Implementing employment support programmes can involve organisational changes.
Work Counts offers a range of practical training and support to help you develop and deliver successful evidence-based supported employment programmes that are seamlessly integrated with your current service delivery approach.
Recognising that every organisation is at a different stage on the employment support journey, our services can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
In following people for 30 years in dozens of research studies, it’s totally clear to me that there’s nothing that helps people to recover in the same way that supported employment does.
Consultancy services
Implementation of evidence-based employment support is a process that can involve philosophical, organisational and programmatic changes. Our team of experts can provide consultancy and support to help your organisation develop and deliver a successful IPS programme.
We can spend time with your team to:
- share information about the benefits of the IPS approach
- give tailored advice and support to design programmes
- explore your current practices, structures and philosophies that are consistent with IPS employment support
- create implementation plans for your organisation.
Our consultancy services on offer are ideal for NGO, health and education providers, or government agencies who are interested in developing or delivering IPS services.
If you’re unsure about whether or not this is right for your organisation then please contact us and we can talk through your organisations needs and suggest the best approach.
Fidelity reviews
Fidelity reviews are a continuous improvement process where a service is reviewed against the IPS approach. A globally recognised fidelity scale translates the principles of IPS into items that a service can be scored against. The higher the score, the greater the quality of the service.
We can assist you to prepare for and undertake a fidelity review. Our reviewers can spend time with your organisation to review the quality of IPS implementation with a series of observations, interviews and document reviews.
We also offer support with action plans to improve fidelity between reviews. This can include training and practical implementation support, targeted at those areas you would like to improve.
An independent fidelity review can also assure stakeholders of the effectiveness of your programme.
View an example fidelity scale.
Employment support training
An introduction to the IPS approach
A three-hour training session on the basic elements of the individual placement and support (IPS) approach to evidence-based employment support.
View the flyer An introduction to the IPS approach.
Let’s talk about mental health and work
A three-hour training session which will challenge perceptions, raise aspirations and bust some commonly held myths.
View the flyer Let’s talk about mental health and work.
Managing personal information
This three-hour training session will help you understand what is meant by managing personal information within an employment context, and why it is an important consideration.
View the flyer Managing personal information.
Three cups of tea – Developing employer relationships
This one-day interactive workshop will support employment consultants with approaching, engaging and developing relationships with employers.
View the flyer Three cups of tea – Developing employer relationships.
Bespoke training
We can work with you to provide the training you need to meet your specific requirements in developing and delivering a successful IPS programme.
Tools and templates
Work Counts can minimise the administrative burden of setting up a new IPS programme.
We can provide a full range of operational templates for your leadership team, steering group and employment specialists. These tools are relevant for the New Zealand context and enable consistent and quicker implementation of a employment support programme.
Practical implementation support
Our team of experts can help translate the wealth of evidence in this field into tailored ‘how to’ plans for you and any partner organisations. We can spend time getting to know your needs before creating a plan to help you achieve results.
Our implementation managers can provide individualised support, in person, via video conference or phone to ensure you have the necessary ongoing support and tools for implementation. This can include on-site coaching, mentoring, training and general support.
Over the last decade the Work Counts team has been at the heart of the international IPS community, supporting organisations to become centres of excellence in the individual placement and support approach.
