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Site K&C CMHH - Hathaway House Town Various locations Salary £35,964 - £43,780 per annum (pro rata P/T) inc HCAS (dependant on location) Salary period Yearly Closing 12/01/2025 23:59 Interview date 26/01/2025
Job overview
IPS Employment Specialist
As an IPS Employment Specialist you will play a vital role in helping people with mental health needs find meaningful and fulfilling employment. You’ll receive all the training and support you need to take on the role, develop your skills, and have access to a broad range of opportunities. Joining a passionate and driven team, you’ll be working towards creating a fairer and more inclusive society for people with mental health needs.
We welcome applications from all experience levels and backgrounds. What you will need is the ability to motivate and build relationships with service users, strong organisational skills, the confidence to communicate and engage with a range of employers, and a fundamental belief that anyone with a mental health condition can work.
Your application and supporting statement will form part of the assessment process so please ensure you tailor your statement to the Employment Specialist role.
Main duties of the job
What is an IPS Employment Specialist?
This is a rewarding and dynamic role where no day is the same and you’ll be making a genuine difference to people’s lives. Using the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model you’ll be:
* Supporting and motivating individuals with mental health conditions to access and sustain paid employment.
* Regularly meeting with clients to listen, offer support and help them identify their best job match, reflecting their skills and aspirations.
* Supporting the clients through CV production, interview techniques and managing their health at work.
* Advocating for your clients by educating and engaging with employers regarding the IPS service.
* Sourcing job opportunities for your clients through regular contact with local employers within the community.
* Promoting employment and raising expectations around the ability of service users to access paid employment, breaking down the barriers for them.
Working for our organisation
Working for Central North West London NHS Trust
You will also be part of the Trustwide Employment Services Team which comprises of over 40 people.
You will receive a number of staff benefits working for CNWL Trust, this includes an attractive pension scheme, a range of staff networks, travel discounts, employee assistance programme and discounts at hundreds of retailers nationwide.
This role is an excellent opportunity to start a long-term career within the mental health sector, develop your skills and a gateway to the vast number of opportunities within CNWL.
Apply today to become an IPS Employment Specialist and make a real difference!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Who are we looking for?
You will need either a degree-level education or relevant work experience, such as in the health and social care or employment sectors. Alongside having strong and persuasive communication skills, excellent time management and exceptional organisational skills. Also, the ability to initiate and develop relationships with a variety of individuals and be able to engage employers using a variety of methods such as via the telephone or face-to-face in the community.
It would also be helpful, but NOT essential, if you have experience of working with people with mental health support needs (or similar groups) OR have experience working in employment support services (or equivalent), this can include working with people on a one-to-one basis, offering motivation and support, or engaging with a range of stakeholders. We are actively interested in individuals who have experience using a persuasive communication style or promoting a service to a variety of audiences, this can include marketing, recruitment, or sales roles.
Person specification
* Experience of communicating and working with people on a one-to-one basis
* Experience of working within diverse communities.
* Experience of building relationships and communicating with a range of different partners/organisations
* Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties or a similar client group within the health, social services, or voluntary sector
* Experience of supporting people to obtain or keep work
* Experience and knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability/ employment related benefits
Skills, knowledge and abilities
* A commitment to learning about and working within the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model
* Good verbal and written communication skills.
* Good presentation, negotiation, and marketing skills.
* Ability to initiate and develop relationships with employers and other agencies whilst being astute to their needs.
* Ability to engage with employers using a variety of methods such as face to face contact, social media, phone, and email.
* Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently
* Working knowledge of a broad range of occupations and jobs.
* Basic word processing/computing skills
* Excellent time management and organisational skills
* An understanding of the principles and practices of supported employment or the IPS model.
* An understanding of the Equality Act 2010.
* An understanding of the employment needs and difficulties of people who experience mental health challenges
* Basic counselling and coaching skills.
* Ability to provide vocational assessments and profiling.
* Ability to see solutions rather than problems.
* Ability to work in strength-based ways.
* Willingness to participate in supervision.
* Ability to work independently of direct supervision
Education and Qualifications
* Educated to a degree level (in any sector) OR equivalent workplace experience, this can include one or more of the below: • Experience within the health and social care sector. • Experience within employment support services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Stefania Altavilla Job title K&C IPS Employment Services Team Lead Email address stefania.altavilla@nhs.net Telephone number 07542 029787
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