Individual Placement Service (IPS) - Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB

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£2,533,333

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  • Health services

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  • award
  • contract

Published

2 years ago

Description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU has been working on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, to award a contract for an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Programme. <br/>Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence- based model of employment support. Supporting people with severe mental health difficulties to find and keep competitive employment. It involves intensive, individual support, a rapid job search followed by placement in paid employment, and time-unlimited in-work support for both the employee and the employer.<br/><br/>The Lancashire and South Cumbria IPS service currently offers support to any Lancashire and South Cumbria service users aged between 16 and 69 years of age, referred via Early Intervention in Psychosis or Community Mental Health Teams or service users within either of these services who choose to self-refer into the IPS service.<br/>The service operates within the 8 key principles of IPS and a fidelity review of the service is carried out by<br/>IPS Grow to ensure the quality of the service and demonstrates the commitment to continuous quality<br/>improvement.<br/>The contract will require the provider to work with the ICB to further expand the service to other mental<br/>health services available to individuals with a severe mental illness including primary care, increasing the<br/>number of individuals supported to secure employment inline with the NHS Long Term Plan requirements<br/>as stipulated in the service specification.<br/>The provider will demonstrate the increase in activity by provided regular reports to commissioners and<br/>demonstrating the number of service users becoming actively engaged in the service and number of<br/>service users starting paid employment as well as other standards required by the commissioners.

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