This course trains OTs, Recovery Leads, managers and wider mental health team members in the essentials of IPS, teaching how to support their IPS co-workers in achieving successful client employment outcomes.

Supporting what works: Essential Training for Teams Hosting IPS

IPS is a whole systems approach. For success, it requires involvement of the whole care team and backing by the mental health organisation in which it takes place.

One third of the activities that describe the IPS approach (the IPS Fidelity Scale) have to involve activity from other team members. An effective IPS service needs the support and understanding of clinicians and managers.

The training will cover: 

• What is IPS and why does it work?
• How does an IPS employment worker support somebody with mental ill health into work?
• How can the rest of the team (and organisation) support each phase of IPS involvement? 
• How does employment fit into recovery-oriented mental health work? 

•  New areas starting IPS. The course prepares the ground for a new IPS service.
•  Areas where integration is proving difficult: This could have been highlighted in a Fidelity Review, either formal or self-assessed.  

• Recovery Leads
• Occupational Therapists
• Managers (Mental Health Team Managers, Occupational Therapy Mangers, Service Managers, Recovery Service Team Managers)
• Team Members (Peer Support Workers, CPNs, Social Workers, Support Workers)
• Psychologists
• IAPT teams
• Primary care mental health teams
• Dual diagnosis teams (substance misuse and mental health) and other teams providing ongoing clinical support