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NHS Returners
Supporting people returning after illness, disability, caring responsibilities or career interruption.
Proposed pilot application
The Right Work for You
The Right Work for You is an evidence-informed workforce inclusion and progression approach for organisations. It helps people recognise and evidence capability developed across employment, self-employment, caring, education, disability, health-related interruption, community participation and lived experience. Powered by the Contextual Capability Framework.
The central question
Recruitment and progression systems tend to ask whether someone can currently do a role as it is presently designed. The Right Work for You asks a different question — one that makes capability visible alongside the conditions, adjustments and patterns under which it is reliably available.
Pathways
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Supporting people returning after illness, disability, caring responsibilities or career interruption.
Proposed pilot application
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Recognising capability that fluctuates, and the conditions and adjustments under which it is reliably available.
Proposed pilot application
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Making visible decades of capability built across employment, self-employment, caring and community roles.
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Evidencing capability developed outside formal employment and qualifications, and the support that sustains it.
The workforce problem
How it works
Participants are guided through a structured process that helps them recognise, articulate and evidence capability developed across work and life. The journey also identifies the conditions that enable sustainable contribution and supports realistic next-step planning.
Participants identify transferable capability developed across work, self-employment, caring, education, community roles and lived experience.
Concrete examples and artefacts are chosen and worded by the person, ready for progression and workplace conversations.
The adjustments, patterns and environments under which capability is reliably available are made explicit.
Reflection supports realistic next-step planning that respects the person’s circumstances and ambitions.
The output
The participant receives a practical, person-owned profile that can support reflection, development and better-quality workplace or progression conversations. The detailed profile structure and methodology are available only through a private demonstration.
The Contextual Capability framework, assessment methodology and supporting materials are proprietary intellectual property of Dr Julie Winstanley.
Delivery
The person works through the journey independently at their own pace.
A trained supporter or practitioner works alongside the person.
Independent work combined with scheduled supported sessions or group work.
Ethics
Access
Pilots
These are potential outcomes to be tested through pilot work and independent evaluation. They are not claims of demonstrated effect.
Commissioning
Scope and limits
The platform does not determine fitness for work, benefit entitlement, regulated professional competence or suitability for a particular role. It is not a clinical tool, an assessment of health, or a decision-making system.
For NHS returners, The Right Work for You complements rather than replaces formal professional return-to-practice requirements, regulatory processes and employer recruitment decisions.
The Right Work for You is an innovation in development. It is not clinically validated, commissioned, NHS-approved or proven.
Demonstration
The working prototype is not publicly available. A secure demonstration link is issued by invitation only, to named individuals, for a limited period.
Demonstration link: issued on request — invitation only
Enquiry
The Right Work for You is a Living Well Partners innovation developed by Dr Julie Winstanley.