1. Community Partners Michael Redgrave Lead Community Partner ESES

2. Community Partners
East and South East Scotland will have 5 community partners;
2 Mental health partners
2 Young people partners
1 Pan disability partner

3. What will Community Partners do?
Support development of a comprehensive menu of local support for people with a health condition or disability,
Provide advice and support for DEAs by providing valuable insight into disability and the impact this can have on employment,
Identify local specialist provision to support people with a health condition or disability
Support engagement with employers and provide advice on access needs and Access to Work.
This is the official line from the Enhanced Support Offer
Not about only working with existing partners but finding new ones and using the CP’s work experience and lived knowledge of disabilities and long term conditions.

4. What will Community Partners do?
Provide expert and or lived knowledge and experience of health condition or disability
Take part in case conferences suggesting possible interventions
Support Employer Engagement staff to overcome barriers to engaging with employers
Use their expert knowledge and networks to enhance the roles of DEA’s, EA’s, WC’s and SEA’s

5. How do we do this?
Be visible, accessible and responsive, build awareness
Communication
Work collaboratively with; employers, DEA’s, SEA’s, Disability Confident, WC’s and providers
Sharing knowledge and good practice from CP’s through building a CP network
Learning and development support for staff
Support training
Enhance understanding of disabilities and health conditions
We need to be known to all the people with a vested interest in what we are doing and be accessible and responsive (this can involve supporting to find information and support for people) to the challenges and the needs of customers, employers and partner organizations.
We have WC’s in post and we need to ensure that we utilize and develop the skills and knowledge that we already have at our disposal
Build on the experience of customers

6. Community Partners – Will work across the District
Working with young disabled people developing – Support hubs and parents forums
Jobcentre
Build capability of Work Coaches to enhance the support for disabled people and those with a health condition
Work
Coaches
Jobcentre
Jobcentre
Providing disability insight by supporting case conferencing
District office
Jobcentre
Customers
Strengthen the District Provision Tool by identifying local provision and working with networks to create tailored support for customers
Strengthening disability understanding
Advising on Disability issues
Delivering training
DEA
Jobcentre EA
Partnership Teams
Working with Partnership Teams to increase awareness of disability issues & strengthen local knowledge
Develop District Mentoring Network
Working with SEAs and EAs to build employer disability knowledge on the law, adaptations and support
SEA

7. Community Partner Model
Mental Health Partner
Community Partner Model
Pan Disability Community Partner
Suggesting and Advising on the use of the Individual Support Fund (personal budgets)
Identifying Provision– working in the community to identify provision
Building Work Coach Capability
Up skilling & advising work coaches and DEAs
Advising on
Complex cases
Advising on the menu of local mental health support
Providing insight into the impacts disability can have on individuals and employability.
Mental Health Support Services –
Advising on Access to Work routes &
The use of case studies
Acting as a role model and providing a soft challenge
Building a better
Understanding
of Mental Health
Training & development – delivering ad hoc disability training sessions
Support for young
disabled people
Disability Confident – raising awareness of Disability Confident
Community link – identify support & advice on other provision
Developing
Tailored
provision
Providing in sight into disabilities
In work Support
Advising on in work programme
of mentoring
Changing claimant attitudes to employment
In work Support
Mental Health Buddy - mental health support service is in work support
Changing
Employer
attitudes
Access to Work – raising awareness, support & advice
Supporting the development of the Disability on line hub
Identifying Provision– working in the community to identify provision
Identifying learning pathways, work experience opportunities and support networks
Young Person’s Community Partner
Building a stronger employment - support
offer for Young disabled people
Building a network of support a package of support for young disabled people - working with the employers, LA, JCP, employers & the family

8. What does success look like?
DEAs have insight into how specific disabilities can affect claimants ability to move into employment
DEAs have an increased confidence to actively support Work Coaches and provide the necessary training
DEAs have the confidence to advise Work Coaches to action complex cases
Work Coaches have an increased knowledge of disability and the effects it can have on employment
Work Coach understanding of local provision is strengthened and they have the confidence to refer claimants to disability specific provision
Effective learning pathways, work experience and training opportunities developed for claimants
A network of District mentors developed to offer tailored coaching and advice
Increase in the number of joined up and tailored local provision to support claimants
Increase in the number of local organisations providing specific support and working with JCP
Community Partners National Network developed and actively sharing learning, best practice and information on service provision available
Small Employer Advisors are confident to engage with employers and put in place packages of support for employers and employees with a health condition or disability
Employers have a better understanding of disability issues and are offering more job opportunities