IPS Employment Specialist

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Bank holidays

Free car parking

Annual appraisal

Health service discounts

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Employment Specialist to join the Employment Support Service in Chesterfield & Killamarsh. You will work within a CMHT to help clients on mental health recovery access and sustain paid employment using IPS approaches.

You'll build relationships with local employers, support clients with career planning, CVs, interview techniques, and in-work support, while ensuring integration with care and recovery plans.

Qualifications

• Experience advising on employment within mental health or IPS settings.
• Ability to identify suitable job matches and support career planning.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to record data accurately and collaborate with teams.

Responsibilities

• Support and motivate individuals to access and sustain paid employment.
• Meet with clients to identify best job match and assist with CV and interview techniques.
• Provide in-work support and return-to-work planning.
• Educate employers about IPS and source job opportunities.
• Collaborate with CMHT to integrate employment support into care.

Skills

IPS knowledge

Employment advisory experience

Mental health understanding

Communication skills

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Employment Support Service as an Employment Specialist in Chesterfield & Killamarsh

This is a opportunity to support people receiving mental health services to achieve their employment goals through the Individual Placement and Support model.

As an Employment Specialist, you will be embedded within a CMHT and work alongside clinical colleagues to support individuals to identify, secure and retain employment that matches their aspirations, strengths and preferences.

A understanding of recovery-focused practice, vocational rehabilitation or employment support would be advantageous.

You will manage a caseload of clients and work directly with them to understand their strengths, skills and career goals. Using IPS principles, you will support individuals with every stage of their employment journey, from career planning and job searching through to interview preparation, in work support and career development.

You will work collaboratively with members of the CMHT, ensuring employment support is fully integrated into recovery planning and care provision.

A key part of the role involves developing relationships with local employers and understanding local labour market opportunities.

Main duties of the job

What is a Mental Health IPS Employment Specialist?

This is an exciting and dynamic role, where no one 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 needs to access and sustain paid employment.
• Regularly meeting with clients to listen, help them identify their best job match, reflecting on their skills and aspirations, providing support including CV production, interview techniques
• Provide in-work support, assessing each client's work-related needs, designing a return-to-work strategy, and ensuring job retention with ongoing contact.
• 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.
• Work as part of the Derbyshire Healthcare mental health team to promote employment and raise expectations around the ability of service users to access paid employment, breaking down the barriers for them.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service pro rata for part time
• Free car parking
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an individual who is passionate in joining us to develop the service and transforms someones life. This role calls for empathy and 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. Alongside having strong and persuasive communication skills, excellent time management, and exceptional IT and administration skills.

It is essential, to have experience of working with people with mental health support needs or similar groups, OR experience working in employment support services or equivalent, including working with people on a one-to-one basis, offering motivation and support.

We are also actively interested in individuals with transferrable skills for this role such as experience in using a persuasive communication style, data collection, motivational interviewing or promoting a service to a variety of audiences, this can include, but not limited to, coaching, recruitment, sales, education, training, mentoring, or sales roles.

Person Specification

Experience/Knowledge

• Employment advisory experience
• Understanding of the impact of work as a recovery tool
• Working knowledge of IPS
• Experience of working with people with mental health problems implementing individual programmes and interventions
• Experience of working with employers and DWP
• Able to work autonomously
• IPS training
• Mental health knowledge
• Employability experience
• Supporting disadvantaged people into employment
• Accurately recording data
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent presentation skills

Skills

• Enthusiasm & understanding towards supporting people with mental health problems find employment
• Engage service users towards vocational goals
• Strong administrator
• Ability to plan and prioritise
• People person who builds rapport
• Understands the importance of audits
• Full UK Driving Licence & Access to a vehicle
• Able to build rapport
• Record data in a timely manner
• Uses tools for organisation
• Understanding of MH services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum, pro rata