Employment Support

Employ-Ability is a charity that is working together with West Essex MIND to deliver the Talking Therapies Service across West Essex. Our role is to offer support when your current mental health problems make finding, keeping or functioning effectively at work difficult.

How we work and what we offer

Where there are difficulties around finding employment or other related activity such as voluntary work or training, we will meet* and work out an action plan together that will help you achieve your goals. A key part of this is working together, on building confidence and taking some practical steps to move forward. These steps might include:

• Producing or updating CV's
• Career review
• Search for suitable training and options on funding
• Providing advice on benefits, debt or other practical problems
• Identification of suitable voluntary options, often as a first step to paid work
• Job search, including completion of job applications and interview practice

Where the difficulties are impacting on, or caused by, your work, then we will work with you to decide on best actions:

• With your permission we can write to your employer and advocate directly on your behalf to address specific issues.
• We can look at strategies that you can use to help yourself in the workplace, or with related issues that are adding to your stress.
• We can provide and/or access specific advice on workplace related legal queries.
• We can provide job search support as above if you want to change career.

* For clients already in employment, appointments can be given outside of normal office hours to suit. We will seek suitable venues as close as possible to your home.