Polly Dawe
Occupational Therapist
The Challenge
Many adults with intellectual disabilities and / or mental health needs (especially with significant behaviours that challenge and high care needs) have limited opportunities to engage with a genuine productive and helpful work role.
The Change
Firstly to challenge peoples' (employees of organisation, families and wider MDT) beliefs about what the people we support can achieve with the right type of structured support and then secondly to identify useful jobs people could be offered.
The Impact
Growing volunteer job role within the organisation
• daily jobs at allotment
• office based tasks such shredding, preparing training handouts
• service wide skip run on a weekly basis
• weekly health and safety checks
• interviewing
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