IPS Employment Specialist: Get People into Paid Work

IPS Grow; Harlow; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Get Set UK is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist in Essex to help individuals move from conversation to meaningful paid employment. You will travel daily between clinical, community and employer locations across Essex, managing your own caseload and diary, and working toward sustained employment outcomes.

No IPS experience is required as full training is provided. You will engage NHS clinical teams, build employer relationships, and support people to turn aspirations into active job searches.

Qualifications

• Experience providing one-to-one advice, guidance or practical support to adults or young adults with evidence of helping people towards clear outcomes.
• Evidence of building trust, motivating people and keeping professional boundaries.
• Experience managing a caseload, appointments or competing priorities, with accurate records and reliable follow-through.
• Confidence communicating with different people and professionals, and a willingness to approach employers and build new relationships.
• A track record of working towards outcomes or targets, with results to show, and continuing when progress is difficult.
• Evidence of commitment, reliability and consistently high standards of work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital case-management systems, and ability to learn new ones.
• Ability to explain your last five years of employment, including gaps or short-term roles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver results: you review your own progress, and when a job search stalls you own it, work out why and change your approach.
• People and Communication: you encourage people to take their own next step and keep every conversation clear, respectful and caring.
• Get it right: you are honest, follow established practice, ask a colleague for another view when needed and learn from setbacks without getting defensive.
• Strategic direction: you build effective relationships and try a new approach when the usual one meets a no.
• Working with each person to build a vocational profile, get job ready and turn what they want into an active job search.
• Working as part of an NHS clinical team, attending multidisciplinary meetings and sharing wellbeing and risk concerns.
• Approaching employers directly, understanding what they need and finding advertised and hidden opportunities.
• Helping people stay in work, including people already employed who are struggling, working with their employer where they agree.

Skills

One-to-one coaching

Building trust

Caseload management

Communication with professionals

Outcome-driven

Reliability and professionalism

MS Office

Digital case-management systems

Tools

Microsoft Office

Digital case-management systems

Job description

Get Set UK is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist in Essex to help individuals move from conversation to meaningful paid employment. You will travel daily between clinical, community and employer locations across Essex, managing your own caseload and diary, and working toward sustained employment outcomes.

No IPS experience is required as full training is provided. You will engage NHS clinical teams, build employer relationships, and support people to turn aspirations into active job searches.