IPS Employment Specialist

Shaw Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave per year (plus 2-

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance at 3x annual salary

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working from day one

Job summary

Shaw Trust is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to help people with mental health support needs move toward and sustain paid employment. You will work with participants, health professionals and employers, delivering the IPS model with person-centred guidance and tailoring support to goals and strengths.

You will manage your own caseload, build employer relationships, and contribute to outcomes such as job starts and sustained employment.

Job description

As an IPS Employment Specialist, you'll play a vital role in helping people with mental health support needs move closer to, secure and sustain meaningful paid employment. Working closely with participants, health professionals, service providers and local employers, you'll make the journey into work as smooth and accessible as possible, supporting individuals to improve not only their employment outcomes but also their confidence, wellbeing and social inclusion. Managing your own caseload, you'll deliver the nationally recognised Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model, providing person-centred guidance tailored to each individual's goals, strengths and aspirations. You'll build strong relationships with employers across the local area, creating opportunities and matching participants with roles that align with their preferences and ambitions. This is a rewarding and performance-focused role where you'll contribute to ambitious programme outcomes, including participant engagement, job starts and sustained employment. Full training in the IPS model will be provided, equipping you to deliver support across every stage of the employment journey, from outreach and vocational profiling through to action planning, job searching, employer engagement, job placement, workplace coaching and ongoing in-work support. Guided by the IPS Fidelity Scale and its evidence-based principles, you'll help transform lives by empowering people to achieve lasting employment and greater independence.

"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.

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following benefits

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.