Individual Placement Support Service: shaping employment support for people with mental health difficulties
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A new ‘Individual Placement Support’ (IPS) service will be introduced by Wakefield Mental Health Alliance late in 2021. This new service will help people with mental health difficulties to find and keep the right employment for them. Wakefield Mental Health Alliance want to make sure that the new IPS service provides the help that people need. They asked Healthwatch Wakefield to help them to find out what kind of support people might find helpful when looking for or keeping employment. To do this, Healthwatch Wakefield put together an online survey and organised two focus group discussions.
Overall, people were very enthusiastic about the proposed new IPS service and the model it will follow. People talked about the type of things that had previously helped them and the support that they would find useful now. There was also a lot of discussion around how important it is to offer support to people who are already in employment to allow them to continue in their role.
The report makes 6 recommendations.