therapies
"Excellent. Well-paced and informative. Perfectly tailored to what we need day to day"
- Twining Enterprise
"Very inspirational, concise and informative. Good for networking"
- Blackpool Talking Therapy

With thanks to the conference sponsors

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Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:

Sarah Kemm

Contact: 01732 897788

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk

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