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Supporting People with Health Conditions into Work: IPS Case Management
Employ IPS strategies to support people with health challenges succeed at work
Efficient case management is key to ensuring that millions of people in the UK with physical and mental health conditions feel as capable as anyone else in obtaining their professional goals.
What do efficient case management techniques look like and how can you become an advocate for inclusive practices?
Find out on this five-week course from IPS Grow, Social Finance, and NHS England. After mastering the essentials of IPS case management and understanding the IPS process, you’ll receive a certificate of completion for this course.
Understand case management essentials
At the beginning of this course, explore the fundamentals of effective case management. Discuss the roles employment specialists play in supporting people with health conditions to find and keep work.
This foundational knowledge will serve as a cornerstone throughout the IPS process course, enabling you to better client outcomes.
Delve into the IPS process, from outreach to follow-along support
Explore the five stages of the IPS process: outreach and engagement, building vocational profiles, employment action plans, employer engagement, and developing follow-along support.
Within each of these steps, you’ll learn best practices, such as efficient record-keeping and client-centred care, to ensure cases maintain their momentum.
To help you in this process, you’ll also gain useful tips to support yourself in this profession, navigate job markets, and handle common employer concerns.
Upskill your IPS knowledge with expert insights from NHS England, Social Finance, and IPS Grow
Throughout this course, you’ll be supported by a team of IPS experts committed to improving workplace development initiatives and upskilling the IPS workforce.
Syllabus
Week 1
The Principles of IPS
Introduction
This section provides an introduction to the course.
What makes a good Employment Specialist?
This section maps out some of the attributes of a high performing ES.
What is IPS?
This section looks at what IPS is and goes over its unique features.
Learning Activities
This section contains a few activities for learners to go through.
Resources
This section contains resources to consolidate your learning.
Week 2
Case Management: Phases 1&2
Case Management Essentials
This section looks at the fundamentals of Case Management.
Phase 1 & 2
This section will go over Phases 1 & 2 of the Case Management process in greater detail.
Integration with the Clinical Team
This section will introduce the clinical team and cover why integrating with it is important.
Learning Activities
A few activities to help consolidate your learning.
Resources
This section contains resources that will help you consolidate your learning.
Week 3
Case Management: Phases 3,4 & 5
Phase 3
This section will look at Phase 3 of the Case Management Process.
Phase 4
This section explores Phase 4 of the Case Management process.
Phase 5
This section looks at Phase 5 of the Case Management process.
Reasonable Adjustments
This section sheds some light on reasonable adjustments at the workplace.
Learning Activities
A few activities to help consolidate your learning.
Resources
This section contains resources to consolidate your learning.
Week 4
Planning for Success
Navigating Safety Risks in IPS
How can you navigate safety risks in IPS?
Building Rapport
This section examines the role that the ES and employer alike have to play in the case management process.
Tips for Best Practice
This section will go over some tips on best practice for Case Managers.
Developing an Action Plan
This section will look at the elements of an effective action plan.
Benefits Advice
This section will go over why and how to provide benefits advice to clients.
Learning Activities
Activities to help supplement your learning.
Resources
Resources to consolidate your learning.
Week 5
Top Tips for Job Seeking
Top Tips for Job Seeking
This section will provide various tips that will aid in the job seeking process.
The Hidden Job Market
This section looks at the idea of the hidden job market.
Learning Activities
Share your thoughts with your fellow learners!
Resources
Additional resources to supplement your learning.
Week 6
Maintaining Case Momentum
Celebrating Success and Managing Demands
How can case managers celebrate successes, manage demands, and communicate effectively?
In Work Support
This section will look at in-work support and how to create a good in-work support plan.
Evaluating Job Sustainability
How can we assess the sustainability of a job for our client?
Tackling Roadblocks
This section looks at how to tackle certain roadblocks that may emerge.
Stepping Down
How can we ensure that the process of stepping down is as smooth as possible?
Learning Activity
Consolidate your learning!
Week 7
Managing Professional Roles
Case Notes and Diary Management
This section looks at the importance of taking accurate case notes and managing your diary efficiently.
Managing Your Professional Role
How do we maintain our energy and enthusiasm over a sustained period of time?
Active and Inactive Clients
What are some indicators of active and inactive clients?
Keeping the Client Partnership Healthy
This section will go over ways the client partnership can be kept healthy.
Taking Care of Yourself
This final section looks at ways you can ensure that you are taking care of yourself.
Consolidating your learning
Discussion activities to consolidate your learning.
Resources
Additional resources to supplement your learning.
When would you like to start?
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe and understand the fundamentals of IPS case management
- Apply the 5 essential delivery elements of IPS case management
- Identify best practices to help with case momentum
- Reflect on ways to support yourself in your professional practice
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for IPS employment specialists, team leaders, and individuals with a working knowledge of IPS who are looking to expand their expertise in case management.
You can explore more IPS strategies with NHS England’s Supporting People with Health Conditions Into Work: Individual Placement and Support (IPS).
Who will you learn with?
Who developed the course?
Centre for Mental Health
Centre for Mental Health is an independent charity who aim to take the lead in challenging policies, systems and society, so everyone can have better mental health. By developing mental health research, economic analysis and policy ideas, they hope to equip services and decision makers to meet people’s needs and reduce mental health inequalities.
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Choose the best way to learn for you!
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$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$109/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 26 Mar 2025
Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades) Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply. |
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