Mental Health and Welfare Benefits
Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day
This course will provide workers who support or assess mental health service users with a robust, up-to-date knowledge of the benefits system.
Course contains
- The range of available benefits
- Establishing 'incapacity for work' and coping with refusal, revisions and discrimination
- Dealing with Jobcentre Plus
- Useful resources
- Recent case law decisions
- Making decisions for long-term mental health
- Good practice issues.
Suitable for
Workers in mental health services who have regular contact with clients claiming benefits. Some working knowledge of the benefits system would be useful, but is not essential.
