Work is about more than finding a job

It involves navigating change, uncertainty, relationships, expectations and different power dynamics, while maintaining your wellbeing and a sense of who you are.

For people who have been out of work for some time, are beginning their employment journey or returning after a period away, moving towards work can feel particularly challenging. Even once we are in work, many of us can struggle to manage stress, communicate our needs, maintain boundaries or feel confident about where we are heading.

Heads Up! Work Ready builds on our experience of delivering Heads Up! with people experiencing long-term unemployment. It keeps the accessible, evidence-based psychology at the heart of Heads Up!, while applying it directly to the journey towards work, learning and volunteering, and to the realities of working life.