History and Brief of HP-MOS

Health Psychology Management Organisation Service (HP-MOS) is a registered company by guarantee and registered charity working closely with many London Boroughs, primary, community, and corporate organisations to build the capacity and capability of these organisations in service provision and delivery. This burden is felt more acutely amongst deprived and marginalised communities. We strive to transform the way we work with people with long term conditions to focus much more on prevention, and early and accessible community-based psychological support services. We aim for these preventative support services to enable people to manage their conditions and their lives better in the long term which demonstrates a key component of our service.

Additionally, we aim to promote actions in improving life chances and reduce health inequalities for marginalised and disadvanted people and communities. We do this by giving the highest priority to the delivery of national and local mental and physical health needs to meet a challenge of providing psychological support that encompasses self-management and empowerment goals. Our planning and delivery framework of providing psychological support "unpacks" health conditions in a more "bottom up" approach by presenting a parallel "self-management and empowerment" narrative for which people experience more control over decisions that influence their health and lives, hence improve their quality of live. 

Our Psychological support creates:

• New services in different ways
• Facilitate more choices of health care provision
• Strengthen strategic alliances with public and private organisations
• Proactively consult and collaborate with many health and social care partners 
• A workforce of sufficient numbers of  "able" staff

The Cross-cutting benefit of our social support promotes;

• Professional  volunteering
• Social inclusion
• Tackles Health inequalities
• Partnership working  between sectors
• Building capacity to increase diversity of public and private service providers
• Supporting choice

Our Models of Key Self Management Strategies for Physical Health:

• Stanford model of Chronic Disease Self-Management Program  
• Health Psychology based Smoking Cessation (Level 3) SCTRP-Program 
• Health Psychology based Health Promotion/Awareness Program: The use of Motivational Interviewing Technique (MIT) 
• Health Psychology based Promotion of Health-enhancing  Behaviours  
• Health Psychology based Education on Health-compromising Behaviours
• Coping mechanisms to enhance behaviour modification and change techniques
• Preventative and intervention Lifestyle Factors affecting Health

Our Models of Key Self Management Strategies for Mental Health:

• Beating the Blues-Computerised cognitive Behavioural Therapy (cCBT) for Anxiety and Depression
• Stress Relief- offers validated assessment and multimedia personal programs for relief from stress using proven relaxation techniques
• The Relief Series -Online multimedia programs offering education and awareness to help promote mental health and well-being.
• Insomnia Relief- offers validated assessment tools  and multimedia personal programs for relief from insomnia using proven sleep hygiene, stimulus control and visualisation techniques

Our Models of Psychological and Mental Well-Being Strategies for Children and Young people:

• Anger Management Strategies
• Stress and Anxiety Management Strategies
• Building Self-Esteem & confidence Strategies
• Social Skills Strategies

Our Workforce/Professional Development strategies for supporting  Frontline Staff and Businesses:

• Developing organisational training strategies
• Providing mentoring support to frontline staff
• Developing frontline employee mentoring schemes and volunteer staff programmes 
• Increasing access to training skills which reduces work place Stress and Anxiety

Our Strategy for Work and Volunteering Placement Opportunities for Social Care and Psychology Undergraduates & Graduates is designed to:

• Benefit undergraduates and graduates
• Benefit our Organisation
• Benefit Universities

All our placement opportunities feed into our different work streams and allow undergraduates and graduates to apply their skills and knowledge appropriately to where it is required