IPS employment support for people with drug and alcohol addictions
This project is also known as West London Alliance
Aligned SDGs
- IPS employment support for people with drug and alcohol addictions
- General overview
- Location
- Involved organisations
- Outcome metrics
- SyROCCo reports
- Other resources
- Spreadsheet of data
- IPS employment support for people with drug and alcohol addictions
- General overview
- Location
- Involved organisations
- Outcome metrics
- SyROCCo reports
- Other resources
- Spreadsheet of data
General overview
Stage of development: Implementation
Policy sector: Employment and training
Date outcomes contract signed: Aug 2018
Start date of service provision: Jan 2019
Anticipated completion date: Sep 2022
Capital raised (minimum): GBP 400k (USD 533.67k)
Max potential outcome payment: GBP 2.38m
Service users: 2k+ individuals
Intervention
Individual Placement Support Service to help find and sustain work for adults who have or have had Drug and Alcohol Treatment.
Target population
Supports people aged 16-70 years old with drug and alcohol addictions, who are out of work, to gain and retain competitive employment. All service users will be voluntary and either receiving treatment, in recovery or previous users of the service.
Location
Country
- United Kingdom
Service delivery locations
- West London Boroughs (Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster)
Involved organisations
Configuration of contracting parties:
- Intermediated contract with payments made through SPV (investor backed)
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
- Hounslow CCG
- Harrow CCG
- Hillingdon CCG
- London Borough of Barnet
- London Borough of Brent
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- London Borough of Hounslow
- London Borough of Ealing
- London Borough of Harrow
- West London Job Centre Plus
- London Borough of Hillingdon
- West London CCG
- Barnet Job Centre Plus
- London Borough of Westminster
- Central London CCG
- Ealing CCG
- Brent Clinical Commissioning Group
Outcome metrics
- Metric 1: Engagement - Employment Specialist completion of three appointments with the Service User or when they have worked with the Service User to complete a vocational profile.
- Metric 2: Job starts - Service user starts paid employment and achieved within first day of employment. Evidence needed to be collected from the service user for verification which included typically employer-generated letter, 1st payslip or self-declaration.
- Metric 3: Job sustainment - Sustainment’s of a paid job are measured at 13 weeks at either under 16 hours or over 16 hours. Evidence needed to be collected for verification, which included pay slips, time slips or self declarations.
- Metric 4: Health improvements - An ‘Addictions patient reported outcomes questionnaire’ was completed at the start of the programme and at least 6 months after engagement for service users. A reduction is scores indicated increased health improvements. Developed by Kings College, the tool is a combination of Treatment Outcome Profiles (TOP) score and Substance Use Recovery Evaluator (SURE).
- Metric 5: Change is forecast healthcare usage costs - Innovative measure to find out whether forecast use of NHS services would be decreased by those using the IPS Service.
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