Ips Employment Specialist - Northampton, United Kingdom - Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Northampton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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The opportunity to change minds. The power to change lives.

For people who need mental health support, getting back into work is a vital step on their recovery journey.

The evidence backs this up, but although 90% of people with severe mental illness want to work, only 8% of them are in paid employment.

That's why we're looking for people to join a community mental health team as an Employment Specialist, to champion our mission and help people who need mental health support get back into work.


This is an incredibly rewarding role - you'll have the opportunity to transform the lives of your clients, 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 finding clients a role that's right for them.

As a people person, 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.


We are delighted to be recruiting 3 additional employment specialists to join our team, due to an expansion of the service.


This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-assured and positive individual who would like to help people who have experienced mental ill health sustainable employment, volunteering, education or training.


The post-holder will be embedded alongside mental health professionals in community mental health settings, and will support a caseload of up to 25 individuals with all the activities that will help them to gain and retain a paid job.

The post-holder will also be a member of the IPS Employment Team who are embedded in teams across NHFT's adult mental health services, and will be supported by the IPS Team Leader


These roles are based from Campbell House, Northampton, with some home working, some travel countywide, and about 65% of time is spent in community settings.


We welcome people from a range of backgrounds and with a variety of experience for this role - you don't need any specific qualifications or clinical experience.

We'll train you on the Individual Placement & Support (IPS) approach, giving you the tools you need to provide expert support and advice to clients, while also building positive relationships with employers, opening doors and changing perceptions.


Key duties include:


  • 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.
  • Building effective working relationships with external employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems.
  • Providing ongoing support according to needs of both employer and employee in orders 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 evidencedbased Individual Placement and Support (IPS) practice.
Four full time posts available

Please use your supporting statement to explain in detail how you meet the criteria set out in the attached job description/person specification
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