Coaching with work and wellbeing
Scheduled maintenance
Due to essential system maintenance, our support service application forms will not be available from Monday 28 September until Thursday 15 October.
During this time please contact us via email at [email protected] to arrange an appointment.
Support with wellbeing and work
We understand how tough it can be to navigate the industry when you are disabled, neurodivergent, have a health issue, care for a loved one, or face other complex barriers. Sometimes you need advice or guidance about your personal and professional development from someone who will take time to listen, but also has industry and specialist knowledge to help you move things forward.
Our Work and Wellbeing advisers offer friendly, personalised, holistic and non-judgmental support to help you address the barriers and challenges you may be facing in your life and work.
This could include support with:
- Returning to work after a break due to illness
- Caring for loved ones and managing work-life balance
- Navigating the complex benefits system
- Accessing the right support for your health, neurodiversity, disability, or diversity needs
- Budgeting and financial guidance
- Career development
Our advisers can:
- Help to connect you with suitable industry organisations and peer support groups. This will help you to build your community, gain a sense of belonging and increase all-important opportunities for networking.
- Help identify additional benefits, grants, and statutory support you may be eligible for. They can also help you with the forms, such as the Personal Independence Payment form.
- Help you to prioritise your self-care and to find support and services that can help improve your wellbeing.
- Provide tips and useful advice to help you navigate challenges, such as improving your work-life balance.
- Help you to identify your career goals and what training and development you could access to improve your prospects.
- Helping with bursary applications for training, equipment, care costs, and more.
- Help you gain sustainable work if you are neurodivergent, disabled, a carer, or have a health issue. This includes support with Access to Work applications, identifying and communicating your access needs, and finding suitable grants, schemes, and programmes.
- Help you to manage your finances and create a workable budget plan.
These are just some of the areas we can support with - please get in touch to find out more.
- By talking to you and making sure we understand your situation, our advisers can ensure that support with wellbeing and work is tailored to you.
- Our advisers work in collaboration with you through regular telephone sessions (up to a maximum of six sessions) and email support.
- They will co-create a workable action plan with you to help break down your needs into realistic and achievable goals, signpost you to the support you need, and offer you guidance and support throughout.
The Film and TV Charity is vital for the industry because they help people stay working in a job that they love, when at times, it might not seem possible.Anonymous, TV Production Manager
How we’ve supported people in the past
"Last year I was signed off work in TV production due to stress. After working in the industry for 17 years I found it to be relentless and I struggled with balancing my professional and personal life. Although taking some time away from the industry was positive for my mental wellbeing, I started to feel nervous that being away for too long would make it impossible for me to manage the pressures of working in production again. Feeling lost and with no idea what to do next, a friend suggested I reach out to the Film and TV Charity to see how their support might be able to help me. I had no idea at that point how much working with the Charity would completely change my life!
Together with my adviser, we created a tangible action plan . She was more than just a career adviser, she was a lifeline, a mentor, and someone to speak to. Over time my confidence began to grow, and I started to feel like I could begin to reach out to the industry again.
By working with my adviser, I’ve learnt how to create boundaries for myself between my professional and personal life. I now carve out time just for me and feel like I can be a better mum to my children because of the support that I've had and the life choices I've been able to make.
Without the Charity, I would never have been able to even think about trying to get back into the industry, the support I was given was just invaluable. I think more people should take advantage of their services.
With the massive skills gap in the industry at the moment, the Charity’s work is even more relevant because it positively influences the longevity of people's careers in TV".
"Having previously received the Charity’s Stop-Gap Grant, I was advised about the Work and Wellbeing service they provide.
As a Working Class, Autistic parent, I often face multiple barriers when it comes to employment opportunities, especially within the film and TV industry. For the last six months, the Charity hasn’t just helped me financially, they’ve also helped my confidence by helping me to re-evaluate my goals and aims when applying for work, and by helping me develop the skills to further my career ambitions.
Their care, support, understanding, and willingness to be there for me in and outside of calls gave me a great sense of reassurance, and has made a positive impact on both my professional and personal lives.
I would wholeheartedly recommend their services. They are incredibly respectful and accommodating of accessibility needs and requirements, and I will continue to champion and advocate for them for the support they offer for those within the film and TV industry."