Employment Specialist - Connect to Work, CHM

Guardian Jobs; North Tyneside; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Jobs in North Tyneside is recruiting an Employment Specialist to support people to secure and sustain meaningful work using the IPS model. You’ll work with a multi-disciplinary team to provide tailored information, advice and guidance to a caseload of around 25 clients, helping them overcome barriers and access opportunities.

The role emphasizes building strong employer links, coordinating with health providers and partners to ensure joined-up support, and maintaining thorough

Qualifications

• Experience delivering IPS-based employment support.
• Ability to engage with diverse clients, including those with health or disability barriers.
• Proven ability to build and maintain employer relationships within IPS framework.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred information, advice and guidance to a caseload of around 25 clients.
• Develop and sustain relationships with employers to source suitable opportunities.
• Collaborate with health providers, mental health services and JCP to ensure integrated support.
• Maintain accurate participant paperwork and CRM records to reflect tailored support and progress.

Skills

IPS model

Client caseload

Employer relationships

Clear communication

CRM documentation

Job description

Do you want to make a real difference by supporting people to stay in work, and overcome challenges?

Job Title: Employment Specialist – Connect To Work

Salary: £28,951 - £32,316 per annum

Hours: Full Time – 37 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location(s): North Tyneside

About The Employer:

Our client is a long-established environmental and community charity with over 30 years of experience creating greener, healthier and more resilient places across the region. Their mission centres on Creating Better Places, Improving People’s Prospects, and Promoting Greener Living, helping communities thrive no matter the challenges they face.

This charity delivers hundreds of locally-led projects each year, including initiatives that support young people into education, training and employment, helping them overcome barriers, build life skills, and reach their full potential.

About The Role:

The organisation is recruiting for an Employment Specialist – Connect To Work in North Tyneside.

They are seeking a motivated and passionate Employment Specialist to support people across North Tyneside to secure and sustain meaningful employment. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will provide personalised employment support to individuals facing barriers to work, including those with mental health conditions, disabilities, long-term health conditions, or other complex needs.

You will work closely with employers, health professionals, community services, and local partners to create opportunities that enable people to achieve their employment goals. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who believes in the positive impact that good work can have on people's health, wellbeing, confidence, and independence.

Job Purpose:

Using the Individual Placement & Support (IPS) model, you’ll provide person-centred information, advice and guidance to a caseload of around 25 clients, helping them access, return to, and sustain employment that is right for them.

You’ll also build strong employer relationships to source suitable opportunities and work closely with partners, including health providers, mental health services, JCP and other employment organisations, to ensure clients receive joined-up support.

The employer is looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about supporting people in North Tyneside to access, return to, or sustain meaningful employment.
• A strong communicator, confident engaging with people, and referral partners and health care professionals.
• Equipped with strong analytical and problem-solving ability, able to assess needs and identify effective employment solutions.
• Skilled at building and maintaining strong employer relationships in line with the IPS and Connect to Work model, creating opportunities that support people to move into, return to, or sustain meaningful employment.
• Experienced at maintaining detailed participant paperwork and CRM records that demonstrate a person-centred, empathetic and proactive approach, evidencing tailored support and a genuine commitment to helping participants succeed.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage a varied caseload and meet deadlines.
• Experienced in demonstrating the IPS Place, Train and Maintain approach through participant paperwork and CRM records, evidencing timely job search activity, personalised in-work support, ongoing engagement, and interventions designed to help participants obtain and sustain employment.

Closing Date: Friday, 25th September 2026

Please note, should the employer receive a high volume of applications, they may look to close the role early, therefore they recommend an early application.

This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This employer wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your difference and together you make this a special and great place to work.

As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

This organisation ensures that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.