Ips Employment Specialist - Darlington, United Kingdom - Recovery Connections

Recovery Connections
Recovery Connections
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Darlington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Employed by Recovery Connections, you will be an integral part of the Employment Team within an established, lived experience substance use and alcohol recovery service.

Recovery Connections has already rolled out IPS Employment support in the South Tees, and received national recognition for the achievements of the team so far.


Building on your already extensive experience of supporting people into work, any working knowledge you already have of the benefits system, equality act, and providing person-centred support would be a bonus.

Fundamentally though, you must have a strong passion for finding people work, identifying opportunities and building both internal and external relationships for the benefit of the people you work with.


Under the supervision of the Senior Employment Specialist, manage a caseload of people currently in community-based treatment services for drug and/or alcohol dependence and who are unemployed, and who wish to secure paid employment.


Main Duties

  • To prepare individuals for employment through assessing each person's individual employment needs through vocational profiling, and then actively support them to achieve their employment goals, in partnership with the clinical team.
  • To promote the benefits of supporting clients to access employment within the clinical team and external employers, aiming to raise the profile of IPS services, and raise expectations around the ability of clients to access paid employment.
  • To work with client key workers and clinical staff, including through case conferencing, to ensure that clients receive appropriate support from everyone involved in their care during the returntowork process.
  • To provide advice and support to employers, as agreed with the individual, which may include negotiating adjustments and ongoing contact with supervisors to ensure job retention.
  • To assess individual support needs related to work which might typically include help with welfare benefits, travel to work, managing health at work etc.
  • To work flexibly on occasion as required by clients and employers, which may require some working out of normal office hours.
  • Promote the profile of employment and working embedded within the team to raise expectations around the ability of clients to attain paid work.

Professional Development

  • To participate in your own IPS and management supervision, objective setting/appraisal, and personal development plan and IPS fidelity reviews.

Policy and/or service development

  • To work with the local IPS Senior Employment Specialist and service management to ensure that vocational support services offered continue to develop effectively.
  • To ensure that effective referral procedures to the IPS provision from the clinical team are in place.
  • To participate in effective monitoring and evaluation systems.

Research and Development

  • To keep abreast of changing practice within IPS and vocational support more generally.

Other

  • This is an outline of the postholder's duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the reasonable needs of your employer. The post holder may be required to undertake various other duties appropriate to the salary grade and nature of the job.

Salary:
£27,900.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Company pension

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Work Location:
In person

Application deadline: 28/06/2023
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