Why are certain Employment Support skills important?

• Authors: David Imber

Title variants

PL

Dlaczego niektóre umiejętności wspierania zatrudnienia są ważne?

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

An number of factors influence how and whether disable or disadvantaged people are supported to find, win and keep jobs. They include the policy and legislative con-text, the programmes provided by government, NGOs and insurers, individuals’ impa-irment, medical and clinical condition, their skills and employment-competencies. Each of these are of interest and can be influenced in some degree, with the aim of improving the employment opportunities of disabled people. Finding the optimum ‘design’ or ‘intervention’ in each of these areas attracts much activity. However, con-sideration of evidence and the logic of personal interventions to support people into work suggests that improving the skills of personal employment advisors would be equally if not more effective. This paper sets out the rationale for deciding which skills are likely to be useful to personal employment advisors and their clients, and summarises results of internatio-nal trials of a skill development programme.

PL

Wiele czynników wpływa na możliwość zdobycia i utrzymania pracy przez osoby niepeł-nosprawne czy ze specjalnymi potrzebami. Obejmują one kontekst polityczny i legislacyj-ny, programy dostarczane przez organizacje rządowe, pozarządowe i firmy ubezpiecze-niowe, stan medyczny i kliniczny, stopień upośledzenia tych osób, a także ich umiejętno-ści i kompetencje niezbędne do zatrudnienia. Każdy z tych przypadków jest interesujący, ponieważ może w pewnym stopniu wpływać na poprawę możliwości zatrudnienia osób niepełnosprawnych. Znalezienie optymalnego „wzoru” lub podjęcie „działań interwencyj-nych” w każdym z tych obszarów powoduje wzmożoną aktywnośc. Analiza dowodów sugeruje, że poprawa umiejętności osobistych doradców zawodowych będzie bardziej efektywnie i skutecznie wpływać na wspieranie osób poszukujących pracy. W artykule przedstawiono uzasadnienie dla wyboru umiejętności, które mogą być przydatne do pracy doradców osobistych i ich klientów, a także podsumowano wyniki międzynarodowych badań z programu rozwoju umiejętności.

Keywords

EN

skills; competencies; training programme; employment; disadvantaged/disabled people

PL

umiejętności; kompetencje; program szkolenia; zatrudnienie; osoby ze szczególnymi potrzebami/osoby niepełnosprawne

• Publisher: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji, Radom
• Journal: Edukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 1(80)
• Pages: 71-83

Dates

printed

2013-03-15

Contributors

author

David Imber

• Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants, Wielka Brytania

References

• Bandura A. (1997), Self Efficacy- The Exercise of Control. W H Freeman & Co.
• Berthoud R. (2006), The Employment Rates of Disabled People. University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research. Department for Work and Pensions.
• BSI. (2010), PAS 150 Providing Rehabilitation Services Code of Practice. British Stan-dards Institute.
• CESI. (n.d.), Promoting Social Inclusion in the Labour Market - Making Work Pay. Re-trieved August 2011, from Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion: http://www.cesi. org.uk/NewPolicy/policy_guides/making_work_pay_policy_guide
• Corden A., & Thornton P. (2002), Employment Programmes for Disabled People: Les-sons from research evaluations. HMSO.
• Eden D. & Aviram A. (1993), Self-efficacy training to speed re-employment: Helping people to help themselves. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 3, 352–360.
• Gabbe B., Cameron P., Williamson O., Edwards E., Graves S. & Richardson M.D., The relationship between compensable status and long-term patient outcomes following or-thopaedic trauma. Medical Journal of Australia, 187(1):14–17.
• Gallie D. & Paugan S. (2000), Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Graham V., Jutlas S., Higginson D., & Wells A., (2008), The added value of Motivational Interviewing within employment assessments. Journal of Occupational Psychology, Em-plyment and Disability, vol. 10, No 1/52.
• Hasluck C. & Green A. (2007), What Works for Whom Research Report no 407. Department for Work and Pensions.
• Howell D. (2005), Fighting Unemployment, The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Imber D. & Wlodarcyk F. (2007), Mapping Effective Responses to Job Retention. Cardiff: Healthy Minds at Work.
• Lester S. (2012), Evaluation of the transfer of innovation and partner training trials. Taunton: TRAVORS2.
• Machin T. & Creed P. (1999), Changing Wonky Beliefs Training programme. Retrieved August 2011, from http://www.usq.edu.au/users/machin/cwb.htm
• Miller W. & Rodnick S. (1991), Motivational Interviewing. London: Guilford Press.
• Needels K. & Schmitz R. (2006), Economic and Social costs & benefits to employers of Retaining, Recruiting and Employing Disabled People.
• OECD (2010), Sickness, Disability and Work, Breaking the Barriers. OECD publishing.
• OECD (2004), Transforming Disability into Ability. OECD Publishing.
• Price R. & Vinokur A. (2011, August), The Jobs Project for the Unemployed. Retrieved August 2011, from http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/seh/mprc/jobsupdt.html
• Resnicow K., DiIorio C., Soet J., Borrelli B., Hecht J. & Ernst D. (2002). Motivational interviewing in health promotion: It sounds like something is changing. Health Psycho-logy, 21(5):444–451.
• Seebohm P. & Scott, J. (2004), ‘Addressing Disincentives to Work’. Social Enterprise Partnership.
• Simpson J. & Cunningham, S. (2005), Successful Job Search. Excerpta Medica then El-sevier Science, vol. 1282 pages, 1191–1194.
• Strauser D.R. (January 1995), Applications of self-efficacy theory in rehabilitation counselling. Rehabilitation.
• TRAVORS (2011, July), TRAVORS2. Retrieved August 2011, from Training in Vocational Rehabilitation Services: http://www.travors-2.eu/
• UKRC (2010), Rehabilitation Standards. London: UK Rehabilitation Council.
• VRA (2007), Vocational Rehabilitation Standards of Practice. London: Vocational Re-habilitation Association.
• Waddell D.G. & Burton D.K. (2006), Is Work Good for your Health and Wellbeing? The Stationery Office.

Identifiers

ISSN

1507-6563