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Implementing what works: the impact of individual placement and support regional trainer: briefing
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is now internationally recognised as the most effective and efficient way of supporting people who experience a mental illness into competitive employment. This briefing paper reports on the results of a pilot project to speed up the implementation of IPS across mental health services in Sussex through the creation of a ‘regional trainer’ role. The role was based on the State Trainer model that was developed and is widely used in the United States. A ‘regional trainer’ was employed for a year in Sussex to ensure fidelity to the IPS model in mental health and employment services. During the 12 months of the pilot the number of people using the trust's mental health services who obtained paid work through the IPS service more than doubled the target of 125, with 286 people finding paid employment. Key to the success of the regional trainer was their ability to encourage cultural change, which accepts employment as part of an individual’s recovery, and the use of regular ‘fidelity reviews’ to determine how well the principles of IPS are being applied in practice and to make recommendations for improved outcomes. The findings indicate that wider use of the regional trainer role could help mental health and employment services across the UK to support more people into paid work.
The mental health strategy, system reforms and spending pressures: what do we know so far?
- Authors:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government’s 2011 mental health strategy, ‘No Health Without Mental Health’, set out a vision for both improved mental health for all and better support for people with mental health problems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the delivery of this strategy. A brief questionnaire was sent to 24 national organisations to identify key themes from intelligence they had received to date from their members. This was followed up by either a face-to-face or phone interview with the 17 organisations that responded. The interview focussed on how delivery of the strategy was being influenced by pressures on public spending and the emerging reforms in health local government and other public services. This research paper summarises the main findings of that process and the implications of these findings for mental health policy and practice in England. The findings suggest that the strategy’s practical impact on service commissioning and provision has been limited; knowledge of the strategy among commissioners in particular is variable and there is little evidence that it is being used as a guide to local decision making.