Team Leader - IPS Work to Recovery

Shaw Trust; Highgate; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Bank holiday entitlement

2 days volunteering leave

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance at 3x salary

Learning and development opportunities

Diversity networks access

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working from day one

Job summary

Shaw Trust is seeking an IPS Team Leader to guide a high-performing team of Employment Specialists. You will coach, mentor and supervise staff to deliver meaningful employment outcomes for participants with mental health support needs, while maintaining fidelity to the IPS model.

You will collaborate with healthcare professionals, Jobcentre Plus and local authorities, ensuring services are embedded in local communities and achieve contractual targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of Employment Specialists to deliver exceptional outcomes for people with mental health support needs seeking sustainable employment.
• Provide training, mentoring, supervision and performance management to maintain IPS fidelity and quality.
• Drive referrals, engagement, job outcomes and fidelity targets in line with contractual requirements.
• Build and maintain partnerships with healthcare professionals, Jobcentre Plus, local authorities and community organisations.
• Use data and insight to identify improvements, address underperformance and share best practices across Shaw Trust’s IPS network.

Job description

Lead a high-performing team that changes lives through employment. As an IPS Team Leader, you'll provide leadership, coaching and support to a team of Employment Specialists, ensuring they deliver exceptional outcomes for people with mental health support needs who are seeking sustainable employment.

You'll play a pivotal role in maintaining the quality and integrity of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model, providing training, mentoring, supervision and performance management whilst fostering a positive, collaborative and results-focused culture. Working alongside your team, you'll ensure contractual targets are achieved, including referrals, engagement, job outcomes and fidelity standards.

Building strong partnerships will be central to your success. You'll work closely with healthcare professionals, Jobcentre Plus, local authorities, community organisations and other key stakeholders to ensure the service is fully embedded within local communities and delivers maximum impact for participants.

Supporting the Service Manager, you'll take ownership of the performance and quality of your designated area, using data and insight to drive continuous improvement and quickly address any areas of underperformance. You'll also collaborate with colleagues across Shaw Trust's wider IPS network, sharing best practice and contributing to the ongoing success of the service.

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational leader who is passionate about helping people overcome barriers, developing high-performing teams and delivering meaningful results that make a lasting difference to people's lives and communities.

"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., As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following 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.