Employment Advisor - Barnsley, United Kingdom - South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

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Barnsley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

KEY RESULT AREAS:
The postholder will manage a caseload of 25 to 35 service users within The Barnsley Talking Therapies service.

The Employment Advisor will work with the clinician and the client to produce a personalised action plan to ensure that psychological treatment and employment support are provided to support the individual to improve their mental health and meet their stated employment goals, which may be to improve their current employment or find alternative work.

The role is to work directly with all relevant stakeholders; including, service users, mental health staff in community teams, Vocational teams and local partner agencies including Jobcentre Plus, Work & Health Programme providers, employers, trade unions and employment agencies to support people to stay in employment and secure employment opportunities.

A key part of the role is to actively engage with employers to enable service users to gain paid employment and to sustain this with ongoing support within employment as required.

1.1Care/service/function provision:

To ensure that all service users who say they want to gain paid employment are successful in accessing/gaining and retaining paid employment.

Core duties and responsibilities To work with clients accessing the Barnsley Talking Therapies Team to find work, maintain work and provide advice and guidance to clients irrespective of the work status.

To work directly with all relevant stakeholders and external agencies to ensure that the service users meet their employment goals.

This includes mental health teams, employers, local DWP, Jobcentre Plus, trade unions, the Council Business, Work and Health Provider Programmes and Economy and other Council teams.

Spend time getting to know local employers in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individuals strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.

To ensure that service users support needs are identified in terms of barriers to employment, disclosure with the agreement of the individual and reasonable adjustments.

To ensure as much as possible that the quality of work environments is explored including potential for workplace adjustments to accommodate individual strengths, skills and coping strategies.

To support service users to training and education courses as appropriate.

To adhere to administrative, monitoring and evaluation systems requirements for the service. To undertake mandatory training as required by the trust. To provide and seek benefit advice for service users seeking paid employment To provide employment advisor caseload cover. 1.

2 Working as part of a Team:

To work closely with clinical teams and health care professionals, to identify individuals who are motivated to seek paid employment and to achieve job outcome targets alongside a multi-disciplinary approach to return to work To work as an integrated part of the Barnsley Talking Therapy Service.

1.3 Managing Self:

To create and maintain links with local employers and council employment networks to support people into paid employment and provide in-work support to help people retain employment.

To work assertively with employers to promote employer engagement in order to meet and exceed job outcome targets for service users.

To promote the role of the Employment Advisor within the Barnsley Talking Therapies Team and to external partners. This includes educating employers around mental health issues where appropriate.

Actively participate in the appraisal process using it as a positive means of improving self-awareness, development and work practice. Act within own sphere of competence at all times as determined by the job description 1.

4 Management Supervision and Support:
To work as part of a team, taking part in monthly team meetings.

The post holder has no managerial supervision responsibility but is expected to be a good example of the role of Employment Advisors within service and externally.

To provide cover for the caseload of the other Employment Advisors as necessary during times of sickness and annual leave.

1.5 Financial Responsibility:
To use Trust resources efficiently and suggest efficiency savings to more senior staff. To claim expenses relevant to work related activities such as travel and parking through the exisiting Trust electronic system. 1.

6 Trust Values:

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time.

The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:

Honest, open, transparent Respectful Person first and in the centre Improve and be outstanding Relevant today, ready for tomorrow Families and carers matter 1.7 Safeguarding: Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appr