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Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

How our service can help you

The service helps people with mental health problems to find and sustain paid employment.

The evidence-based approach was developed in the USA in the 1990s and is now used across the world, while international clinical trials have confirmed its effectiveness. The service offers:

  • A confidential, individualised service to suit your needs
  • Emphasis on finding the right paid work for you, based on what you want to do and how many hours
  • Meet on a regular basis with a member of the service
  • Develop a personalised action plan
  • Help writing your CV, covering letters and applications
  • Help you to search for appropriate jobs quickly.
  • Help to prepare prior to attending interviews. • Close collaboration with your mental health professionals, to make sure your health and work goals are joined up and that plans are in place to help you when you are in work
  • Help you to access benefits advice
  • Links with local services and employers
  • Continued support when you are in work for you and your employer.

Please click here for a case study.

Contact the service

  • The Old Town Hall

    17 Bridge Street

    Peterborough

    PE1 1HF
     

    •  

    T: 01733 748484

    E: IPSReferrals@cpft.nhs.uk
  • Business Hours/Visiting Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, excluding Bank Holidays

Where to park and are there parking charges?

  • Locality team sites, no charges.

How to cancel your appointment

  • Contact your Employment Specialist or the reception at your mental health team.

Carers Information

  • A carer is anyone, including children and adults who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction and cannot cope without their support. The care they give is unpaid.

    At Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, we value the often life-long support carers provide and recognise them as equal care partners. We want to offer as much guidance and reassurance as possible, to help you in your caring role. You can find general information and support for adult carers, young carers and parent carers by following this link. 

Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

How our service can help you

The service helps people with mental health problems to find and sustain paid employment.

The evidence-based approach was developed in the USA in the 1990s and is now used across the world, while international clinical trials have confirmed its effectiveness. The service offers:

  • A confidential, individualised service to suit your needs
  • Emphasis on finding the right paid work for you, based on what you want to do and how many hours
  • Meet on a regular basis with a member of the service
  • Develop a personalised action plan
  • Help writing your CV, covering letters and applications
  • Help you to search for appropriate jobs quickly.
  • Help to prepare prior to attending interviews. • Close collaboration with your mental health professionals, to make sure your health and work goals are joined up and that plans are in place to help you when you are in work
  • Help you to access benefits advice
  • Links with local services and employers
  • Continued support when you are in work for you and your employer.

Please click here for a case study.

Contact the service

  • The Old Town Hall

    17 Bridge Street

    Peterborough

    PE1 1HF
     

    •  

    T: 01733 748484

    E: IPSReferrals@cpft.nhs.uk
  • Business Hours/Visiting Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, excluding Bank Holidays

Where to park and are there parking charges?

  • Locality team sites, no charges.

How to cancel your appointment

  • Contact your Employment Specialist or the reception at your mental health team.

Carers Information

  • A carer is anyone, including children and adults who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction and cannot cope without their support. The care they give is unpaid.

    At Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, we value the often life-long support carers provide and recognise them as equal care partners. We want to offer as much guidance and reassurance as possible, to help you in your caring role. You can find general information and support for adult carers, young carers and parent carers by following this link. 
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As a patient, relative or carer using our services, sometimes you may need to turn to someone for help, advice, and support. 

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