Individual Placement and Support ( Severe Mental Illness )

Region: All Y&NY
Category: Health, Work

Overview

Our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service supports adults who have severe mental health difficulties and who are receiving care from our community and primary care teams and who want to move into paid employment.

IPS provides people with the right support to develop employability skills including looking at how to apply for jobs, how to create a CV, interview techniques and with work-related area including benefit calculations and budgeting.

The service also involves intensive, individual support, and rapid job search support followed by placement into paid employment followed up by unlimited in-work support for both the individual and their employer.