A day in the life of an Employment Specialist
Richard reflects on a typical day supporting people with mental health difficulties to find employment
Type: Blog
From prison to work
Can an employment support model be adapted to help people with mental health problems leaving prison?
Type: Publication
Making Individual Placement and Support work
The critical success factors for providing employment support
Type: Publication
The ‘Making IPS Work’ Project
Julie Bailie explains how an IPS employment support team has been embedded in Community Mental Health Teams
Type: Blog
IPS in the UK
Using Individual Placement and Support to help people with mental health difficulties to find and keep work
Type: Publication
Stories of success
Our success stories of expanding the reach and quality of IPS in the UK
Type: Page
Online tools for job-seeking
Resources for finding new careers, jobs, internships and apprenticeships, as well as advice about self-employment, welfare and self-disclosure.
Type: Page
Employment: the economic case
Mental health problems cost employers nearly £35 billion each year. That’s about £1,300 per employee.
Type: Page
Employment after prison
Reoffending costs the economy somewhere in the region of £11 billion. But less than a quarter of prisoners leave prison into some form of employment. Evidence shows that additional support is more likely to help ex-prisoners.
Type: Page
Briefing 37: Doing what works
This briefing outlines the evidence base for Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and provides information on how to ‘do what works’.
Type: Publication