An exciting opportunity has arisen for several experienced and motivated Band 6 Team Leaders to join our expanding Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services. We have a number of different locations available which cover Merseyside (travel will be expected within the role).
IPS is a nationally recognised, evidence-based model that helps people with severe and enduring mental health conditions to secure and sustain paid employment as part of their recovery journey. Our service works in partnership with Community Mental Health Teams and Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams as well as community partners such as DWP, providing personalised, recovery-focused employment support to Mersey Care service users.
These roles sit within The Life Rooms portfolio, an innovative and forward-thinking part of Mersey Care that focuses on social-model interventions, empowerment, and opportunity. As a Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping high-quality IPS delivery, supporting Employment Specialists, and ensuring our service users receive exceptional, outcome-driven support.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Main duties of the job
As a Team Leader within the IPS service, you will play a key role in ensuring high-quality delivery and the ongoing development of employment support across the organisation. Your responsibilities will include:
* Leading and supporting a team of up to 10 Employment Specialists, each co-located within Community Mental Health /Early Intervention clinical teams or out in the community.
* Overseeing delivery of the IPS service specification, ensuring that all performance targets and key performance indicators (KPIs) are achieved.
* Producing and presenting quarterly performance reports to Commissioners, demonstrating outcomes, progress, and service impact.
* Ensuring strong service governance, including preparation of monthly Quality Improvement Group reports.
* Maintaining high quality standards through coordination and readiness of IPS Fidelity Reviews, ensuring adherence to national IPS principles.
* Driving continuous service development, identifying opportunities for innovation, growth, and improved outcomes for service users.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Person Specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
* A demonstrable commitment and clear motivation to work closely with people who find themselves severely marginalised and excluded from mainstream community.
* Capacity to embrace and assist in managing organisational change
Qualifications
* Two years experience working in a supported employment service with first line management or supervisory responsibility.
* Two years experience of job development with employers and supporting marginalised individuals into open employment.
* Three years experience working in community services for people who are severely disadvantaged by
* Experience of working outside fixed structures
* Experience in a voluntary, professional or other capacity of acting as an advocate.
* Experience of taking part in and/or devising service audit quality measures
Knowledge/Experience
* A variety of experiences in and a good understanding of industrial, commercial, manufacturing or other workplaces and processes.
* A sound understanding of how mental illness can impact upon the everyday lives of individuals and people around them and approaches or interventions which help
* A broad knowledge of teaching Principles
* Knowledge of designing and delivering training to individuals and groups.
* Training in Systematic Instruction
* Counselling
* Person Centred Planning
Skills
* Excellent communication skills with a broad spectrum of audiences.
* Selling ability can capture and sustain the interest of an audience including service promotion.
* Reaching shared agreement, effective group/meeting skills.
* Excellent negotiating skills with employers, job seekers, carers, colleagues and partner agencies.
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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