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Shift Review Panel: Staying in Employment, Mind
1st October 2008 at 15:40
Review by the Shift Review Panel
Originator: Mind
Type of product: Staying in employment or returning to work for people with
mental health needs.
Target audience: People who experience mental distress, or are living with a
mental health diagnosis, both those currently in employment and those seeking
to find employment or return to work. A secondary audience is employers and
those working in recruitment.
Publication status: Published March 2008
Format: Booklet – pocket size
Purpose:
- To provide information to people with experience of mental distress on how to stay in work or how to regain work when they feel well
- To provide employers and those in the employment/recruitment industry with a publication that they can give to employees who are experiencing mental distress.
The booklet Staying in Employment is published by Mind, and can be read online at the Mind website.
Printed copies can be ordered for £2.00 (plus 60p postage and packing) from Mind's Publications service. Telephone 0844 448 4448, or purchase online. Discounts are available on orders for more than four copies.
OVERALL ASSESSMENT
from the Shift Review Panel
This booklet is recommended as a valuable and easy-to-use guide for employees experiencing mental distress and wishing to remain in or return to work. Its format, layout, language and style make it very accessible.
It could also be a useful resource for employers to be able to give to employees who have mental health problems. For this audience, however, it might be over-long and it would help to be able to select relevant areas more easily through section headings and index.
The contents are factually correct and evidence based and covers not only the usual themes of mental health in the workplace, but also more personal information such as managing your finances, training, putting your CV together, self employment, and ways to look after your mental well being.
Altogether this is a highly practical resource (for example, there is a budgeting table at the back to record weekly/monthly income and expenditure).
Use the link below to download the full review.
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Documents and links in this resource
- Full review of Mind's Staying in Employment (shiftreviewpanel_mind_staying.doc)