WLA - IPS/SEQF Employment Specialist

Shaw Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

2 days volunteering leave

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Shaw Trust is seeking an IPS Employment Specialist to support clients with mental health needs into sustainable paid employment. You will manage a caseload, provide person-centred guidance and build strong relationships with local employers to secure job opportunities.

This is a community-based role with targets tied to contract obligations and the Fidelity delivery model. Vacancies exist across Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hillingdon.

Qualifications

• This is a target driven role with contract obligations (Starts On Programme, Job Entries, Job Retention)
• IPS delivery model underpinned by 8 key principles and 25 items on Fidelity Scale
• Location options in Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hillingdon

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach to help clients into sustainable paid employment
• Manage a caseload of clients with mental health support needs
• Build positive relationships with local employers to create job opportunities
• Provide person-centred guidance and advice to clients throughout their journey

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

Working with clients, health professionals, service providers and employers, as an IPS Employment Specialist you will be focused on making sure a person’s journey into employment, with associated improved social inclusion and wellbeing is as easy as possible. You will work with clients (managing a caseload) who have mental health support needs, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences. Your role will be to deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach (for which training will be given); providing person centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

This is a target driven role. These targets are derived from contract obligations of: Starts On Programme, Job Entries, Job Retention, compliance to Fidelity delivery model (IPS)

The IPS delivery model you will be expected to delivery is underpinned by 8 key principles and 25 Items under the Fidelity Scale. The six key stages on a typical journey are: outreach/referral; vocational profiling; action planning; job search activities (including working on a one-to-one basis with employers to match people with appropriate employment); job placement, job coaching and coordinating ongoing support whilst in employment.

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Location:

Vacancies are available in Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hillingdon.

Please declare in your application your area of choice.

Community based role

Employee Benefits

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: https://www.shawtrust.org.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/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.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: [e-mail]

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