Better Pathways has been supporting people in improving their mental health since 1963. We exist to help and inspire the people we work with to believe in themselves and to achieve their full potential. We do this through our education, training, volunteering and employment programmes and through our social enterprise.
Better Pathways is a charity supporting people with poor mental health, learning difficulties and with disabilities, on their pathway to recovery and well-being. We work with local care partners to ensure that those needing our support receive it when, where and how they need it. We provide a range of education, training, volunteering and employment opportunities to people in our local communities: across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull. We also deliver a therapeutic work programme through our packing and assembly social enterprise. We use a person-centred approach so that our clients are equal partners in the design, planning and delivery of the services they receive.
Our Social Enterprise: Better Assembly Services
At Better Assembly Services, we have a capable, reliable and efficient team based at our central Birmingham site in Digbeth. We have a long track record of delivering high quality services to upwards of 25 local customers, and some further afield. These are customers who have been with us for many years. We pack and assemble a wide range of products and can undertake light engineering work. Our work is competitively priced, and we can collect and deliver, undertake one off jobs, or enter long-term partnerships.
OUR EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT SERVICE:
The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service works with clients, from a range of backgrounds, on an individual basis to get them into competitive employment and to help them stay in work. This service embodies our ethos that employment, and the journey towards it, is central to wellbeing and to recovering from poor mental health.Our experienced employment specialists place the client’s needs and preferences at the centre of a jointly produced support plan, and they work with clients to find employment at a pace which works for them.
Employment specialists work with clients to set out an action plan which can include: access to training, work experience and education, and access to job preparation skills (e.g. interview, CV writing, career planning, etc.), benefits advice, as well as mental health services.’
