Job coaches for mentally ill in hospital settings - BBC

Every jobcentre has a disability employment advisor as all public sector institutions have to have a named individual responsible for ensuring the statutory public sector equality and disability duty is exercised. It is not in the JCs. Disabled UC claimants are being abused, harassed and bullied and it is unlawful. Anyway, this individual is useless and is not an advocate for us. We are referred to them by our work coaches and they tell the work coach that we need to see the consultants, have diagnosis, start treatments, have therapies, counselling, have the surgeries, need the access to work equipment, and an array of things we are waiting for and can't access due to severe backlogs, i.e., exactly what we told the work coach.

Coaching involves supporting people for their betterment, the role implies a need for empathy. JC work coaches are bullies who just put pressure on you. I can't see mental health workers being of any use as their roles will be belittled as is the role of the disability employment advisers in the JCs. The problem is, their role will be to get everyone off benefits fast. Their role should be to get people with MH issues, confident enough to pursue work and when they get it, maintain it and continue support in it.

As I have mentioned before, these specialist services should be conducted by the charities, many of whom have links with the unions, industry, academics in universities who are specialists in these areas and could provide brilliant solutions, and health professionals who know exactly what is what. Also MH people should be consulted at every stage as well as to what provisions they believe would be better for them and the issues they have faced when in work, or looking with work. But of course, they are not.

Despite Kate, Wills and Harry's attempts to destigmatise MH, the problem still exists.

Support for the MH should not be provided by private companies run by individuals who are best mates with ministers and out to line their pockets whilst seemingly doing good for the social fund.

Re the Conservatives, as someone mentioned above, Jenrick in bleating on about lowering disability benefits and alluding to the myth disabled people as social security scroungers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kjl8e0237o

What an odious man!

Back in the day when I use to sign on, they were responsible for helping the disabled get into work and all disabled claimants were under them and they had more sympathy than the generic work coaches we are all thrust upon these days. Yes, they too were nasty bullies but not of the scale of the present day work coaches.

All who have never had an interview with a work coach have been blessed.

My point is, I wouldn't trust anyone working in the JC, no matter what fancy title they are given.

What does it state in the uc pls yh makes sense what your saying is there anything we can do ?

@Catherine21 You asked what can we do. We can get on our knees and pray to Almighty God that all the policy and decision makers and those who they hold nearest and dearest get the worst forms of physical and mental illnesses so they too can understand how difficult it is for us to cope, let alone to work when in this state and how compounded the horrendous experience is when we are being constantly bombarded with demands to search for work, work or work even more. It seems a cruel prayer, but because they refuse to show an iota compassion, compunction, are lacking in humanity and understanding, and aren't even consulting us or the charities that support and advocate for us and all who suffer from our all our individual illnesses, I can't see another way forward.

I remember seeing her in parliament one time (i think it was when Reeves announced winter fuel cut), and the expression on her face was just...off. I can't explain it, but I just found her really unsettling. And it seems like I had good reason to.

Because labour will definitely do the same they want most off by 2028 2029

Legal challenges are costly, slow and exhausting and can adversely impact both the physical and mental welling of the complainant and only usually help the individual complainant that has the means to make the claim.

Every second of every working hour a Jobcentre is open, and it's 9-6 Mondays to Saturdays for many JCs these days, someone's human rights or disability rights is being violated.

@WhatThe I had a nicely lady disability employment advisor and she was really nice as she asked me what I preferred to be called and I'd told her and she'd started calling me by my preferred name. She explained everything to me so that I could understand what she was saying.