Working well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care
We deliver the Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care (WW:IPSPC) in Stockport. WW:IPSPC supports people with disabilities and long-term physical or mental health conditions, to find or stay in work.
What are you looking for?
If you have a disability or long-term physical or mental health condition and need support finding work
We can provide you with tailored support and guidance to help you find long lasting employment by supporting you with:
- One-to-one support from an Employment Specialist.
- Rapid, personalised job search to help you find the right job based on your skills and abilities.
- A team of health professionals who will make sure your health remains a priority.
- Creating a CV and covering letter.
- Better-off-calculations and benefits advice.
- Careers advice, information and guidance.
- Self-employment advice.
- Contacting potential employers on your behalf.
- Preparing for job interviews and accompanying you to interviews where needed.
- Access to iWorks, our online careers portal.
- Continued support once you’re in work.
If you’re currently employed and need help returning to or staying in work
We can help enable you to stay in work or to return to work after a period of sickness, whilst ensuring your health needs are prioritised. We provide a link between you, your healthcare provider, and your employer to make sure your individual needs are met in the workplace by:
- Working with your health professionals to ensure that your health is a priority.
- Taking your fit note recommendations to your employer.
- Working with your employer to ensure that they understand and can cater for your needs.
- Helping to resolve any barriers you might face at work.
- Identifying potential training for you and/or your employer.
- Career planning.
- Conducting three-way reviews with you and your employer.
- Giving you coping strategies, wellbeing applications and guidance.
- Advising you on your benefits.
- Providing access to 24/7 employee assistance programme.
If you’re an employer
We offer advice and guidance to employers with employees who are disabled, have long-term health conditions or mental health issues and are finding it difficult to stay in work. We provide tailored support which focuses on helping employees to overcome their personal barriers to work, helping them to return after a period of absence, and preventing them from requiring extended sickness leave.
We can help you and your employee by:
- Helping to identify and resolve barriers to work.
- Suggesting and implementing reasonable adjustments.
- Working alongside health professionals to ensure your employees' health needs are catered for.
- Providing access to a 24/7 employee assistance programme.
- Providing your employee with coping strategies, wellbeing applications and guidance.
- Identifying potential training for you and/or your employee.
- Conducting three-way reviews between you and your employee.
If you are from an organisation and work with people with disabilities, long-term health conditions or mental health issues you can refer a client or patient to this programme
We can offer your client or patients tailored support to help them gain sustainable employment, return to work or prevent them from falling out of work due to ill health.
We will work with your patients at their own pace, supporting them with:
- One-to-one support from an Employment Specialist.
- Rapid, personalised job search to help them find the right job based on their skills and abilities.
- A team of health professionals who will make sure their health remains a priority.
- Creating a CV and covering letter.
- Better-off-calculations and benefits advice.
- Careers advice, information and guidance.
- Self-employment advice.
- Contacting potential employers.
- Preparing for job interviews and accompanying them to interviews where needed.
- Access to iWorks, our online careers portal.
- Continued support once they’re in work.
Who is eligible?
To be eligible for Working Well: Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care, you must:
- Be a resident of Greater Manchester
- Not be on another DWP contracted employment programme or provision.
- Not be on another employment programme or provision delivered by another government department, charitable trust, or third party.
- Not be receiving employment support, other than from Jobcentre Plus.
- Have a disability or long-term health condition.
- Be willing to participate in WW: IPSPC to remain in paid work or be willing to find and sustain paid work.
- Be of working age (18 years and over).
- If already in-work, you must have been employed for at least three months before starting WW: IPSPC and be working a minimum of nine hours per week.
- Have an entitlement to public funds.
Delivered in partnership with:
Commissioned by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Ingeus delivers WW:IPSPC in Stockport on behalf of The Growth Company, the prime provider for the Greater Manchester region.