Services
Vocational and Occupational Consultative Services
mjh consultancy has been providing advice to individuals and businesses for over 8 years
to support job retention and return to work and promote healthy business and management
practices. Consultative assistance is provided through on-site visits, telephone support,
publications and educational outreach. mjh consultancy offers a variety of programme
design options and pricing formats.
We will provide a preliminary price quotation based on your unique needs.
Services we provide:
- Assessment of current sickness management and return to work policies.
- Advice on improving healthy working practices.
- Risk assessments.
- Assessment of work tasks and the work environment.
- Advice on useful changes in the workplace and job tasks to help with return to work and job retention.
- Advice on low cost adjustments to help employees remain in work.
- Advice on sustainable return to work planning and development of individual plans.
- Educational awareness programmes related to healthy working and work spaces.
Contact Jain Holmes to discuss your requirements.
Occupational Therapy Case Management
mjh consultancy currently provides Occupational Therapy Case Management to a variety of customers.
Case Management Society of the UK defines case management as:
“A collaborative process which assesses, plans, implements, co-ordinates, monitors and
evaluates the options and services required to meet an individuals health, care, educational
and employment needs, using communication and available resources to promote quality
cost effective outcomes.”
Occupational Therapy Case Management is provided by qualified Occupational Therapists who
are registered with the Health
Professions Council.
Recovering from a complex injury or illness can be an exhausting and confusing time and
a case manager is able to take some responsibility in co-ordinating rehabilitation and
return to work plans helping to support the individual, family and employer.
Services we provide:
- Individualised and client-centred assessments in the client’s home.
- Collaborative working to develop a specific action plan and rehabilitation programme with
goals to meet the client's needs.
- Liaise with therapists, doctors, employers, insurance companies, solicitors,
equipment suppliers and family members involved in the rehabilitation programme.
- Advocacy and support to the client and their family and the employer.
- Rehabilitation programmes that focus on development of independent living
involving statutory services wherever possible.
- Vocational rehabilitation programmes that focus on job retention for those who
might be struggling to stay at work, programmes focussing on return to work for those
who have been on sick leave and programmes focussing on starting work.
Contact Jain Holmes to discuss your requirements.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation is a topic of increasing popularity in the UK among businesses,
the government, the voluntary and charity sector, the insurance sector, the unions and
healthcare organisations. This increase in attention to facilitating people into work is
driven politically to reduce the heavy bill on the then Incapacity Benefit (soon to be
the Employment Support Allowance). The good news is that now the Government sees the
benefits of return to work rehabilitation and support in a renewed vision and so the push
is on again to revive vocational rehabilitation across the country in a contemporary framework.
Building Capacity for Work: A UK Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation (DWP 2004)
states that the DWP work ‘highlighted that the term vocational rehabilitation means different
things to different stakeholders.’ It defines vocational rehabilitation as:
“...a process to overcome the barriers an individual faces when accessing, remaining or
returning to work following injury, illness or impairment. This process includes the
procedures in place to support the individual and/or employer or others (e.g. family
and carers), including help to access vocational rehabilitation and to practically manage
the delivery of vocational rehabilitation.” (DWP 2004)
mjh consultancy has been providing vocational rehabilitation interventions for over 8
years to a range of clients. We can help those service users who are struggling to
stay at work or return to work due to ill health and disabilities.
Services we provide:
- Job matching to see how well the job and the individual come together
- Functional Capacity Evaluation using the Matheson method
- Work conditioning
- Work hardening
- Self-management techniques
- Job simulation
- Ergonomic advice on altering work tools, job tasks and job rotation
- Help with career decision-making
- Onward referral for
- interventions on skills in literacy, numeracy, etc. (specialist assistance for
dyslexia), personal skills in communication, social skills, etc.
- Practical work skills training
- Welfare rights advice
- Job searching and interview skills
Contact Jain Holmes to discuss your requirements.