IPS Team Leader

SHAW TRUST; Essex; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Volunteer leave

Enhanced pension

Life Assurance

Learning & development

Diversity networks

Health & wellbeing

Flexible working

Job summary

Shaw Trust is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to lead a team, providing training, mentoring, supervision and compliance to the IPS approach within an assigned Essex area.

You will drive referrals, engagement activity and employment outcomes, collaborating with Probation Services, Primary Care, Jobcentre Plus, Local Authorities and local partners to ensure integrated service delivery at community level.

Job description

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.

Purpose

To lead a team of IPS (Individual Placement Support) Employment Specialists providing training, mentoring, supervision, and compliance to the IPS approach. Resulting in the consistent delivery of quality service standards in a designated area, to ensure contract targets of: - referrals (starts on provision) engagement activity, employment outcomes and Fidelity delivery compliance. They will communicate with a range of key stakeholders including but not limited to: Probation Services (Mappa Participants & Ex-Offenders), Primary Care (GP's / health centres) /JCPs / Local Authority functions / Community services and other local partners, to ensure the provision is integrated at a local community level. The role will support the Service Manager in maximising service outcomes and work closely with the wider Shaw Trust IPS teams. The individual will hold overall accountability for collective KPI and Fidelity results of their designated area and will be expected to address any areas of underperformance in a proficient and timely manner.

Location

You will be working within the Essex Community. Areas of Delivery include Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castlepoint, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford, Southend, Tendring & Thurrock

Employee 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. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.