ACPOHE/DisAbility webinar: Access To Work and other options
The third of our ACPOHE/DisAbility webinars will be about "Access To Work and other available options". The webinar will be co-hosted by Sarah Marshall, Disability Services Advocacy manager, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Disability Services Advocacy team, Ken Lawton Advocate within the DWP Disability Services Advocacy Team, with Angela Webster, ACPOHE member and Greet Janssens, DisAbility co-chair.
About our speakers and chairs:
Sarah Marshall joined the DWP in 2016 as a Work Coach based in a JobCentre in Leeds supporting customer to find employment or training opportunities. Sarah then moved over to Access to Work as a Case Manager when she stayed for 4 years. In 2021 Sarah was promoted and joined the Disability Services Advocacy Team. Sarah's role involves building relationships with internal and external stakeholders and offer upskilling and awareness sessions on all Disability Services benefits and grants. The team is very small of only 5 Advocacy Managers who cover the whole of England, Scotland and Wales.
Ken Lawton has worked for the DWP since 2012 and has worked within Employment and Support Allowance as a Complex Decision Maker before moving on to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) where he was a Case Manager and worked on PIP customer insight and partnership within the local community.
Since 2019 working with the new Disability Services Advocacy Team he acts as an advocate for their benefits and grants with both internal DWP colleagues and their external partners and stakeholders which he says is an amazing experience. He works specifically with complex cases and within the Veteran Community. He is passionate about developing a better understanding of their benefits and listening to where they can improve their services; with the ultimate aim of supporting their customers and those working with them.
Angela Webster is a specialist Musculoskeletal and Occupational Health Physiotherapist, with advanced level membership of MACP and ACPOHE. Angela graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 1993 and completed her MSc in neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation at UCL in 1999.
Angela has held senior leadership roles in Musculoskeletal Health and Occupational Health, in the NHS and industry, working closing within and across multidisciplinary teams. She's been involved in quantitative and qualitative research including workplace health and wellbeing, risk factors for sickness absence, participatory ergonomics and work based condition management approaches to enhance function, productivity and quality of life.
Inclusion and belonging run at the heart of Angela's leadership and wellbeing strategies. During the pandemic Angela lead TfL's 'Out of Sight but not out of Mind' physical and mental wellbeing programme and a Long Covid MDT Rehab and Support programme.
Angela founded Joint Works in 2023 to help London and Kent businesses provide a joined up approach to work and musculoskeletal health.
Greet Janssens graduated in Belgium with a BSC Physiotherapy in 1998 and then worked in private practice for 10 years, sharpening her interest and skills in respiratory physiotherapy with children and adults, alongside neuro development. Following Greet's move to the UK in 2008, she followed her passion in children’s physiotherapy.
In November 2019, Greet had a stroke in the medulla oblongata, affecting mobility and causing chronic pain in the left side of her body. After returning to children’s physiotherapy, Greet realised how important it is to empathise with patients and families, particularly where neurological events changed their lives at birth or throughout their young lives.
Greet's hearing impairment, along with the newer disability, means that she can contribute to the quality of newly qualified physiotherapists with a different ability and to those aspiring to become a physiotherapist. Becoming a convenor with the CSP DisAbility network is helping Greet make a difference to the educational, access and application experience, seeking a balance with prospective employers towards reasonable adjustments.
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