IPS Team Leader

Prospects; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Shaw Trust in the West Midlands is seeking an IPS Team Leader to guide a team of IPS Employment Specialists who support clients seeking work and employers needing their talents.

You will supervise, mentor and train staff to meet fidelity standards and targets, lead fidelity audits, and collaborate with health partners and local stakeholders to embed IPS within clinical services and strengthen partnerships across the community.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams delivering IPS services.
• Knowledge of IPS fidelity standards and contractual targets.
• Ability to supervise, mentor and train staff.
• Experience working with health partners and local stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of IPS Employment Specialists to support individuals seeking work and the employers who need their talents.
• Provide supervision, mentoring and training to ensure your team consistently meets IPS fidelity standards and contractual targets.
• Lead your team through Fidelity audits both internal and external.
• Collaborate with health partners and local stakeholders to embed IPS within clinical services and strengthen community partnerships.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Fidelity standards

Mentoring

Employment support

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

As an IPS Team Leader, you will lead a team of IPS Employment Specialists who you will support individuals seeking work and the employers who need their talents. The employment specialists will manage a caseload of clients, providing tailored, one-to-one support to help them find, and keep, jobs that align with their individual goals and aspirations.

As an IPS Team Leader, you will provide supervision, mentoring, and training to ensure your team consistently meets IPS fidelity standards and contractual targets. You will lead with accountability, ensuring your team consistently delivers strong outcomes. You will also lead your team through Fidelity audits both internal and external. Working closely with health partners and local stakeholders, you will help embed IPS within clinical services and strengthen community partnerships.

This is a performance-focused role, with clear targets around referrals, job starts, and sustained employment. But more than that, it’s about changing lives.

Location

You will be based in Walsall. This is a community-based role. You’ll work peripatetically across Walsall supporting clients where they are.

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.

• 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.

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