It’s World Mental Health Day 2024.
The theme for this year highlights the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service supports adults who have severe mental illness and who are receiving care from our community mental health teams 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 areas including benefit calculations and budgeting.
The service gives individual support and rapid job search support followed by placement into paid employment. They also provide unlimited in-work support for both the individual and their employer, to ensure they are supported during their time at work.
Since 2019, our IPS service has achieved almost 1,500 job starts for people in our care.
We caught up with IPS advisors Robbie and Luke, and team lead Kim Hodgson, to find out more about IPS and the support it offers.
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Hear from Kathryn, a peer trainer in our Trust, who was supported by our IPS service after not working since 2004.
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Find out why being working is beneficial for someone with severe mental illness.
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Find out more about our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service.
