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Our IPS service offers personalised employment support for people with mental health conditions, helping you find a new job and providing a year of support as standard once you start work.
Working with your local Mental Health Recovery Team, our IPS (Individual Placement and Support) Employment team can help you find and keep a job suitable to your needs.
We can support you with your job search, engaging with employers, CV building, interview preparation, and once you’re employed, we’ll offer you a year of in-work support as standard.
If you're currently working with NHS Talking Therapies Portsmouth, you can access our Primary Employment Service instead. Their team can help short-term with things like job applications, reasonable adjustments or maintaining your health and wellbeing while you're at work.
If you are not accessing these services, we usually offer a weekly drop-in at our Portsmouth Wellbeing Centre. This is suitable for those with quick questions or in need of bitesize employment advice.
You must be receiving support from a Solent NHS Trust Mental Health Recovery Team to be eligible.
Simply ask any mental health professional involved with your support to request a referral including ICM (Intensive Case Management) or the A2i duty team (Access to Intervention).
You can contact ICM and A2i duty team on 0300 123 3921.
When you are referred to our service you will be allocated an IPS Employment Specialist who will build a vocational profile and goal plan to help identify the career path you want to pursue, how we can work best with you, and any barriers that are holding you back from employment.
We can help you build a new or updated CV, assist in your job search, prepare you for interviews and advise you on rights at work and disclosing your mental health to an employer.
We can also, with your consent, directly contact employers on your behalf: promoting your suitability for a particular role.
Once you have found your job we will continue to support you with an in-work support plan, offering you regular appointments to assist in making your working life a positive experience.
We can also support you in thinking about progressing your career.
Our team can support you to stay in paid employment and retain your job.
We can also support you with volunteering, educational and training opportunities. Contact us for more information.
Before meeting with my Employment Advisor, I genuinely felt that I had nothing to offer. She helped me to realise that I was capable of a lot more than I had given myself credit for.
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