Commissioning Successful Employment Services

  • Employment outcomes will be one of the key measures in a payment by results (PBR) model for IAPT. A data set, which collects relevant employment outcomes in order to inform this process, is currently in development. Going forward, these items will provide a clear method with which to measure success of IAPT employment interventions. Until then, commissioners may be interested in a previously published data set (see Annex 5 of Realising the Benefits) which is currently being used as a successful tool for collecting employment outcomes across London IAPT sites: Employment Advice and Employment Support in Co-ordination in IAPT Service Design Principles

  • Service delivery models of employment support within IAPT will vary according to local needs, but there are a number of key design principles which may be helpful in designing these models: read more in the Commissioning pages