IPS Employment Specialist

Get Set UK Group; Essex; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading employment support organization in the UK is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to help individuals with mental health conditions find and sustain real employment. This role involves delivering a model of support that focuses on rapid job searching and building relationships with local employers. Candidates with backgrounds in mental health or community services who are proactive and relationship-driven are encouraged to apply. Full training will be provided, and the role aims to change lives through meaningful work.

Benefits

Wellbeing support including GP and counselling

Discounts and pension options

Enhanced benefits with service

Opportunities for progression

Qualifications

• Background or strong interest in mental health services.
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain calm.
• Willingness to accept targets and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IPS model to support individuals with mental health conditions.
• Conduct vocational profiling and rapid job searches.
• Provide in-work support post job start.

Skills

Mental health knowledge

Relationship building

Organizational skills

Accountability

Proactivity

Job description

Do you want a career where you support people with mental health needs into real, paid employment, quickly and ethically?

This is not classroom employability. This is frontline, evidence-based IPS delivery, changing lives through work. As an IPS Employment Specialist, you will deliver the nationally recognised IPS model supporting people with mental health conditions into open employment, with a strong focus on rapid job search, employer partnership and sustained outcomes.

You will work alongside:

• Clinical and NHS teams
• Wellbeing services
• Local employers

Your work will be guided every day by our values:

• Be Ambitious - for every person's working future
• Be Proud - of quality, safety and results
• Be Considerate - of lived mental health experience
• Own It - take responsibility for outcomes
• Be Inspiring - help people believe work is possible

This is fast-moving, relationship-driven supported employment. You will:

• Carry out vocational profiling with people experiencing mental ill health
• Deliver rapid job search based on individual preference
• Build trusted relationships with local employers
• Match people into paid work aligned to their goals
• Prepare participants for - Disclosure, Interviews, Workplace expectations
• Provide intensive in-work support after job start
• Work closely with clinical teams to manage risk and wellbeing
• Track job starts, sustainment and progression
• Maintain high-quality, fidelity-compliant case records
• Your focus is speed with integrity - the right job, at the right time, in the right way.

Who This Role Is For

This role suits people with backgrounds or strong interest in:

• Mental health services
• Wellbeing or recovery support
• Social care or community services
• Recruitment or resourcing
• Sales with a strong people focus

You will thrive if you:

• Are confident working with mental health complexity
• Are proactive and relationship-driven
• Are comfortable with targets and accountability
• Are organised and evidence-focused
• Can balance pace with care and professionalism
• Take pride in structure, consistency and outcomes

Full IPS training and fidelity guidance will be provided. This Is a Specialist, High-Impact Role You will work with people who may:

• Have fluctuating mental health
• Experience anxiety, depression or severe mental illness
• Move quickly from readiness to job start
• Need high-touch support after entering work

We are looking for people who:

• Work at pace without cutting corners
• Can build trust quickly
• Stay calm under pressure
• Are resilient, reflective and outcome-focused
• This role is demanding - and genuinely life-changing.

Why Join Get Set UK?

Because you'll be part of a mission-driven organisation that invests in your growth and celebrates your impact.

You’ll get:

• Wellbeing support including GP, counselling and Headspace
• Discounts, pension and salary sacrifice options
• Enhanced benefits with service
• A culture built on ambition, pride, ownership and support
• Real opportunities for progression

We are also a proud Disability Confident Employer. Adjustments are available at every stage.

If you’re ready to Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Own It and Be Inspiring, and you want a role where your work genuinely changes lives, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply Now!

If you are ready to support people into work through evidence-based mental health employment and you live our values to Be Ambitious, Be Proud, BeC onsiderate, Own It and Be Inspiring, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today!

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We reserve the right to close applications early. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and welcome all applications. Get Set UK is an Equal Opportunity Employer, offering employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, physical and mental disability, age, citizenship, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, and any other protected status. Our aim is to support and maintain the physical and mental health of all people at work.

If you do need any reasonable adjustments as part of your application and recruitment process, please let us know at the outset and we will work hard to provide the right solution for you.

This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners/clients and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful appointment to this role will require satisfactory completion of recruitment checks.

Get Set UK does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Recruitment Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Get Set UK will consider these CVs as gifts and will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.