Main area: Employment Specialist - Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity Leave cover until 31 August 2025)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (1 x Full Time)
Job ref: 350-TWS6773780
Site: Brooker Centre
Town: Runcorn
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce.
Job overview
IPS Employment Specialist B5 – Permanent Posts
1 x full time 37.5 hours to cover maternity leave until 31 August 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Band 5 Employment Specialist for the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Service in Halton. The IPS service supports Mersey Care service users with severe and enduring mental health conditions who are under Community Mental Health and/or Early Intervention Teams and are looking for paid employment as part of their recovery journey.
The Employment Specialists will be expected to travel across an identified geographical patch for meetings with clinical teams and the staff who will be co-located there, with service users, and with local employers.
We would expect applicants to have demonstrable experience of supporting individuals into paid employment and to be confident in liaising with employers to gain access to work opportunities in the local area. Some prior knowledge of the IPS model would be advantageous.
Shortlisting Planned for- 25th November 2024
Interviews Planned for - 02 December 2024
Main duties of the job
The Employment Specialist will join an Individual Placement and Support Team (IPS) working under the direction of the IPS Employment Services Manager to deliver IPS as part of the holistic recovery plan for mental health service users.
The post holder will work directly with employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems, and subsequently provide ongoing support depending on employee’s and employer’s needs.
The Employment Specialists will be responsible for:
1. Managing a caseload of a maximum of 25 service users at any one time (full time posts) to support them into appropriate paid employment
2. Working directly with employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems
3. Providing ongoing support dependent upon employee and employer needs
4. Recording their daily activity in line with the IPS requirements
Additionally, the post holder will work directly with all relevant stakeholders: the service user, Employment Specialist colleagues, community staff, Consultant Psychiatrists and employers.
Person specification
* Educated to degree level or equivalent or demonstrable experience
* Level 3 Diploma in Employability Services Sector
* Trained in IPS Delivery Model
* NVQ level 3 in Care or Learning Disability related
* Knowledge and understanding of teaching principles
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working with people with complex mental health needs or a similar service user group
* Knowledge and experience of recovery and social inclusion principals
* Experience of utilising IT systems
* Understanding of employment and challenges/barriers for people with complex mental health needs
* Understanding of financial implications between benefits/pay structure and advising service user’s accordingly
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Ability to engage with employers across all industries using a variety of methods
* Ability to work unsupervised
* Ability to listen and make grounded judgements
* Ability to translate employer need into job seeker opportunity
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As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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