Welcome to Work Well

Do you need support, advice, guidance and coaching to stay and thrive in work or get back to work?

Recently out of work due to your health?

On sick leave and need support or confidence to get back on track?

Are you ready to make a change?

Does your health make work a challenge?

WorkWell can help.

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (CIOS) is one of 15 areas to pilot a new service called WorkWell. WorkWell is a joint scheme from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

The aim of WorkWell is to connect people with health conditions and/or disabilities to local support services so they can get the tailored help they need to stay in or return to work.

WorkWell is an early-intervention work and health assessment and provision of light touch, low-intensity support service. It will provide tailored support helping individuals to address their work and health needs, and to overcome barriers to work. People will be able to access general help, support, information, guidance and connections to services via the telephone and can receive additional face to face work and health coaching if required.

It is a prevention service aimed to support those most recently out of work due to sickness to return to work, or those in work who are at risk of being signed off sick.

To be eligible for WorkWell, people must be aged over 16; with the right to work in the UK; a CIOS address for either their home, their GP, or their local job centre; and a health-related barrier to work which means that they are either:

1.  in-work, and either off sick or struggling in the workplace due to a health condition; or
2. recently out-of-work, and requiring health related support to move into sustainable employment.

A ‘health related barrier’ includes anyone with a health condition or disability, including mental health conditions.

How do I refer to the service?