1. Healthier Horizons Health &Work Programme 2009 - 2011

2. Better Care Better Health Better Life Health & Work Programme This programme aimed to: 1.Increase employment opportunities for socially excluded adults within the NHS, and promote the NHS as an Exemplar Employer of Socially Excluded Groups 2.Progress the NHS contribution to reducing regional worklessness - NHS as commissioner and provider of care 3.Develop a healthy NHS Workforce - the NHS as an Exemplar Employer

3. Better Care Better Health Better Life MAIN OUTCOMES: 1. NHS as an Exemplar Employer of Socially Excluded Groups Investment across the region in specialist supported employment, Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services for people with enduring mental health 8 sites operating resulting in 176 people moving into employment opportunities Quarterly regional network for supported employment practitioners working in Health and Social Care Project Search (Learning Disability Traineeships in the NHS) Dissemination Activity

4. Better Care Better Health Better Life Provide managers with the skills necessary to support staff with common mental health problems remain the workplace - support a ‘Beyond Blue’ training programme to 21 trusts, and YHIP Mental Health for Line Managers training to 10 trusts Employment and Mental Health training - funded by the SHA – 7 Trusts/Open your mind action learning sets Support NW organisations to be Mindful Employers – through support of the NW Mindful Employer Network hosted by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership, increase in signatories from 9 in 09 to 21 in ’11. Currently 34 trusts are Mindful Employer network members.

5. Better Care Better Health Better Life 2. NHS as commissioner and provider of care Support PCTs/GPs to address the worklessness agenda - GP Health and Work training to support the ‘electronic fit note’ in targeted hot- spots – Health Work and Wellbeing Coordinator Increase sub regional Local Employment Partnerships engagement- cancelled Identify levers and barriers and implement recommendations to support improved NHS commissioning and procurement around the worklessness agenda- cancelled Produced ‘Tackling work related worklessness’ with North West Public Health Observatory

6. Better Care Better Health Better Life 3. Developing a healthy NHS Workforce- NHS as an Exemplar Employer Boorman Review baseline survey completed by 46 trusts 10 e-WIN health, work & wellbeing case studies published E-WIN hot topic on Health and Work with a bank of resources 3 sub regional health and wellbeing networks formed, each held a minimum of 4 meetings, attended by 35 trusts in total Academic review of NW NHS Occupational Health Services National guidance/information distributed through networks.

7. Better Care Better Health Better Life Produced in conjunction with NWPHO ‘Creating Healthier Workplaces’, distributed to all trusts Case management support commissioned via Pathways CIC Supporting the implementation of ‘Healthy Staff, Better Care’ and NHS Health Improvement Framework with NHS OH providers and HR Health Innovation and Education Cluster research on stress and mental health needs Robertson Cooper interventions supported, 8 on Asset, 15 on Vector, and 23 on Resilience Train the Trainer

8. Better Care Better Health Better Life NEXT ACTIONS: NHS as an Exemplar Employer of Socially Excluded Groups Request NHS HR take positive action and link with supported employment Individual Placement and Support sites creating recruitment opportunities for this talent pool Investigate how supported employment for people with Learning Disabilities or Project Search model could work in your organisations For both of the above - provide Health and Work Team with a HR contact for our IPS / Project Search sites to liaise with

9. Better Care Better Health Better Life NHS Workforce- NHS as an Exemplar Employer 11/12 OH realignment focus working on 4 sub regional footprints supporting collaborative working Sickness absence target of 3.4% by March 2013 DH Health and Wellbeing Pathfinder Bid on developing a Workplace Mental Wellbeing Needs Assessment Lead Employers OH/HWB provision for Dr.s in training PCT Clusters OH/HWB provision for CCGs and CSOs 2012 for 2012, the Olympic Legacy and Public Health Responsibility Deal