Individual Placement Support (IPS)

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a specialist employment service operating across the AWP patch.

The service is well established in Bath and North East Somerset (BANES), Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW), and expanded in 2021 to include Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG).

People with mental health problems often want to be working but don't know how to go about it or need support to make it happen.

IPS takes an evidence-based approach always using client-centred - employment as an active intervention to assist individual recovery.

Employment specialists can support clients by helping:

• To overcome setbacks and worries at work
• With career progression
• Get the right information about benefits to avoid the risks and anxieties of becoming worse off in work where possible
• Make contact with employers and offer support when meeting with them, if needed
• Provide ongoing in-work support to ensure sustained employment.

There are different ways to be referred to the IPS service

You can access our service if you are aged 18 or over, motivated to get a paid job and willing to start actively job searching. How to get referred:

• AWP Community Mental Health Team
• AWP Early Intervention Service

IPS Primary Care service

You can access the service if you are age 18 and over, motivated to get a paid job and willing to start actively job searching .

Click here to self refer

IPS & CAMHS Service

IPS & CAMHS services are working in Partnership to support young people into educational opportunities from the age of 16-25 years. How to get referred:

• Your clinician can refer you