IPS Employment Specialist - Gosport

Shaw Trust; Gosport; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A social purpose organisation in Gosport seeks an IPS Employment Specialist to assist clients with mental health support needs in securing sustainable employment. You will manage a caseload and deliver personalised support while collaborating with local employers. The role requires excellent communication skills and a passion for improving lives, with numerous benefits including annual leave, enhanced pension, and health initiatives.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance at 3x salary

Paid volunteering leave

Learning and development opportunities

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships with clients and employers.
• Experience working in mental health or a related field is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of clients with mental health support needs.
• Deliver IPS approach and work collaboratively with local employers.
• Guide clients through every stage of their employment journey.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Organizational skills

Job description

Overview

Working with clients, health professionals, service providers and employers, IPS Employment Specialists are 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, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences. Your role will be to deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach (for which training will be given), providing person centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

Additional Context

You will work as part of a primary care network, community mental health team and/or early intervention psychosis team or Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) team, maintaining positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.

Key Attributes

As an IPS Employment Specialist, you will need to be an able communicator, passionate about getting it right and focused on transforming individual lives through sustainable solutions.

Responsibilities

You will work with people on their individual employment journey from vocational profiling to the point where they no longer require face to face in work support. The six key stages on a typical journey are: outreach/referral; vocational profiling; action planning; job search activities (including working on a one-to-one basis with employers to match people with appropriate employment); job placement and coordinating support whilst in employment; managing withdrawal of support as the in work support is no longer required.

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

Diversity and Inclusion

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. 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. 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.