Employability Training for Health Professionals

For most people being in work is better for long term health than being unemployed, and that unemployment can severely damage health in the long term.

The review of the Healthy Working Lives Strategy, Health Works (December 2009), by the Scottish Government actions the NHS to ensure work is part of patient care plans. It identifies the need for effective linkages between health and employability services locally to help support people with health barriers to remain in or return to work.

As part of this a Health & Employability Training Pack has been created.  The aim of the training is to raise awareness of the links between health and employability and to explore with healthcare staff ways of incorporating this into practice for the benefit of their patients/clients and to promote employability as a health improvement topic.

The training will be promoted by NHS Education Scotland and available here, for those areas that wish to host the training themselves.