9. Ongoing support

IPS works because it includes providing support to clients when they're doing the job. Here are some resources to help you do that.

A questionnaire for employers and employees to identify areas of work place stress for an employee (129 KB)

A list of physical, psychological and behavioural indicators that may indicate declining mental health in the work place (32 KB)

People with long term mental health conditions are protected by law in the workplace. This factsheet explains that legal protection (649 KB)

An employees guide to the use of the fit note for absences due to their condition (131 KB)

A guide on the legal implications of sickness absence caused by disability (Trade Union Congress) (152 KB)

A guide for trade union reps on how to support someone with a mental health condition (680 KB)

A guide to mediation in the work place (Consensio) (786 KB)

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Fidelity reviews - training videos

These are IPS fidelity review training videos by Dartmouth University. They are helpful for both people who are reviewing a service or those who are being reviewed.
8. Job placement

Resources about placing a client in a job.
7. Employer engagement

Resources about engaging employers with the IPS service.
6. Vocational Action Planning

Action planning as about assigning SMART actions that will help the client achieve their employment goal.
5. Vocational Profiling

Vocational profiling helps the employment specialist understand what the service user would enjoy doing to find their clients jobs that will suit them.
4. Benefits planning

Benefits planning is one of the principles of IPS. It is important for the service user to understand the impact working will have on their financial situation.
3. Referrals to an IPS service

Most referrals for an IPS service will be through a clinician or by the service user's self referral. Here are some resources about referrals.
2. Marketing an IPS service

This sections provides examples of marketing materials that services use to inform clinicians, service users and employers about the service on offer.

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Crisis contacts

Unfortunately, we can't respond to individual queries. But if you need to speak to someone, there are helplines you can call listed here.
Missed opportunities

We reviewed recent evidence about children's mental health, and found that children wait on average 10 years before receiving help.
What is IPS?

The basic principles behind the most effective method of employment support
About us

The lives of people with mental health conditions are harder, poorer and shorter than they should be. We're working on ways to fix this.
Risk, safety and recovery

Risk, Safety and Recovery argues that risk and safety are rightly major concerns in mental health care but that traditional clinical management methods of assessing risk have stood in the way of helping people to recover their lives.
Secure mental health services

Secure mental health services treat people with severe mental health problems who pose a risk to the public. But the services are subject to long delays and patients getting stuck.
Costs of perinatal mental health problems

Perinatal mental health problems carry a total cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK. But the NHS would need to spend just £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health care up to the recommended level.
The IPS Fidelity Scale

The fidelity scale determines the extent to which an existing employment service is delivery the IPS approach. Test your service against the fidelity scale here.
Parity of esteem

Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. There are however many areas where parity of esteem has not yet been realised.
Economic and social costs of mental health problems

The total cost of mental health problems in England in 2009/10 was £105.2 billion.

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