IPS Employment Specialist

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust; Alnwick; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health service provider is seeking a dedicated individual to join their IPS Employment Support Service in Alnwick. The role involves working closely with individuals experiencing mental health challenges, local businesses, and healthcare professionals to facilitate employment opportunities. This full-time, permanent position requires travel across the North East and Northumberland, offering a dynamic work environment that rewards creativity and compassion.

Benefits

Dynamic working environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills for building relationships.
• Ability to engage and support individuals with mental health challenges.

Responsibilities

• Provide employment support to people accessing mental health services.
• Build relationships with local businesses and healthcare professionals.
• Adapt support to maximize the chances of achieving employment.

Job description

Overview

The IPS Employment Support Service focuses on three specific groups of people:

• People accessing Secondary Care mental health services who would like advice or support regarding employment.
• Local businesses who employ people.
• Healthcare professionals working within CNTW.

As a member of the IPS Service you will work extremely closely with the above three groups, actively engaging and building strong, professional relationships with all three. Actively listening and learning from people, adapting your practice and individualising your support to maximise the chances that:

1. People using our service achieve their employment ambitions and benefit from the improved physical and mental health associated with good employment.
2. Local employers are supported to meet and retain talented, highly skilled people who may otherwise have difficulty attaining or retaining employment due to their health conditions.
3. Healthcare professionals across CNTW are supported to understand the IPS offer, know how to access or refer to us and work closely with us to support people achieve their employment and recovery goals.

If you answered yes to those three questions, we would like to hear from you!

The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Service is a specialist employment support service that works across the length and breadth of CNTW NHS Foundation Trust.

We provide evidence-based, NICE-recommended employment support to people who experience serious mental health problems, helping make career ambitions a reality.

We are delighted to be recruiting to our Northumberland IPS team, and have one full-time, permanent position available. This post will be based in the Alnwick area however the post holder will be expected to travel across the North East and Northumberland to meet the needs of our service users.

CNTW aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

The CNTW IPS Service have supported hundreds of people secure paid and retain employment that has helped them thrive! We\'re fantastic to work for and can guarantee an exciting and varied role that rewards creativity and an action-orientated attitude.