IPS Employment Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area EmploymentGrade NHS AfC: Band 5Contract PermanentHours Full time - hours per week (9-5)Job ref -ACC-7--A Site DerbyshireTown Various sites around DerbyshireSalary £, - £, paSalary period YearlyClosing //5 :
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
Job overview
Mental Health IPS Employment Specialist
Do you want to make a genuine difference and transform someone’s life?
As a result of service expansion, we have 1 full time vacancy for IPS employment specialists to work in one of several locations in Derbyshire including:
Chesterfield, Erewash and others to be discussed.
We are looking for motivated, passionate self-starters who wants to kickstart a career in the mental health sector. This position, with on-the-job training, is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference and support those with mental health needs.
As an Employment Specialist you will play a vital role in helping people with mental health needs find meaningful and fulfilling employment. You’ll receive all the training and support you need to take on the role, develop your skills and have access to a broad range of opportunities within Derbyshire Healthcare.
We welcome applications from a range of backgrounds and with all kinds of life experience. What you will need is the ability to empathise and build relationships with clients, strong organisational skills, the resilience and confidence to communicate and engage with a range of employers, and a fundamental belief that anyone with a mental health condition can work.
1. Please state which area you would like to work in
2. Able to drive for long periods of time
Main duties of the job
What is a Mental Health IPS Employment Specialist?
This is an exciting and dynamic role, where no one day is the same and you’ll be making a genuine difference to people’s lives. Using the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model you’ll be:
3. Supporting and motivating individuals with mental health needs to access and sustain paid employment.
4. Regularly meeting with clients to listen, help them identify their best job match, reflecting on their skills and aspirations, providing support including CV production, interview techniques
5. Provide in-work support, assessing each client’s work-related needs, designing a return-to-work strategy, and ensuring job retention with ongoing contact.
6. Advocating for your clients by educating and engaging with employers regarding the IPS service.
7. Sourcing job opportunities for your clients through regular contact with local employers within the community.
8. Work as part of the Derbyshire Healthcare mental health team to promote employment and raise expectations around the ability of service users to access paid employment, breaking down the barriers for them.
Working for our organisation
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”
Benefits include:
9. days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to days after 5 years & days after years’ service pro rata for part time
10. Free car parking
11. Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
12. Generous NHS pension scheme
13. Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
14. Health service discounts and online benefits
15. Incremental pay progression
16. Free confidential employee assistance programme /7
17. Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
18. Health and wellbeing opportunities
19. Structured learning and development opportunities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for an individual who is passionate in joining us to develop the service and transform’s someone’s life. This role calls for empathy and the ability to initiate and develop relationships with a variety of individuals and be able to engage employers using a variety of methods such as via the telephone or face-to-face in the community. Alongside having strong and persuasive communication skills, excellent time management, and exceptional IT and administration skills.
It is desirable, to have experience of working with people with mental health support needs or similar groups, OR experience working in employment support services or equivalent, including working with people on a one-to-one basis, offering motivation and support.
We are also actively interested in individuals with transferrable skills for this role such as experience in using a persuasive communication style, data collection, motivational interviewing or promoting a service to a variety of audiences, this can include, but not limited to, coaching, recruitment, sales, education, training, mentoring, or sales roles.
If you’ve got any questions about the role, feel free to email and we’ll be happy to discuss it with you.
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PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Person specification
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
20. Employment advisory experience
21. Understanding of the impact of work as a recovery tool
22. Working knowledge of IPS
23. Experience of working with people with mental health problems implementing individual programmes and interventions
24. Experience of working with employers and DWP
25. Excellent admin skills
26. Able to work autonomously
Desirable criteria
27. IPS training
28. Mental health knowledge
29. Employability experience
30. Supporting disadvantaged people into employment
31. Accurately recording data
32. Excellent organisational skills
33. Excellent presentation skills
Skills
Essential criteria
34. Enthusiasm & understanding towards supporting people with mental health problems find employment
35. Engage service users towards vocational goals
36. Strong administrator
37. Ability to plan and prioritise
38. People person who builds rapport
39. Understands the importance of audits
Desirable criteria
40. Able to build rapport
41. Able to demonstrate empathy
42. Record data in a timely manner
43. Uses tools for organisation
44. Accurate data collection
45. Understanding of MH services
Further details / informal visits contact
NameJohn FlahertyJob titleIPS Service ManagerEmail numberAdditional APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Able to drive for long periods of time
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Recruitment Team
Telephone option 1, option 1 (please note, my normal working days are Mon-Thu)