Centres of excellence
We have selected 18 sites to be Centres of Excellence in supporting people who use mental health services into employment.
Services in Birmingham, Bradford, Central and North West London, Devon, Essex, Essex (veteran-specific service), Lincolnshire, Manchester, Mersyside, North Staffordshire, Nottingham, Shropshire, Somerset, Stafford, Sussex, Walsall, Wiltshire and Worcestershire have committed to being partners in the programme. 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 base employment services for people with mental health problems on the evidence of what works best. 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 Centres of Excellence project is based on a similar scheme developed in the US by Dartmouth Medical School, with the support of Johnson & Johnson. Both are offering their assistance to the project to ensure that we learn from international experience and share our learning with other countries.
IPS Open Days
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.
Each year the Centres hold open days during which managers, clinicians, employment specialists and service users share their experience of running and using the service. It is an ideal opportunity for 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.
Centres of excellence partners
The full list of partners in the Centres of Excellence programme is:
Bradford
- Provider of clinical services: Bradford and District Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: BDCFT
Contact: nosheen.zabir@bdct.nhs.uk
Lincolnshire
- Providers of clinical services: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: LPFT
Contact: Jane.Tuxworth@LPFT.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
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
Central and North West London
- Provider of clinical services: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)
- Provider of employment service: CNWL (mostly) plus partners JobCentre Plus, Harrow Council
Contact: lynne.miller@nhs.net
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
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
Devon
- Provider of clinical services: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: WorkWAYS (run by the Trust)
Contact: lynn.aggett@nhs.net
Nottingham
- Provider of clinical services: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Contact: julie.swann@nottshc.nhs.uk
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
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
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
Manchester
- Provider of clinical services: Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust
Contact: Caron.Lydon@mhsc.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
Merseyside (Liverpool, Sefton and Kirkby)
- Providers of clinical services: Mersey Care NHS Trust
- Provider of employment service: Network Employment, Mersey Care NHS Trust and Imagine Independence
Contact: jane.holland@merseycare.nhs.uk
Birmingham
- Provider of clinical services: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
- Provider of employment service: Better Pathways
Contact: elizabetha@betterpathways.org.uk
Wiltshire
- Provider of clinical services: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Mental Health Trust
- Provider of employment service: Richmond Fellowship
Last updated 01/03/2019