Project
Evaluating Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and IPS Grow
Mar 24, 2021
IPS supports people with serious mental illness into employment. IPS Grow supports IPS services. We use a theory-based approach and a logic model to examine IPS Grow's impact on funded IPS services. The study aimed to examine the uptake of support from IPS Grow by IPS services, explore the perceptions of IPS Grow by key audiences, and examine the impact that different elements of support from IPS Grow had on services.
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Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based model which supports people with serious mental illness into employment. In order to increase access to IPS services nationally, NHSE and Improvement has allocated funds to specific sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) areas. A proportion of funding was dedicated to IPS Grow: a national implementation support initiative that aims to speed up the time that services take to deliver high quality IPS and to ensure their sustainability. IPS Grow provides technical implementation support, workforce development support and data tools and performance standards support, through an online platform, networking and events, and support from a dedicated team.
Our evaluation used a theory-based approach and a logic model to examine IPS Grow's impact on funded IPS services. We aimed to answer seven evaluation questions through a combination of methods, including telephone interviews, focus groups, case studies, online surveys and a targeted documentation review (including of reports and plans from services' IPS fidelity reviews).
The study aimed to examine the uptake of support from IPS Grow by IPS services, explore the perceptions of IPS Grow by key audiences, and examine the impact that different elements of support from IPS Grow had on services, depending on their organisational features.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
The intervention (IPS Grow) and its evaluation (approach, questions and methods)
Chapter Three
Findings
Chapter Four
Conclusions and recommendations
The research described in this report was prepared for NHS England and Improvement and the Department of Work and Pensions Joint Work and Health Unit and conducted by RAND Europe.
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