Mental Health, Wellbeing & Neurodiversity Support

The Partnership

Optima is an appointed supply partner to a major national employability and skills organisation operating across the UK. The prime contractor holds government-commissioned employability contracts and requires a specialist delivery partner with qualified clinical and coaching capability to support participants whose barriers to employment are rooted in mental health challenges or neurodivergent conditions.

Referrals into Optima’s services come directly through the prime contractor’s employability programmes, including national restart and work and health schemes. Our role is to provide the specialist interventions that sit outside the prime contractor’s core offer but are essential to participant progress.

What We Deliver

One-to-one neurodiversity coaching

Individual coaching sessions wholly bespoke to each participant’s needs, delivered by Optima’s qualified coaching staff with specialist expertise in supporting individuals with neurodivergent conditions. Each participant receives personalised support designed around how they think, process and engage building strategies that help them navigate employment environments more effectively.

One-to-one clinical mental health counselling

Individual clinical sessions addressing a wide range of barriers including anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex trauma, stress and sleep difficulties. Delivered by Optima’s qualified mental health counsellors, each session is tailored to individual need and reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure the right level and duration of support.

Remote group wellbeing workshops

Two-hour online group sessions for cohorts of 4 to 12 participants, covering 28 evidence-based topics developed by Optima’s Clinical Lead, a registered Mental Health Nurse. Topics include self-belief, resilience, stress and anxiety, healthy habits, financial wellbeing, mindfulness, managing menopause, suicide awareness, PTSD, complex trauma and more. Sessions are practical, focused and designed to create immediate, applicable outcomes for participants.

Why We Were Appointed

The prime contractor required a delivery partner with clinical credibility, specialist neurodiversity expertise and the operational infrastructure to manage referrals, reporting and quality assurance to government contract standard. Optima’s qualified team, established clinical governance, safeguarding framework and track record of delivering mental health and neurodiversity services to individuals in complex circumstances made us the right fit for this appointment.