Centres of Excellence
We have recognised a number of IPS services across England as Centres of Excellence™ in supporting people who use mental health services into employment.
They will act as exemplars of how Individual Placement and Support (IPS) can be implemented in localities across England.
These areas will demonstrate how to implement the evidence of what works best in providing employment services for people with mental health problems. In each site, the local mental health trust will work with partners in employment services, local authorities and other agencies to offer people effective support to get into paid work. The learning from these sites will be shared with other areas of England.
The IPS Centres of Excellence™ are exemplary in their use of the IPS model and the job outcomes they achieve for people with severe and enduring mental illness.
The Centres of Exellence™ welcome organisations and commissioners interested in setting up an IPS employment service and/or new IPS services that wish to learn from a more experienced service.
Do you have more questions on what it means to be a Centre of Excellence?
Check out our Centres of Excellence FAQ page
Centres of excellence partners
The full list of partners in the Centres of Excellence programme is:
Birmingham
- Provider of clinical services: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Better Pathways
Contact: elizabetha@betterpathways.org.uk
Bradford
- Provider of clinical services: Bradford and District Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: BDCFT
Contact: nosheen.zabir@bdct.nhs.uk
Bromley
- Provider of clinical services: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich Mind
Contact: Dominic.Parkinson@BLGmind.org.uk
Central and North West London
- Provider of clinical services: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)
- Provider of employment service: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)
Contact: rash.patel@nhs.net
Devon
- Provider of clinical services: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: WorkWAYS (run by the Trust)
Contact: lynn.aggett@nhs.net
Dudley and Walsall
- Provider of clinical services: Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Contact: adrian.garbett@dwmh.nhs.uk
Essex
- Providers of clinical services: Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: EPUT plus Employability
Contact: Raza@nhs.net
Essex (Veterans specific service)
- Providers of clinical services: Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Working With The Wounded (in partnership with Midlands and East Veterans Service)
Contact: amy@wwtw.org.uk
Greater Manchester (Veterans specific service)
- Providers of clinical services: Military Veterans Service, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/military-veterans-service
- Provider of employment service: Working With The Wounded https://walkingwiththewounded.org.uk
Contact: amy@wwtw.org.uk
Haringey IAPT
- Provider of clinical services: Whittington Health
- Provider of employment service: Shaw Trust
Contact: David.Harper@shaw-trust.org.uk
Lincolnshire
- Providers of clinical services: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: LPFT
Contact: Sara.Brewin@LPFT.nhs.uk
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Provider of clinical services: East London Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Working Well Trust
Contact: amelia@wwtrust.co.uk
Merseyside (Liverpool, Sefton and Kirkby)
- Providers of clinical services: Mersey Care NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Mersey Care NHS Trust and Imagine Independence
Contact: jane.holland@merseycare.nhs.uk
Nottingham
- Provider of clinical services: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Contact: julie.swann@nottshc.nhs.uk
Shropshire
- Provider of clinical services: South Staffordshire and Shropshire Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Enable, Shropshire Council
Contact: jonathan.allan@shropshire.gov.uk
Somerset
- Provider of clinical services: Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employment Support Service
Contact: Eugene.stevenson@sompar.nhs.uk
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
- Provider of clinical services: North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Step On
Contact: simonj.wilson@combined.nhs.uk
Sussex
- Provider of clinical services: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Southdown Supported Employment Services and Steps to Work
Contact: kate.bones@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Contact: m.dominy@southdownhousing.org
Wiltshire
- Provider of clinical services: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Mental Health Trust
- Provider of employment service: Richmond Fellowship
Worcestershire
- Provider of clinical services: Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Worcestershire Health and Care Trust
Contact: paul.wilcox@nhs.net
Last updated: 7th February, 2020