Job advisers to be embedded in GP surgeries as tens of thousands more sick and disabled people offered help into work
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/job-advisers-to-be-embedded-in-gp-surgeries-as-tens-of-thousands-more-sick-and-disabled-people-offered-help-into-work
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Like Careers officers from schools giving you any old crap advice to tick boxes
So they’re going to spy on the sick, and try to force them into work to make their underemployment numbers look better.
It’s not just securing work, it’s keeping it. The same UK Government that claims to be helping has [cut Access to Work grants](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl90ry2j7o) at the same time, a scheme which was very popular and effective.
They want to get disabled people into the workforce and off social security, but they seem fundamentally unwilling to make the kind of upfront investments that will allow people to actually transition. The strategy seems to me much more interested in the failed tactic of hiring “work coaches” to remind people they are unemployed, so the government can claim it has helped and it is the unemployed people who are failing.
That could be interesting. When I’m in my GP waiting room I’m on the edge of a catatonic, non-verbal panic attack requiring immediate use of beta-blockers to control.
You want to set me off with friendly chat and helpful advice? You aren’t trained for what happens next. The Dr can barely cope.
Ha. Yeah, who’s going to employ a 55 year old with multiple qualifications, who happens to use a stick, has hearing aids and is currently laid up with IBS, when there is a surplus of young healthy people out there who are still green enough to be fully exploited?
I mean, I know the cruelty is the point but the government won’t be happy until every quadriplegic is employed as a draught excluder. Or has an ‘assisted death’ because they are a useless eater… er… I mean ‘economically inactive’.
I agree with the idea behind this but I’ve seen in practice that those work coaches recruit clients to become work coaches in the same org which is a huge conflict of interest
If you are getting pip and other benefits, why would you work any job, lose some of these benefits for the same income?
there’s barely any jobs for people and the government want to take benefits? An evil world man, an evil world indeed…
Are these the same advisors who were going to go into mental health wards and rally people up into applying for jobs?
Great, a useless government that is doing very little to support disabled people back into work is trying to push the disabled into a job market that has no time or incentive to hire disabled people. Who’d have thought that after the Tories, we’d end up with another government that are completely removed from reality?
ELI5 behefits?
Never claimed, no one in my family has, don’t think any friends have. So I’m clueless.
How easy is it to just “get behefits”
Like if I wanted to stop working now and just leech, is that possible or is it just a lie spouted by people who don’t understand it either?
And this will do fuck all to actually help them find a job. Why would a company hire a disabled or sick person who will potentially have limited work capabilities and/or need time off more frequently.
This reminds me of when I was unemployed in ky youth and got put on a few long term unemployed’ courses to ‘help me find work’. I asked my job coach about my chances and he said “honestly after 6months of been unemployed for 6months my chances of getting an interview/job were slim to non but they had to find me something todo”.
Luckily I found a job myself by pure chance, but this like those courses is a just a way to make it look like the government is trying whilst likely spending more money than it will save.
People who got a bullshit job to tell other people to get a job, hilarious, the amount of wasted taxpayer money on this stupidity must be huge.
whats worse than the gov implementing this is a labour advisor appearing on GMTV arguing the case!
Unless employers are willing to hire disabled people, there is no point. Anyone with some form of disability knows that admitting to having a disability and needing accommodation is a one-way ticket to the reject pile for your application. I only have mental health issues (OCD) and I did not get any interviews until I took that off my applications. I was given some accommodation at work for a bit but then had it taken away when it no longer suited my manager, going against what occupational health said in the process. I have no trust in my employer (the NHS of all places) to treat disabled people with respect but know it is the same everywhere. Unless your disability is convenient to your employer, they are just going to ignore your application.
Employing people is increasingly expensive. There are reasonable employee rights, as there should be. This means employees can take extended time off sick, for parental and caring responsibilities etc. all of this makes companies less keen to offer employment, brutally machines are cheaper, more reliable, take a lot less management and are increasingly capable of working at the level of an unskilled human. All the advisors in the world aren’t going to create more jobs.
