IPS services in Norway have expanded significantly since 2013, with over 200 job specialists now serving clients through 91 IPS programs. The supervisor plays a key role in linking the IPS program to partner organizations, overseeing job specialists, and ensuring program fidelity. Implementing IPS programs presents challenges around integration into health services and cooperation between sectors, but outcomes include more clients gaining employment and improved collaboration between health and labor services.

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Lars Georg Sveinsen- Supervisor- IPS Oslo Vest/ Camilla Kötterheinrich- Regional Advisor IPS,
IPS- Individual Placement and support
IPS- Individual Placement and support
Agenda:
 IPS in Norway 2013-2021
 IPS principles
 Supervisors role
 Experiences of implementing IPS
- challenges and outcomes

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IPS in Norway
IPS in Norway
2013:
- 8 pilots
- 20 Job Specialists
2020:
- 91 IPS services
- 208 Job Specialists
- 5 Regional resource centers
- 2 Regional Advisors
- Dir. of health, 45 NOK.
- Dir. of labour and welfare, 75 NOK

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IPS in Norway
IPS in Norway
2021:
- 180 NOK
- IPS Young
- 13 Regional Advisors
40 – 50 % of patients back to work

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IPS Oslo West
IPS Oslo West
IPS Oslo West (the biggest IPS service in Oslo)
- Located at Diakonhjemmet hospital
- Cooperation between local labour and welfare services
- Population 130 000
- Psychiatric section, adults and adolesence
- 2013: 2 Job Specialists, 0.5 Project manager, 4 health teams
- 2021: 2 IPS teams, 10 Job Specialists, 2 Supervisors,
2 Regional IPS trainer, 11 health teams,
IPS Regional resource center Oslo

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IPS Principles
IPS Principles
1. Focus on Competitive Employment
2. Eligibility Based on Client Choice
3. Integration of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services
4. Attention to Worker Preferences
5. Personalized Benefits Counseling
6. Rapid Job Search
7. Systematic Job Development
8. Time-Unlimited and Individualized Support

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Supervisor Role- key
Supervisor Role- key
Effective Supervisors are the key to successful IPS services!
Supervisor functions:
- Link to the labour and welfare organization
- Link to the leaders of both organizations
- Organizer/participant of the steering group
- Spokesperson for work-related services in the organizations
- Responsible for quality improvement for IPS services (performance-
based management)
- Co-responsible for implementing IPS and operating the service
- Supervisor of the Job Specialists
- Co-responsible for recruiting new Job Specialists

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What does the fidelity scale say regarding the
Supervisor role?
What does the fidelity scale say regarding the
Supervisor role?
Supervisor:
1. is responsible for no more than 10 employment specialists.
2. conducts weekly supervision
3. communicates with mental health team leaders to ensure that services
are integrated
4. accompanies employment specialists, who are new or having difficulty
with job development in the field
5. reviews current client outcomes with employment specialists and sets
goals to improve program performance at least quarterly.

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Implementing IPS
Implementing IPS
Challenges:
- Integration in health
- cooperation labour and health services
- uncertain finance
- Building robust IPS teams
- Legal issues

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Implementing IPS
Implementing IPS
Outcomes:
- people gets jobs!
- work becomes a treatment focus in treatment (integrated
services)
- integration in society and reduction of symptoms
- health and labour services are able to work together in
other areas
However, it takes hard, dedicated and continuous work:-)