Employ-Ability is a specialist employment support charity working with people experiencing mental ill health.
- Our mission is to help people with mental ill health to get into and keep employment, in South and West Essex, and West Suffolk.
- We work in the best interests of our users by mentoring, encouraging, and supporting them to achieve their full potential in their working lives.
- We champion good mental health in the workplace by working in partnership with employers to assist them to provide support for our clients.
Our Individual Placement and Support Service is for those receiving secondary mental health care. The processes involved are designed to:
- Identify personal employment preferences and produce a plan/CV.
- Identify specific support needs to help with ensuring a good job match.
- Determine if the client is willing to disclose their mental ill health and have us contact employers on their behalf.
- With permission identify suitable employment opportunities and discuss job match details with the employer.
- If preferred provide support at a distance with job search, applications and interviews.
- Ensure that financially the client will be better off in work.
- Once placed provide ongoing support for as long as is required.
With our partners, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, we are a Centre of Excellence for our IPS service. This means we offer an unrivalled level of expertise and experience.
We deliver our Individual Placement and Support services in;
- West Essex; including Uttlesford, Stansted, Harlow, Epping, Waltham Abbey, Great Dunmow and Loughton
- South Essex; including, Basildon, Brentwood, Wickford, Castlepoint and Rochford including Rayleigh and Canvey Island
- West Suffolk; West Suffolk including Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Mildenhall, Brandon, Sudbury and Haverhill
- Southend
*Please note that we do not take self-referrals for our IPS service, however, we do take self-referrals for our Job Retention service – you can find the referral form on our Job Retention page.
