Conducting IPS Supervisions


Date: 29 October 2024

Timings: 09:15 – 16:30 with regular breaks and an hour for lunch

Delivered: Live-online via Zoom

Price: £210 + VAT per person (£252 total)


About:


Are you new to providing supervision or are you looking to enhance your supervision skills?


Conducting supportive and effective client-based supervision can increase overall job satisfaction of those you supervise, and in turn work towards achieving a high-fidelity IPS service, where IPS clients are successfully supported to secure and maintain jobs they want.


This interactive 1-day course will help you develop your skills in providing excellent supervision to motivate and support employment specialists, giving structure and direction in how they can support IPS clients into work.


This course is aimed at anyone who carries out client-based supervisions to support employment specialists and provides the knowledge, understanding and practical tools required to deliver effective IPS supervision.


The training will cover:


  • The different types of individual supervision and how to provide them

  • Group supervisions; how to prepare for and run them

  • Working with different personalities

  • Adapting your approach to suit each employment specialist’s background/experience

  • Field mentoring, tailored to match each employment specialist’s needs

  • How to deliver effective feedback

  • Modelling IPS good practice and helping supervisees overcome challenges/barriers to achieving it

  • Harnessing help from multidisciplinary team members

  • Providing additional in-the-field support

Employer Engagement


Date: 12 November 2024

Timings: 09:15 – 16:30 with regular breaks and an hour for lunch

Delivered: Live-online via Zoom

Price: £210 + VAT per person (£252 total)


About:


Level-up your employer engagement.


Are you hearing things like “apply online” or “we’re not hiring”? Are you making initial contact but things don’t progress? No problem, this course has you covered. We’ll show you how to navigate the common obstacles people face when out and about meeting local employers. We understand the challenges of employer engagement and we’re here to help you overcome them.


This course is perfect for employment specialists, supervisors, occupational therapists and vocational support workers who support IPS clients into work.


The training will cover:


  • The challenges of employer engagement

  • Myth busting: the misconceptions of employer engagement

  • Making the perfect introduction

  • Progressing past the initial introduction

  • Managing employers’ concerns (and yours)

  • Building relationships that feel natural

  • How IPS benefits employers

  • Sharing personal information with employers (disclosure)

  • … and more

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