Job Summary
Do you want to be part of a friendly and dynamic team of Employment Specialists committed to delivering excellent employment support to our service users? If you believe passionately that anyone with mental health difficulties can work and would like to be part of that journey, then this could be the role for you.
We are currently seeking a part time (18.75 hours) Employment Specialist to join our well established Individual Placement and Support Team. The post will be based in the Peterborough Adult Locality Team at Peterborough Town Hall.
This is an incredibly rewarding role – you’ll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction and support their recovery journey. This is also a challenging role, so you’ll need to be resilient, empathetic and dedicated to supporting service users find a role that’s right for them.
You’ll build a good rapport with your clients, gaining a real understanding of their key skills, their aspirations and their career goals and finding them opportunities to match. You’ll also spend time building productive relationships with employers in order to identify and negotiate job opportunities in the hidden labour market.
Responsibilities
* Building the profile of employment within the mental health teams, and raising expectations around the ability of service users under those teams to find employment.
* Preparing people who have experienced mental health problems to find paid work and supporting them to the practicalities of job searching and applications.
* Building effective working relationships with external employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems.
* Providing on‑going support according to needs of both employer and employee in order to enable people who have experienced mental health problems to retain employment.
* Helping those currently employed but struggling to get appropriate support at work.
* Ensuring the service follows evidence‑based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) practice.
This role is client‑facing and includes working to achieve set KPIs and targets rather than performing administrative tasks.
About Us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long‑term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Additional Information
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Contact
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ellie Freeman, Job title: Individual Placement and Support Service Lead, Email address: ellie.freeman@cpft.nhs.uk, Telephone number: 07813 992147.
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