Senior Employment Specialist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS foundation trust seeks a Senior Employment Specialist to enhance employment opportunities for individuals with mental health challenges. This role involves coaching clients, supervising specialists, and staying updated with labour market trends. Ideal candidates will possess relevant qualifications and demonstrate a passion for empowering others.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Qualification in Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) or similar.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored advice and support using various communication methods.
• Supervise a team of employment specialists and support their development.
• Maintain accurate records and databases.

Skills

Communication

Supervision

Time Management

Emotional Intelligence

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

Qualification in Information Advice and Guidance (IAG)

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Employment Specialist

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Job summary

To support people with mental health problems into employment and provide supervision for a team of employment specialists.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Giving individually tailored advice and support to a diverse range of clients, using a range of communication methods including video conferencing, telephone calls, emails, texts and social media.
• Working as part of a team of other employment professionals, sharing knowledge and expertise, and contributing to team meetings and service development activities.
• Providing effective supervision for a team of employment specialists to help them develop in their roles and achieve a high level of performance.
• Typing clear and concise session notes, and entering data onto electronic databases in a timely manner, ensuring that files and systems are always up-to-date and accurate.
• Working independently to manage own time and workload, keeping track of own progress towards targets, and continually reflecting on own performance to improve and develop in the role.
• Keeping up to date with local and national labour market trends, education/training opportunities, welfare benefit changes, and employment law in relation to client group.

About us

About South London and Maudsley:

At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust we provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. We also provide substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. Our staff serve a local population of nearly two million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. We provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people each year and we treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. As well as serving the communities of south London, we provide more than 50 specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.

About Work Well:

Work Well is a department within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust that supports people to find work.

Our mission is to support people who are unemployed in achieving their own career goals. We believe everyone can work, and people should have choice about the type of work they want to do, and when to do it. Our vision for the future is a society where everyone can work, if they want to.

Our values are:

Person-centred: we don't tell people what to do, we give them information so they can make their own career decisions.

Empowering: we don't do things for people, we give them tools so they can do things themselves.

Inspiring: we don't just help people find a job, we help them set long term career goals for the life they want to live.

Job responsibilities

• Giving individually tailored advice and support to a diverse range of clients, using a range of communication methods including video conferencing, telephone calls, emails, texts and social media.
• Working as part of a team of other employment professionals, sharing knowledge and expertise, and contributing to team meetings and service development activities.
• Providing effective supervision for a team of employment specialists to help them develop in their roles and achieve a high level of performance.
• Typing clear and concise session notes, and entering data onto electronic databases in a timely manner, ensuring that files and systems are always up-to-date and accurate.
• Working independently to manage own time and workload, keeping track of own progress towards targets, and continually reflecting on own performance to improve and develop in the role.
• Keeping up to date with local and national labour market trends, education/training opportunities, welfare benefit changes, and employment law in relation to client group.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Education

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (A)
• Qualification in Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) or similar (A).

Experience

• Experience of delivering employment advice to people with mental health problems and/or disabilities who are unemployed (A/I).
• Experience of supervising or managing others (A/I).
• Experience of setting up new services or projects (A/I).
• Lived experience of mental health problems or caring for someone with a mental health problem (A/I).

Knowledge

• Up-to-date knowledge about how to succeed in today's job market including labour market trends and common recruitment practices (A/I/T).
• Knowledge of primary and secondary care mental health service systems (NHS Transformation) (A/I/T).
• Knowledge of the local area (London Borough of Southwark) (A/I/T).

Skills and Competencies

• Continually expands knowledge in areas related to work and keeps up-to-date with developments (A/I/T).
• Communicates effectively with others, selecting the best method of communication including email, telephone, video or face-to-face (A/I/T).
• Deals with challenging conversations confidently and sensitively (A/I/T).
• Regularly reviews performance and develops solutions for improvement (A/I/T).
• Interprets and follows relevant policies, procedures and legislation (A/I/T).

Values

• The focus of every role at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is always around the service user. Every member of staff is expected to meet these five commitments (A/I/T):
• To be caring, kind and polite.
• To be prompt and value your time.
• To take time and listen to you.
• To be honest and direct with you.
• To do what I say I'm going to do.
• In addition, all staff must understand and support the organisation's commitment to eliminating discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relations, and put this into practice in everything they do (A/I/T).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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