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The right employment support can help you explore what you want from work, build confidence, overcome barriers, and find or keep a role that suits you.

The UOK Wellbeing Service can help adults in Brighton & Hove and East Sussex explore employment, education, and volunteering options. Southdown also provides specialist employment programmes for people who meet their eligibility criteria.

Visit the individual service section using the buttons above or by scrolling down the page to find out who the service is for and how to access it.
Work, education and volunteering

Work and Wellbeing

Brighton & Hove
East Sussex
West Sussex
One-to-one employment support for adults across Sussex who use mental health services and want to find, return to, or stay in paid work.

An Employment Specialist will work alongside you to understand your strengths, interests, and goals. Support can include job searching, applications, interviews, speaking with employers, and help once you begin work.

Referral routes differ depending on where you live.

  • Location: Across Sussex

  • Access: Referral routes vary by area

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Work, education and volunteering

Work in Mind

East Sussex
Employment support for adults living in East Sussex who are using Health in Mind, the local NHS Talking Therapies service.

Support can help you find or keep paid work, explore volunteering or work experience, and consider education, qualifications, or training.

Ask your Health in Mind practitioner or clinician about a referral.

  • Location: East Sussex

  • Access: Referral through Health in Mind

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Work, education and volunteering

Substance Misuse Employment Service

East Sussex
Specialist employment support for adults in East Sussex who are receiving structured treatment for drug or alcohol dependence through Change Grow Live.

Employment Specialists work alongside recovery teams to help people explore their strengths, find suitable paid work, and receive continued support after starting a job.

Speak to your Change Grow Live Recovery Worker about a referral.

  • Location: East Sussex

  • Access: Referral through Change Grow Live

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Work, education and volunteering

Connect to Work

East Sussex
Personalised employment support for adults in East Sussex who face barriers to finding or keeping work, including people experiencing mental health challenges or other complex circumstances.

Support is shaped around your goals and may include building confidence, preparing for work, finding suitable opportunities, and receiving help after you start a job.

Eligibility requirements apply.

  • Location: East Sussex

  • Access: Expression of interest and eligibility check

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Southdown gave me the space to be and do. Their Employment Support service and Wellbeing Centres are like a warm blanket. They feel like coming home. They saved my life.
  • Southdown client

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