Employment & Training
Being in employment is one of the key ways to stay mentally well. Work offers social contact, focus, stimulation, learning, satisfaction and of course financial rewards. If you have been out of work for a while or are having trouble coping with your job, it is easy to lose confidence, feel negative and have a low self-esteem.
Talk to your GP to find out how to get help and support to cope with your job or to get back to work.
Careers Management Future
This is a careers service company in East London. Careers Management Futures provides independent advice and guidance to young people and their parents/careers, as well as providing a service to schools, colleges, local employers and training suppliers. They also use their skills, knowledge and expertise to deliver specialist contracts to adults and other customers.
Tel: 020 8983 3535
To access the Careers Management Future website click here
Florid
Florid is a website run by mental health service users for people who have experienced mental health difficulties. It’s a website which aims to bring together information relating to mental health in a way that is user-friendly and simple. They also offer employment and training advice.
Go to www.florid.org.uk
In Work Support
Mind, the mental health charity, offers a support service helping people in Tower Hamlets and Newham to adjust to their work life. The service is confidential, one-to-one and ongoing. In Work Support can assist you when getting back to work stresses you or makes you feel anxious.
Call 020 7510 1081 or go to www.inworksupport.org.uk.
You can also download the In Work Support Tower Hamlets and Newham leaflet.
JAMI
JAMI's live skills and work readiness programme helps Jewish individuals with mental health issues to prepare for work and meet their goals.
Call 020 8458 2223 or go to www.jamiuk.org/index.cfm
Leonard Cheshire's Jobability
Provides information to people with a disability on how to access a wide variety of jobs and career advice. Companies advertising jobs on the site offer any disabled person, who fulfills the person specification, a guaranteed interview.
To access the website please click here
Rework
Support residents of Tower Hamlets, who have experienced mental health problems, find employment, either paid or unpaid. If you want to work, volunteer, get into action, or train in a particular skill, Rewark will try to make it possible.
Tel: 020 7537 7642
To access Rewark website please click here
Shaw Trust
The Shaw Trust is a national charity that provides training & employment services to people who are disadvantaged in the labour market area via:
A Personal Advisory Service: providing support and advice to access paid work, one to one job support, work placements, work tasters, Asian women's project, and support & advice to employers
Working Support: targeting young people with learning disabilities, providing support and training on the job. Support is also offered to employers
Breaking Ground providing gardening and grounds maintenance work experience leading to nationally recognised vocational qualification in hoticulture
Tel: 020 8503 1796
To access the Shaw Trust website click here
University of East London
Provides a variety of degree courses to a diverse student body. The University has specific programmes designed to cater to mental health needs. The Disability service offers support to disabled students study aids and strategy assesments. Widening Access Service gives pre-entry advice to mature students wishing to consider Higher Education.
Tel: 020 8223 3000
To access the University of East London website click here
Weavers Community Trust
The Weavers Community Trust offers a range of services for the local community such as ICT training, jobsearch, interview skills and CV preparation, acitivities for women, youth club, summer playschemes etc.
Tel: 020 7739 9508
Weavers Restaurant Trust
This is a beautifully painted place to eat great food at good prices. Weavers Restaurant Trust run a 'Learning to Earning' training scheme with courses to help young people and people with disabilities to gain new skills and get work in catering like a hotel, cafe or restaurant. These courses cover: food hygene, building confidence, presenting yourself, hospitality, writing your CV and interview skills.
Tel: 020 7613 3694
Working Well Trust
The Working Well Trust offers a range of vocational training projects, set within small businesses for people with mental health support needs. Support into open employment including direct work with employers through the Workplace project.
Tel: 020 7613 0045
To access the Working Well Trust website click here