Bouncing back

mrfoxy

Hello all,

I haven’t worked for over a year due to mental health conditions. I’m just wondering if I lost my job due to ill health but I eventually recover to some capacity. Will I be overlooked for jobs? 

I know there’s help from places like Remploy and IPES. I’m just wondering if this will be the end of work for me. I used to enjoy working until I got sick. 

Undervalued

mrfoxy said:

Hello all,

I haven’t worked for over a year due to mental health conditions. I’m just wondering if I lost my job due to ill health but I eventually recover to some capacity. Will I be overlooked for jobs? 

I know there’s help from places like Remploy and IPES. I’m just wondering if this will be the end of work for me. I used to enjoy working until I got sick. 

No, it shouldn't be. However it may not be as easy as one would hope.

As you mention there are organisations who specialise in helping people in your situation. The Richmond Fellowship, for example, may be able to help.

Jillanddy

It can often depend on your field of employment - and how you present your previous job loss and current situation. There are no hard and fast rules about this, and "it depends" would be appropriate as an answer. Perhaps if you explained more people could give more useful advice.

Sncjw

No body can say. Some employers are good some are bad. We can't say. 

But do everything you can that could help you.

mrfoxy

Jillanddy said:

It can often depend on your field of employment - and how you present your previous job loss and current situation. There are no hard and fast rules about this, and "it depends" would be appropriate as an answer. Perhaps if you explained more people could give more useful advice.

I could lose my current job due to ill health capability. But then I may be capable in the future or working. Maybe an office role or something more suitable when I’m better. 

Unless I go into detail with conditions?

MalMonroe

Hi, as suggested in your other thread, you could contact Acas and Citizens Advice.

I'd try Acas first because they are the employment specialists.  Contact details on this page - https://www.acas.org.uk/contact

JCS1

MalMonroe said:

Hi, as suggested in your other thread, you could contact Acas and Citizens Advice.

I'd try Acas first because they are the employment specialists.  Contact details on this page - https://www.acas.org.uk/contact

ACAS are not allowed to  give advice, they are an impartial service.

elsien

You don’t need to go into details.
But it will depend on any number of factors; age, field of work you are in, what the particular stressors are for you, qualifications and transferable skills - as for any career change,really.
Some companies wouldn’t look at you (sorry, but that’s the reality), others are more open and some value lived experience in their particular fields. 

It’s not impossible but it’s too early to know at the moment going by your other thread. 

mrfoxy

36 and I’ve only ever worked in retail. Though I do have some college education in A Levels English, Media and I’m very good with computers. I also have a an AVCE in ICT. I’d say I’m quite good with digital stuff. 

General_Grant

JCS1 said:

MalMonroe said:

Hi, as suggested in your other thread, you could contact Acas and Citizens Advice.

I'd try Acas first because they are the employment specialists.  Contact details on this page - https://www.acas.org.uk/contact

ACAS are not allowed to  give advice, they are an impartial service.

I've heard that said before.
It is strange that an organisation where the first word of its name is Advisory can't give advice - and yet on its website clearly does offer advice on employment matters. 
Giving informed Advice is not partisan if it is stating the law or providing its codes of practice.
Perhaps it could be said not to provide Guidance, which is a more directive approach compared with providing straightforward Information.

mrfoxy

elsien said:

Some companies wouldn’t look at you (sorry, but that’s the reality), others are more open and some value lived experience in their particular fields. 

It’s not impossible but it’s too early to know at the moment going by your other thread. 

Is this due to mental health conditions or due to the sickness record? What I’ve found is that the pandemic has been problematic in receiving treatment for said conditions, which has obviously made the time off I’ve had worse. Mental Health system is overloaded.