LD Employment Team Leader | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider based in Enfield is seeking an Employment Team Leader to manage an innovative team that supports adults with learning disabilities in finding employment. You will be responsible for developing community relationships, ensuring successful job placements, and conducting financial assessments. The role offers a chance to empower vulnerable individuals while emphasizing equality and opportunity in the workplace. This position comes with flexible working options, NHS benefits, and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams aimed at supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• Strong understanding of individual employment needs and job placement strategies.
• Ability to work collaboratively with social care and health teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Equals Employment Team to assist adults with Learning Disabilities in finding paid employment.
• Collaborate with employers to create job opportunities and support plans.
• Conduct financial assessments and provide guidance on benefits related to employment.

Skills

Team management

Client assessment

Community engagement

Employment support

Financial awareness

Job description

Overview

As Employment Team Leader your role will be to support and develop a strong and innovative employment team to enable Adults with Learning Disabilities living in Enfield to gain person centred valued worker roles, allowing for Employment for All regardless of Disability. You will have responsibility to co-ordinate & evidence the provision of mainly LD employment services into the community.

As a clinician you will provide a comprehensive and effective assessment and treatment service to your complex caseload. You will be required to provide specialist intervention primarily in the community.

As an OT in Equals – employment for all is the goal. Using personalised interventions, employer relationships and partnerships, to support those with learning difficulties and long-term conditions (pan-disability).

The ILDS provides health and social care to adults with learning disabilities living in Enfield. The service consists of health and social care staff which include social work, community nursing, speech and language therapists, arts therapists, psychology, psychiatry and specialists’ teams including Equals employment team.

The role aims to bridge the gap and empower equal opportunities for employment for those vulnerable individuals with learning disabilities. As a core principle in OT is ‘Equality’ this is our ethos in the Equals department of the Integrated Learning Disabilities team (ILDS) of Enfield.

Responsibilities

• To manage the day to day running of the Equals Employment Team to get adults with Learning Disabilities living in Enfield into paid Employment
• To work with Employers to identify suitable job roles, job carving and making reasonable adjustments in the workplace along with risk assessments and support plans, enabling successful placement and maintenance of employment
• Using a strength based, person-centred approach to identify client skills, support systems required and valued work placements
• To work with Assessment and Care management to ensure employment goals are reviewed and met. Ensuring the team review all Equals only package clients are reviewed annually.
• To work creatively with the team to maximise employment opportunities for people with disabilities who are furthest from the job market enabling them to meet their aspirations in worker roles

About NLFT and Strategy

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

1. Our Five-Year Strategy:
2. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
3. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
4. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
5. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

Location and Roles

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Additional Responsibilities

1. To work with the Service manager to ensure that the Employment Service works to its allocated financial resources & accessing and running with further funding streams to maximise the impact of the Team
2. This role will require the postholder to use and be responsible for a company payment card to use for one of purchases as assessed and in line with direct payment policies and procedures
3. This role will require the Therapist to be financially aware of the impact that getting a paid job has on an individual’s benefits & livelihood.
4. You will be required to carry out financial assessments, filling in care and support plans including personal budgets
5. You will be required to work with DWP enabling Service users to access available funding streams and support
6. Due to the integrated relationship with the social care team, the nature of the role may occasionally require OT to take case to panel to agree funding for resident/service user.

This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025