AWP Individual Placement Support (IPS)
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a specialist employment service delivered by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership.
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.
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.