Employment help and advice if you are living with cancer
If you are living with cancer, The Christie, Shaw Trust Vocational Rehabilitation and Macmillan Cancer Support are working together in the Greater Manchester area to give you advice, guidance and support in your current job, or if you are looking for a new job.
If you need support with your current job, we can help you by providing reassurance, assistance and advice, and through courses such as our ‘Wellbeing in the Workplace’ course.
We can also work with you and your employer to advise on any adjustments they may need to make for you, to agree a graduated ‘return to work plan’ to suit you both, and to mediate where conflict may exist to ensure return to work plans are adhered to.
If you are looking for another job, it’s often difficult to know what else you could do for a job…we can look at the options with you and support you through a vocational pathway highlighting and supporting any training needed in order to transfer your skills to new employment.
Why Shaw Trust?
Shaw Trust are working with Macmillan Cancer Support and The Christie to offer an independent and impartial service delivered at no cost to you. Shaw Trust is a national organisation with established relationships with well known large employers and local expertise in employment and training, and all of our consultants are professional members of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association.
What will happen?
We will provide support in a way that best suits you, with options like telephone and face to face meetings. You will be allocated a local ‘Advisor’ who will advise you and focus on return to work activities to suit your abilities, including re-training for a new career if appropriate.As well as access to government funded programmes in your local area, Shaw Trust are equipped to offer ‘better off in work’ benefit calculations.
Call our advice Worker, Richard Hunt, on 0161 466 3000 or 07971 459103
or email Richard.Hunt@Christie.nhs.uk for free confidential support.
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