IPS Employment Specialist

Shaw Trust; Essex; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

2 days volunteering leave

Enhanced pension

Life Assurance

Learning & development opportunities

Diversity networks

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working from day one

Job summary

Shaw Trust in Essex is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to help clients with mental health support needs and ex-offenders secure sustainable paid employment. You will manage a caseload and work with health professionals, service providers and employers to remove barriers to work.

This community-based, peripatetic role may involve travel across Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester and surrounding areas. A performance-focused position with clear targets is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in employment support or social inclusion is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Help clients with mental health support needs and ex-offenders secure sustainable paid employment.
• Manage a caseload and coordinate with health professionals, service providers and employers.

Job description

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation.

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco‑system of purpose‑led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Purpose

Working with clients, health professionals, service providers and employers, as an IPS Employment Specialist you will be focused on making sure a person's journey into employment, with associated improved social inclusion and wellbeing is as easy as possible. You will work with clients (managing a caseload) who have mental health support needs and ex‑offenders, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences

This is a performance‑focused role, with clear targets aligned to our contractual commitments.

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Location

This is a community‑based (peripatetic) role in the Essex area. Delivery areas include: Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castlepoint, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford & Tendring.

Employee Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women's Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

• We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
• We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.
• Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: (url removed)

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

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