Aspire - Havering

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If you want to work but aren’t sure where to start, our Individual Placement and Support service can help.

What is Individual Placement and Support?

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a type of employment support. IPS can help you find job opportunities. An Employment Specialist will work with you to achieve your employment goals. 

Together, we will identify your strengths and skills so you can focus on the types of jobs you are well suited to.

You will have access to:

  • One-to-one support with searching, applying, and interviewing for jobs
  • Up to nine months' support to find a job
  • Up to four months of in-work support
  • Jobs that are not advertised elsewhere
  • Opportunities for you to meet with employers
  • Support to stay focused on getting the job you want
  • Help to find work that suits you, whether it’s part-time or full-time
  • Help to produce a professional CV
  • Access to resources, training and funding
  • Help with navigating your benefits to make sure you will be better off in work
  • Help to keep or change jobs if you are already working
  • Help if you need changes to your treatment provision to help enable you to continue paid work
  • Support to maintain your new role alongside your treatment
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You can get support from our IPS service if you are:

  • Accessing structured treatment at Change Grow Live
  • Interested in securing paid employment
  • 18-64 years old
  • Eligible to work in the UK
  • Committed to achieving your employment goals, and willing to attend regular meetings with us
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Get in touch to find out more

Getting in touch is really easy. You can do one of the following:

We are here to help and welcome all enquiries.

Information for employers

  • We offer hassle-free support to employers, to fill vacancies by connecting you with motivated candidates
  • We are a pre-funded recruitment service - it doesn’t cost anything to work with us meaning you fill your vacancies for free
  • Our Employment Specialists will continue to work with you and your new employee to ensure it is a great fit for everyone
  • Training and support are available to ensure your workforce can work well with employees who may have faced adversities
  • You will recruit an employee who really wants to work - all people using the IPS service are keen to find paid employment
  • Employment plays an important role in recovery and health improvement journeys. By employing someone through our service, you are helping to make a difference in the lives of people in the local community

Get in touch

If you are an employer and want to find out more about how working with our IPS service could benefit your organisation, please get in touch:

Email: [email protected]

Call: 07879 334904

Good news stories

‘My employment specialist Sharma helped me find work after being unemployed since January 2024. I was looking for part time work before but managed to get a full time job. This will help me to save money, so hopefully I can get my own flat. Sharma re-created my CV and covering letter, and we applied for jobs in the office together. Sharma also went out of her way to send me housing options via email’  

 

‘Sharma is my Employment Specialist. We started working together in August and I got a job in October. I study part time so wanted a job to be comfortable. Together we would apply for jobs face to face and she would call employers to help me understand the role a bit more. Sharma would sometimes send me jobs via email that she has seen’