Ips Senior Employment Specialist - Manchester, United Kingdom - Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Overview:
Do you value the importance of employment in recovery?

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence based programme supporting clients to find meaningful and sustainable paid employment based on their preferences.

IPS was first brought into mental health services, supporting clients with severe mental illness into employment and is now being rolled out in drug and alcohol services.

The below videos provide information on IPS and the role of an
Employment Specialist. Please note the videos are based on mental health services but this role is working in
drug and alcohol treatment teams (each video is around 1 minute long)

What is IPS Employment Support?

What is an Employment Specialist?

CGL (Change Grow Live) are now recruiting for a Senior IPS Employment Specialist to manage the IPS employment team alongside recovery services to support Service Users who are wanting to find paid employment.

This role will be based in the Greater Manchester area.

The Senior Employment Specialist will manage a team of three Employment Specialists alongside the management and operational delivery of the scheme which will include overseeing the budget, strategic relationships, pathways development, employer partnerships and ensuring the contract hits key performance indicators.

As this is a Senior Employment Specialist position, you should ideally have some knowledge and/or experience of working in IPS.

As the IPS service is new to CGL Manchester, you will lead the growing team of Employment Specialists, providing employment support within the treatment teams.

The IPS team work closely with drug and alcohol treatment teams in a co-ordinated approach. This role is target driven to ensure a high quality service is delivered.

About You:

Excellent communication skills and ability to form effective working relationships
Knowledge of how to manage and support a team effectively
Ability to collate and report data for the IPS service
Effective management style to ensure staff are supported
Drive to support individuals who want to find paid employment
Ability to approach Employers, build relationships and broker opportunities
The belief that with the right support, everyone can find paid employment
Ability to achieve and excel in a target driven environment
Negotiation skills
Drive, passion and commitment to supporting our service users to find employment
Proven ability to build rapport with people and especially understanding issues for people with affected by substance misuse or similar conditions
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Strong written skills/verbal/ organisational skills

Responsibilities:

_ Do you want to work for a Charity that believes in people?_

_ Do you want to be involved in something new that changes lives?_

_ As a part of the Change Grow Live team you'll help people get to where they want to be and make a difference._

CGL have been a leading provider of recovery focused drug and alcohol services across England and Wales for over 20 years.

Our innovation and creative approach allows us to provide a broad range of safe, high-quality health and social care services.

This post comes with:

Competitive rates of pay
Dedicated professional development time
Weekly wellbeing hours
Career advancement opportunities
Access to excellent training programmes
Generous annual leave allowance.

Before you go, we just wanted to mention that Change Grow Live are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates differences and allows our staff and service users to flourish.

We recruit the very best people from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service users benefit from our diverse skills and expertise.

We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in al our recruitment processes.

If you think this sounds like your ideal job, we would love to hear from you.