Ips Employment Specialists Primary Care - Oldham, United Kingdom - Groundwork Greater Manchester

Groundwork Greater Manchester

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Oldham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

You will be part of a new team delivering the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, for a caseload of unemployed clients referred from Primary Care, with a physical or mental health disability, to support them to secure and sustain employment.

You will also support some clients who are currently off sick to help them successfully return to work.

You will be co-located with health or local authority partners within Rochdale, Oldham or Tameside, and will have access to Groundwork premises in Ashton under Lyne, Rochdale or Oldham.

You will work with a range of stakeholders in Local Authority, GMCA, Primary Care and NHS Teams, user groups, training and employment schemes, local colleges, local employers, JCP and other partner agencies.

You will manage a caseload of clients -either unemployed or off sick from work - with physical or mental health disability, to assist them in securing or returning to sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences.

You will deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach (for which training will be given); providing person centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

You will work collaboratively with Primary Care and NHS Teams, maintaining positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.

Core Responsibilities:

Manage a small caseload clients with physical or mental health disabilities who are motivated to start/return to work.
Deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, for which training will be given.
Assess client support needs related to work which may include benefits/welfare advice, disclosure of mental health symptoms / disabilities etc, and provide support & guidance.
Attend weekly clinical team meetings as an embedded IPS practitioner.
Source job opportunities for clients through tailored job search and regular contact with local employers to explore hidden, as well as advertised, employment opportunities.
Provide education and support to employers, as agreed with the individual, which may include negotiating adjustments, return to work strategy and on-going contact with the employer to ensure job retention.
Build relationships with colleagues in clinical teams to engage and generate referrals and create collaborative working partnerships with clinical staff (promoting employment as a positive intervention in the client journey).
Once employment has been secured continue to provide quality service through conducting regular visits, effective monitoring and in-work support to clients and employers to help sustain employment.

Relationship Management

To establish positive and integrated relationships with Primary Care teams, employers, and other service providers.
Building and maintaining employer relationships, including updates in Salesforce syste
Arranging regular meetings with clients to monitor and review progress pre

- and post-employment.

Spending time getting to know local employers, in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individual's strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.
Challenging inequalities experienced by clients and address existing discrimination, whilst ensuring a process of learning for the organisation
Working with employers to promote the service, identify job opportunities and ensure appropriate strategies are in place to reduce barriers in the work place - this can include exploring 'job carving' i.e., carving small slices of work from the duties other staff do not have time to do.
Developing effective working relationships with a range of external agencies who can help clients to achieve their employment goals. This may include local colleges and training providers.

Other:

Adhere to administrative and data capture protocols which record the progress of clients, and to keep accurate and complete records of casework.
To work independently, reliably, and deliver consistently to deliver effective IPS practice
Ensure that effective monitoring and evaluation systems are adhered to and keep abreast of changing practice within vocational rehabilitation.
To co-produce service development with service users where possible.
To collect employment recovery stories from people accessing the service.
Partake in continuous learning about mental and physical health conditions, their impact and how they can be managed and undertake mandatory training as required.
Protecting organisation's value by keeping information confidential and ensuring all personal data for which you are responsible within the business is held in accordance with GDPR
Meeting Health and Safety requirements.
Complying with Equal Opportunities legislation and requirements.
Carrying out of other duties which are broadly consistent with th