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Why instruct Doherty Stobbs to do this work? What makes us different?

As employment experts, Doherty Stobbs are able to extract the key information from the individual, the labour market and jobs to provide an impartial, objective and clear opinion on employment prospects and earnings.

Expert Witness reports 
For the legal profession in the area of employment, loss of earnings and occupational stress. The expert witness reports can cover re-training aptitude, vocational rehabilitation required, alternative careers, as well as residual and lost earnings. Reports provided for personal injury, medical negligence, matrimonial, unfair dismissal and criminal injuries cases. All expert witness reports are prepared by professions with experience of assisting disabled people return successfully to work.

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Assessment of retraining capacity 
We can provide a stand alone objective analysis of an individual's capacity to learn new skills.

Labour market research 
We can provide short labour market reports providing key, relevant and reliable information to assist with decision making, for example, level of earnings, opportunity within an employment sector.

Assessment of vocational rehabilitation needs 
following on from APIL & FOIL's best practice guidelines. Click here for details


Assisting people with disabilities return to work

Vocational rehabilitation services 
Assessing and identifying the services required to assist an individual return to work. This involves drawing up a return to work action plan and enabling the individual to progress. 
Click here for a description of what vocational rehabilitation is

Click here for a description of what can stop or delay Claimants successfully getting back to work

Rehabilitation counselling 
Providing counselling support to maximise an individual's capacity to move forward positively.

Careers advice and guidance 
Careers guidance and advice based on a thorough understanding of disability and disability employment.

Job retention 
This is for organisations who have a staff member with a recently acquired disability, when they cannot do their old job but want to keep working.  Interventions can include job re-design, new skills training, confidence boosting etc.

Training courses 
For solicitor's courses have included, 'what are the vocational rehabilitation services available for injured Claimants?', 'making sense of labour market information', 'psychology of loss and adaptation and its relation to mitigation', 'managing stress creatively'.

We are happy to consider bespoke in-house courses to suit your individual firm's requirements.

For further information about our rehabilitation services, please click here