This has the potential to discourage people with chronic illness from seeking medical advice.
Given the current labour shortage and all the high paid, easy, low stress, roles sitting empty, this makes perfect sense and is in no way a straw clutching exercise.
Tbh I use a Dwp coach in my work with vulnerable families in all kinds of settings . She has been excellent helped with unclaimed entitled benefits too and got some of the parents esp the women back into training and work
I’m disabled and work part time. I use the access to work scheme to cover my travel via taxi ((currently £280 pcm). That’s more than I get in UC and as I get paid every 28 days, it means one month a year, I don’t get UC.
If my access to work was stopped, I’d have to give up work as I simply couldn’t afford the travel expenses on my own.
Ultimately welfare benefits should come with a requirement of a certain working contribution back to society.
This contribution should be very flexible and the government should offer a number of options themselves.
If a person cannot work full time or consistently or requires aid or requires frequent time off, it should not be an excuse to avoid contributing to their survival entirely.
The only way job advisers help put people into work is by creating jobs for job advisers
Remember that the new [GOV.UK](http://GOV.UK) logo cost over half a million pounds. All they really changed was the crown, the background, and a full stop.
Official records show contracts worth up to £850k for this “brand refresh”, with about £532k already spent. The government says it also covered accessibility work and updated guidelines, but still that’s a lot of money for what looks almost the same.
It’s wild how stuff like this barely makes the news, while politicians keep everyone arguing about immigrants, asylum seekers, benefit claimants, pensioners, and the homeless. The real waste and misplaced priorities are hiding in plain sight.
Ffs I’m my sons carer I’m a skilled worker, I want to work.
Soon as I tell any employer I’m a carer I’m rejected on the grounds I can only work a set day and I have an earning limit.
How bout the government make some kind of law regarding larger companies offering carers jobs?
Absolutely pointless if there’s no job for them to go to and no employer happy to accommodate them.
There needs to actually be jobs if you want people to be employed.
Ok doesn’t really solve the issue that the job vacancies aren’t really there to start with though,
“Son, you paralyzed? There’s always a farmer looking for a scarecrow.”
I’m sure there’s some people dicking about and claiming disability so they don’t have to work. I also think it’s probably a vanishingly small number in comparison to people who genuinely can’t work for one reason or another.
710,000 vacancies for over 1.7m currently unemployed.
80% of autistic adults aren’t in any employment despite wanting to be.
Less than 5% of people with learning disabilities are in paid employment.
But no, let’s rehash these shitty courses that once you have a CV written up, actually do nothing to get you into employment. Unless you are able to mask your disability, the chances are that an employer will always choose an able bodied person over a disabled person. It sucks – but it’s an unfortunate reality.
Give me some decent speedy NHS care that would get me into work. Yet.. I wait years for many of the treatments I need. Surgeries I find it takes 2-3 years
They can fuck off!
In theory, it sound decent if done right but it won’t. People who are sick tend to not want to worry about looking for job or worry about missing work. When I was really fucking ill a few years ago, I literally couldn’t move or do much. It happened on my week off but if i was at work that week and had to miss all of it because of it? Then some knob tries to contact me about getting more work whilst i am barely making it through the dya? They would get told to fuck off.
This is just punishing the ill and disabaled.
Could we also get something to encourage employers to actually employ disabled people?
At the end of the day you can create a highly motivated and trained cohort but if you don’t fix the supply issues that means nothing.
Maybe this should be a scheme offering *jobs* rather than refried advice.
Nothing about how there are less jobs than people looking for them? No? Typical Labour.
The UK government is embedding job advisers in GP surgeries to help over 40,000 sick and disabled people return to work by 2030. This program offers tailored support like interview coaching and aims to provide holistic help. While promising, its success will depend on the quality of advice and employer support. What do you think about combining healthcare and employment support?