Nhs Employment Advisor - Basildon, United Kingdom - Vita Health Group

Vita Health Group

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Basildon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role:
What you will do?
We have an excellent opportunity in our Basildon and Brentwood NHS Talking Therapies service for an Employment Advisor.

This is a key role providing support and advice to our service users to help them gain, return to or retain employment.

You will work closely with mental health clinicians and develop good working partnerships with a variety of stakeholders including employers, job centres, trade unions and employment agencies.

You will have demonstrable experience of supporting people who are experiencing mental ill health, to overcoming barriers to return to work from sickness, remain in current employment by overcoming concerns and gaining new employment.

Travel will be required within the Basildon and Brentwood region to deliver employment support via approved venues and at employer locations as required.

This will be based on patient demand but also requirement to create locality based partnerships including with Talking Therapies clinicians through working from Vita base(s).

It will be a rewarding role and a great opportunity to build on your experience and develop your career in a fast-growing company.

Why Vita Health Group?:

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience.

We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK's largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
An embedded "speaking up" culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.