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iAPT Ltd (Ixion Applied Psychology & Technology Ltd)
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How does it help?
iAPT Ltd’s “Welfare Applied Positive Psychology” is a Welfare to Work advisor course with online support, developed to enable welfare advisors to greatly improve “Into Work” and “Sustained Employment” outcomes.
www.MyWorkSearch.co.uk provides the technical solution for clients to develop their CV, learn from tutorials and videos and access c. 900 job search web sites.
For Ixion staff, MyWorkSearch provides a dashboard to track clients activity between meetings and manage job outcomes effectively.
iAPT provides crucial staff training in positive psychology and motivation management, using 6 key interventions, that have been combined from world wide best practice.
The four building blocks of the course have been developed by iAPT Ltd, and has been drawn from over 30 books, 70 psychological research papers (some yet unpublished) and correspondence with some of the Worlds pre-eminent scientists in the field (eg Seligman, Grant, Huppert, Biswas-Diener etc.). It has been created to enable non-psychologists to use cutting-edge techniques, contextualised to the Welfare to Work marketplace, to improve outcomes for providers and their clients.
Welfare sector providers have budget pressures upon innovation & staff training. However the ones that aspire to be leaders in performance face urgent demands which WAPP can satisfy:
- Maximises unemployed client engagement and capacity to change.
- Changes clients’ mindset and mental toughness to improve ‘into work’ outcomes.
- Improves employment advisors’ competence, communication & effectiveness.
- Reduces staff “burn-out”.
- Enhances staff cohesiveness, particularly following TUPE-transfer periods.
- Helps staff, clients and government departments to thrive.
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Journal of Occupational Psychology, Employment and Disability (2010)
An overview of solutions-focused techniques (one of the components of WAPP) and their application, as researched by DWP in an “employment agency intervention” context (78% of clients completed this voluntary course):
“Customers taking part reported significantly decreased anxiety and depression, more positive about the skills they have, more positive about being able to present themselves to an employer and more positive about their ability to sustain work.”
For further information please send an e-mail to Darren Coppin.