Senior Employment Specialist - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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As part of the NHS England initiative to expand access to evidenced based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services, we are delighted to be growing our team across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and are seeking a full time Senior Employment Specilaist (SES) to join our team.

This post will involve supervision of staff in the south of the county (Cambridge) however your base is negotiable.

Employment rates for people with severe mental illness are unacceptably low and IPS is designed to change this.

Getting into employment can be a critical part of a recovery journey:

people with severe mental health problems who find paid employment, show reduced symptoms, improved quality of life and financial independence.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough IPS Employment Service is a well established and highly successful team undergoing an expansion to support individuals in both secondary and primary care.

We are recruiting an SES who will play a pivotal role in managing a high quality service that maintains our fidelity standards and delivers positive outcomes for service users.

You will be working alongside the team manager to support and motivate a team of Employment Specialists, providing supervision, training and role modelling of the IPS approach.

You will be responsible for developing, monitoring and evaluating the evidence-based, highly structured, employment service. This includes ensuring that performance targets are met. The ability to network in the local community and build strong relationships is essential.

You will also be required to manage a small caseload of people who have experienced mental health problems and who are unemployed or looking to retain their employment.

You will be working directly with all relevant stakeholders:
the service user, locality team staff, primary care staff, consultant psychiatrists, employers and partner agencies.

You will have significant experience of working with mental health service users.

You will have experience of supervising or coaching staff as you will be required to support, monitor and manage the performance of the Employment Specialists, guiding them individually in best practice and aiming to achieve individual and team job outcome targets.

You will have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and a commitment to ensuring that mental health service users who wish to work have access to high quality employment support.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.

These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Contribute to the leadership of a highquality service that adheres to the principles of IPS best practice.
Support the team manager to monitor and manage performance of the IPS employment specialists guiding them individually, as directed by the team manager, on best practice and achieving individual and team job outcome targets.
Provide professional fidelity based supervision and field mentoring to an identified group of employment specialists.
To work with a small caseload of people accessing the service using the IPS approach to gain and retain paid employment.
The post holder is expected to work directly with all relevant stakeholders: the service user, CPFT staff, employers, IPS Grow, NHS England and Commissioners.
In collaboration with the team manager, guide, mentor and coach the team to deliver on employment engagements/job development strategies.
To contribute to the production of regular monitoring reports for internal and external stakeholders, including commissioners, and to deliver information in the absence of the team leader.