Working with partners to help people with health support needs find work   

The Project

Collaborate CIC has been a key partner, alongside PA Consulting and Mutual Ventures, in designing and delivering the Work Well National Support Team (NST) programme. The NST programme is working with fifteen WorkWell pilot areas across the country to harness and share learning from the innovative approaches being tested in each area. 

WorkWell is a Government programme establishing new and innovative approaches to helping people with disabilities or long term health conditions find and stay in work through holistic support.

Collaborate was chosen for our experience, knowledge and capability of testing innovative approaches, as a learning partner, with a specific focus on lived experience. Our extensive knowledge of working in places and systems on health and wellbeing, involving communities and the voluntary sector, has been pivotal.

We provided support for setting up the programme, and its governance and helped deliver the lived experience model. We facilitated the NST group, and learning and change network, and delivered toolkit content for pilots across the country. As part of our role we managed the relationship for four of the pilot areas, cascading learning from the other pilots. Collaborate was also very much at the heart of social value activities in the programme, and contributed to the development of maturity frameworks.

What our partners say

‘Working with Collaborate CIC has been a breath of fresh air. They were wholly committed to designing and delivering high quality support to the places involved in the pilots and using different approaches to capturing and sharing learning across the programme.  The Collaborate Team worked seamlessly with other partners as part of the National Support Team generating and contributing to new thinking and ideas. We would be keen to work with them again in the future.’

David White, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting

‘The Collaborate team have been great colleagues and partners on the WorkWell Programme. I’ve valued their perspectives and experience of how to make local partnerships work, and their clear commitment to ensuring the best possible outcomes for users.’

John Coops, Assistant Director, Mutual Ventures

From the team

‘At the heart of all the work we do, we focus on places, complex systems and working with them collaboratively to achieve better outcomes for people.  The Work Well Programme, with its holistic approach to individual needs provides a platform to support people in new and different ways.  We valued being a learning partner and supporting places to capture and share their learning in a supported environment.’ Rebecca Murphy, CEO, Collaborate CIC

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