Mental Health Individual Placement Support Employment Service.

Descriptions

The provision of a mental health Individual Placement Support employment service within the County ofStaffordshire, which delivers hope and optimism in its support to Eligible adults.The Provider shall work in partnership with local agencies and groups in the Contract Area to expand opportunities for Service Users, encouraging ServiceUsers to achieve their full potential and supporting individual Service Users to gain sustainable employment.The Provider shall ensure that the provision of the Service is underpinned by the philosophies of recovery, social inclusion, personal responsibility and people directing their own care.The Provider shall deliver the Service in accordance with the key principles of the evidence based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach tovocational services.The objectives of the Service are:— to enable Service Users to formulate, achieve andsustain their vocational goals, in a supportive andempowering environment;— Service Users will gain and retain quality,sustainable employment;— For Service Users to develop their skills and gainnew ones in line with their interests, throughvocational training and practical work experiences aspart of a clear route to paid employment;— to ensure that service users are assisted to retainheir employment (e.g. through being supported tonegotiate reasonable adjustments under the EqualityAct 2010 with their employer);— to provide, directly or through partner organisations,careers advice and accurate benefits information toenable Service Users to make informed decisionsaround taking up and keeping in employment;— to establish vocationally themed Peer Supportgroup(s);— to challenge the low expectations about, and raiseawareness of, the employability of people who haveexperienced mental health problems;— to allocate a named Mental Health EmploymentAdviser for each Mental Health Clinical and SocialCare Team;— to act as one of the key links to employmentproviders;— to provide employment advice to Care Co-ordinators,employers and others where necessary;