Lead Employment Retention Specialist - Colchester, United Kingdom - Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

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Colchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working with the Vocational Manager to deliver a high-quality service that adheres to the principles of Job Retention best practice.

Meet regularly with the Vocational Service Manager to agree priorities and work plans and deputise as required.

To monitor and manage the performance of the Job Retention Employment Specialists, guiding them individually in best practice by field mentoring, aiming to achieve individual and team job outcome targets.

To identify training needs of staff and arrange appropriate training to support with continuous professional development.

To support the design and delivery of in-house staff training, coaching and field mentoring and observations to ensure continuous improvement in key areas of service provision.

To work with Vocational Manager to arrange cover for staff during times of leave.

Responsible for ensuring team monthly monitoring reports are accurate and submitted on time to the Business Performance Manager and Vocational Manager, answering any data capture queries for team data set.

Lead the team to meet and exceed outcome targets for the service by feeding into employment focused meetings and providing solution focused individual monthly supervision.

Guide, mentor and coach the team to deliver quality individualised employment retention support through effective vocational planning/ goal setting Assist the team to build relationships with clinical teams and other potential referral sources to generate referrals and create collaborative working partnerships where employment support is integrated into mental health and holistic treatment.

Support Employment Retention Specialists in employer relations management in order to conduct effective communications and relationship management between employer and client.

Build on and develop effective working relationships with a range of external agencies who might be better able to help individuals to achieve their goals for example, ACAS, CAB and IPS employment services.

To maintain a professional relationship with the service users of the programme and with key internal and external stakeholders and staff, with particular attention to confidentiality and the maintenance of boundaries.

To lead the team to adhere to administrative and data capture protocols which record the progress of individuals, and to keep accurate and complete records of casework.

To undertake mandatory training as required. To actively participate in own continuous professional development. To implement HR policies and procedures as required.

To regularly collect and promote service user employment recovery stories.