VRA Standards Of Practice

2013 standards of practice

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The VRA represents all those involved in delivering vocational rehabilitation services. There are a number of professional groups including; Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Case Managers, Disability Employment Advisers, Job Centre Plus Personal Advisers and Employment Support workers.

At the VRA we are very much aware of the need to develop more vocational rehabilitation provision with an appropriately skilled workforce. We are keen to help and encourage Employers, the Human Resources and Occupational Health professions, to be more aware of; better understand the value of and engage in providing vocational rehabilitation.

News

Reflections on SMARTVR, our 2013 Conference

I am just coming ‘down to earth’ following another exceptionally successful VRA conference, this year held in Manchester. Yet again, this was superbly organised by Chris Parker and the Professional Development Committee. It was good to welcome visitors from Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Portugal and particularly to welcome two founding members of the VRA, Peter Davies and Judy Reading-Kitchen, in all about 140 delegates.

SMART VR: 2013 VRA Conference Presentations

Many of the presenters from our 2013 conference SMARTVR have kindly agreed to let us publish their presentations. Our thanks to them for this. Please do not distibute these but feel free to share the link to them on this website. if you would like to make use of the information or share them more widely then please contact the presenter direcly or via the VRA to gain permission.

Keynotes

Launch of the New 2013 Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics for VR Practitioners

On Monday 17 June, Dr Bill Gunnyeon CBE launched our 2013 Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics for VR Practitioners as part of his keynote session on transforming sickness absence at our SMARTVR conference. The standards have been regularly accessed not just from the UK but all over the world since the first edition was launched in 2007.

And the VR Award Winners are ...

We will be publishing features on many of our winners and finalists over the coming months for for now, here is the list of winners and finalists.

2013 VR Award Winners

Conference Sponsors

Our conference wouldn't be possible without the generosity of our sponsors and we extend our thanks to them. Please do support them.

Ways to Work

A future forum for occupational health: role of vocational rehabilitation

On a regular basis the VRA responds to consultations and other publications on behalf of its members. Details of one of our recent responses which has been published in Occupational Medicine is below.

A future forum for occupational health: role of vocational rehabilitation, Andrew Frank, Occupational Medicine 2013 63: 306-306

Employment Conversations: understanding the impact of cancer on work

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) exists to support people living with illness manage the impact of ill-health on work. But, there are few VR services to specifically support people with cancer with work-related issues. And, because there are so few services, we currently know very little about the benefits of VR for people with cancer.

Developing a European practitioner qualification: The TRAVORS2 project

This is an abstract from a piece by Stan Lester about the TRAVORS project. The full article can be read here.

Abstract