We like to be able to help people as soon as they need it. Our clinically-led and evidence based work support service is designed to enable individuals to self-manage their symptoms, remain in or return to work when ready. We focus on physical, cognitive, psychological and emotional components of illness.  We provide health coaching support with a strong vocational bias to help people restore their day-to-day functioning and quality of life and return to work when ready. We believe that good work is an important part of the recovery pathway and is an outcome that we work towards.

Long term conditions we manage include:

  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Respiratory Conditions
  • Chronic Pain
  • Mild to moderate mental health problems

  • Menopause
  • Diabetes
  • Neurological conditions
  • Heart conditions
  • Rheumatological conditions

We also provide Cancer, Long Covid and Stroke Work Support Services which can be found below.

Cancer Service
Long Covid Service
Stroke Service

  • "My health coach went above and beyond in helping me cope, very professional and genuinely supportive... Thank you so much."

    - User Feedback

  • "My experience with Working To Wellbeing has been a very positive one. My health coach, who has been working with me from the beginning of my illness, has been so incredibly supportive and empathetic. They provided me with the information, tools and confidence to make improvements to my health and eventually make a return to work. I really don't know how I would have managed without their help."

    - User Feedback

  • "I would like to thank my health coach and physiotherapist for their help and support in getting me through one of the most difficult and frustrating times of my life. Their experience and ability to listen to me and get me to see the positives, with little tweaks set me on and accelerated my journey to recovery... I'm convinced I would not have got to this point on my own."

    - User Feedback

  • "The help and support has been incredible and I feel that if this service was not available to me, I would have been in a worse situation... thank you... I couldn't have got through my journey without you."

    - User Feedback

What do we provide? 

Your claimant or employee will be referred to one of our specialist HCPC registered health coaches.  They will carry out a full biopsychosocial assessment with a focus on work to understand what the individual needs to help them to self manage their symptoms and return to work. You will be provided with a detailed report with our clinician’s recommendations for the support they believe will best support your employee or claimant to help them to return to work when ready.

 

Following the assessment the health coach will work with the individual over a period of time to coach them in such things as sleep, pain , fatigue management so that they can start to make changes to their life that will help them to start to recover and to manage their symptoms both in their personal and work lives.

 

We find that some people may just need a few sessions with our health coaches whilst others can be with us for 6 to 9 months. We offer an individualised approach as we know from our wealth of experience that a set programme doesn’t work for many people.

 

We are also able to step people into psychotherapeutic support if need be.

 

We will always discuss with you in advance how much time we predict will be needed and keep in regular contact with you as to the individual’s progress.  

We have supported nearly 800 people to remain in,
or return to work with or following long-term health conditions.

What is the goal of the service? 

To help people to recover, improve their day to day functioning and quality of life and support them with their return to work plans.   

Who is the service for? 

Long term condition work support is for anyone looking to remain in, or return to work that is struggling with a long term health condition. We focus on physical, cognitive and psychological symptoms and woven throughout our support is a focus on work and helping people to recover and return when possible. We have worked with a significant number of people with a range of symptoms and have large bank of knowledge to draw on when supporting people to recover and improve their functioning.

Do we help employers? 

Yes! We liaise with their employers and occupational health if needed and provide input beyond the first day at work to ensure that they remain at work for the long term.   We support line managers to implement return to work plans and help them to make reasonable adjustments for their employee.  

Who provides it? 

Our clinical team consist of Occupational Psychologists, Health Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists.  The clinical health coach may come from any of these professions.  We provide specialist training for all our clinical team to work as a clinical health coach and they also work as a team to support each individual person with expert skills to thrive again.  

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