Supporting your practice
If you want support to practice brilliantly — to change how you do things in your team, service or organisation — we can help.
We take on paid projects in a range of sizes and subjects. If you aren’t sure exactly what help you need, or don’t see what you are looking for on the list please get in touch. We can tailor our services to what you need.
What's it like to work with Iriss?
We are a team of facilitators, coaches, designers and researchers with expertise and skills across design, social work, social care, change, implementation, systems reform, policy and practice improvement.
We prioritise relationship building, collaboration, knowledge sharing, curiosity and flexibility.
We understand that every organisation has its own set of challenges and we can work with you to develop a bespoke solution that meets your needs - whether using our innovation model, combining two products into a single service, or delivering a dedicated coaching session for your team.
Implementation group - ASP sub-group lead
"It has been invaluable to have Iriss alongside this work, helping with the direction and generally just supporting and moving the conversation and engagement forward in the sessions, as well as communicating the work to a wider audience"
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Coaching
Coaching is a collaborative, creative approach that provides you with the time and structure to learn, develop and find your own solutions to the challenges you face in your work.
Design
At Iriss we view design as an innovative problem solving process which can be used to address challenges in services, systems and processes, in addition to more familiar areas like communications, branding and look-and-feel.
Evidence, knowledge and data
We can help you gather and make better use of information, knowledge and evidence in your practice.
Facilitation
Facilitation is the act of helping other people to deal with an activity or reach an agreement or solution without getting directly involved in the process or discussion. High quality facilitation is key in supporting teams to work well together, to explore specific pieces of work or goals, and to identify and overcome challenges to shared objectives.
Innovation support
Our bespoke innovation support programme enables you and your organisation to understand the challenges you are facing, identify and take practical action, and stays alongside you to get those actions embedded into practice.
Research and evaluation
We do external evaluation and research to help you to explore the evidence or understand the impact of your work.
Research impact and engagement support
We help academics and researchers to increase the impact of their work. We do this by producing accessible, engaging and trusted resources aimed at busy practitioners and policy-makers, and by brokering relationships and engagement to help end siloed working.
Training
We offer bespoke and off-the-peg training in core aspects of social work and social care support including supervision, reflective practice, creating innovation cultures and streamlining systems.