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"Helping me keep my job"

About: Adult Mental Health Community / IPS Future's Positive - County Adult Mental Health Community / Newark & Sherwood Local Mental Health Team (LMHT)

(as a service user),

I have been getting support from the Newark and Sherwood LMHT for a long time, Dr Innes has been really helpful to me and so has the duty team when I have been feeling really bad. I have also been getting support from the employment team, Ayshea, for a few months because my depression was so bad that I had to be off sick from work.

Ayshea has done a grand job of keeping in touch with me on a regular basis and understands that I can’t always answer my phone because I live somewhere with really poor signal! Ayshea has done an excellent job of helping me to understand things better, because things get too much for me and I forget things.

She has helped me make work more aware of my health conditions and understand how important it is for them to support me, and how they can do this. I am now back at work and some changes have been made to help me, which has helped my mental health.

I am getting discharged from employment help and I'm going to carry on doing my job for a while, but I am going to ask Ayshea to help me find a new job in a few months because I want a job to help other people who suffer with mental health.

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Response from Sangita Dhawan, Senior Employment Specialist, AMH, Future's Positive IPS Service, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 4 days ago
Sangita Dhawan
Senior Employment Specialist, AMH, Future's Positive IPS Service,
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

I manage a team of employment specialists which is attached to Mansfield, Ashfield and Newark& Sherwood LMHT. the service supports the service users to seek suitable job opportunities by offering intense support that is responsive to individuals' strenghts, skills abilities and percieved barriers and follows this with time unlimited on job support to help sustian employment. provides employment support, careers advise and guidance to the service users who are under the care of AMH.

Submitted on 10/10/2025 at 14:33
Published on Care Opinion at 14:33


Dear scorecardre97

Thank you for your feedback and sharing your experience of support from your local mental health team and employment support service. I am pleased that with Ayshea's regular support, you were able to return to work. I will pass on your kind comments to Newark & Sherwood mental health team and to Ayshea.

I hope your job continues to go well for you. I am also pleased to learn that as your future career goal, you feel inspired to support others who may be struggling with mental health issues. I wish you all the best with this endeavour and in your future.

Kind regards

Sangita Dhawan

Employment Lead

Futures Positive IPS

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