IPS Employment Specialist - Help People Get Back to Work

IPS Grow; Ware; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to support people with severe mental illness in East Hertfordshire to secure paid work. You’ll manage a caseload of up to 25, provide rapid job search, build employer links and ensure appropriate workplace adjustments.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary Community Team, delivering evidence-based IPS and coordinating with external agencies to promote successful employment outcomes.

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent.
• IPS trained
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• Additional relevant training in employment, mental health, coaching
• Job Retention Training
• Considerable experience of working with adults with MH difficulties in a health or social care setting
• Significant experience working in a role delivering employment support
• Supervision of junior staff
• Experience of partnership working, negotiation and liaison with other agencies
• Knowledge of disability and special needs issues, policies and legislation in relation to employment
• Understanding of the principles and practice of IPS
• Knowledge of employment law
• Team orientated and work collaboratively within a mixed-disciplinary team
• Experience of partnership working, negotiation and liaison work with other agencies
• Experience of opening up job opportunities with a range of employers
• Ability to work with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to build rapport with a range of people
• Ability to provide and receive sensitive information regarding services users care and social situation
• Ability to negotiate and persuade appropriately prospective employers of benefits of offering work opportunities to Service Users.
• Active listening skills, ability to ask perceptive questions that tease out important information .

Responsibilities

• Carry a caseload of service users with severe mental illness who are currently off work / unemployed, receiving specialist mental health services and who wish to return to work.
• Focus on rapid job search with the service user, while using local support networks to overcome barriers to employment.
• Source job opportunities for service users through tailored job search and regular contact with employers.
• When placing service users with employers, explore quality of work environments and potential for workplace adjustments.
• Develop effective working relationships with external agencies to help individuals achieve employment goals.
• Provide education and support to employers, including negotiating adjustments and return-to-work strategies.
• Provide individualised support to service users after returning to work to maintain employment.
• Meet and exceed job outcome targets for service users

Skills

Active listening

Rapport building

Negotiation

Teamwork

Education

Degree level or equivalent

IPS trained

Training in employment, mental health, coaching

Job Retention Training

Experience with adults with MH difficulties

Experience delivering employment support

Supervision of junior staff

Partnerships with agencies

Knowledge of disability and employment law

IPS principles

IT tools: MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to support people with severe mental illness in East Hertfordshire to secure paid work. You’ll manage a caseload of up to 25, provide rapid job search, build employer links and ensure appropriate workplace adjustments.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary Community Team, delivering evidence-based IPS and coordinating with external agencies to promote successful employment outcomes.