Job summary
- Main area
- Wellbeing Recovery Employment Service PRW
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (until 31st March 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 338-6041313-24-C
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Riding Community Hospital
- Town
- Beverley
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Employment Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 4
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Employment Advisor on fixed term appointment, ending 31st March 2025. This is to support the Wellbeing Recovery Employment Service (WRES) project, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to cover the period from April 2023 to March 2025
The project is being managed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust as a project delivery partner. The project funding is for the delivery of year 3 of the UKSPF for the ‘People and Skills’ grant, to deliver on the following investment areas:
- Support for the unemployed
- Skills support for the workforce
The project is due to complete 31st March 2025 and to achieve the aims and objectives we are looking to recruit a team of people to deliver the project outcomes.
WRES will provide support to individuals, aged 16+, to engage or re-engage in employment through skills development workshops and job search support and advice .
The successful candidates need to be forward thinking, innovative and able to work under pressure. The posts involve developing connections both internally and externally and building networks with local organisations. This role is part of an employment support and advice service, working closely with people with common mental health problems who are facing related barriers to accessing Employment, Education and / or basic skill provision
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role will include -
- Managing a case load of up to 25 service users (WTE)
- Support service users to work towards, gain, return to or retain employment
- Provide interventions within the employment team - this includes one to one sessions [face to face / telephone / video call] and /or to support service users to access and utilise related courses and support available via Humber Recovery & Wellbeing College.
- Collaboratively working within the Wellbeing Recovery Employment Team and within the wider Prevention, Recovery and Wellbeing footprint, utilising other internal services where necessary via internal referral pathway
- To reduce stigma of people with mental health conditions in employment, WRES, and wider Trust
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Interviews to take place on Thursday 16th.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good standard of general education
- Knowledge acquired through in-house training, short course and experience to NVQ 3 level or equivalent acquired through formal training or experience to diploma level
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between unemployment, mental health and social issues (e.g., ability to work, debt, social isolation, loss of selfconfidence, stress/frustration and anger) and how these issues may impact on future job performance
- Demonstrate an understanding of the value of work to health and vocational rehabilitation for unemployed individuals experiencing Mental Health issues
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in employment activity i.e. job retention / mediation / coaching
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people who have experienced a mental health condition
- Evidence of providing employment related support to those with a health condition or disability
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working in primary care services
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of service users and stakeholders
- The ability to get to know a local area and access a range of services (including employers) to the advantage of their service users
- To be able to work well with people who may experience emotional distress
- Work within a shared office environment and remotely
- Ability to commute to sites across the organisation (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
- High level of personal enthusiasm and motivation
- Ability to work as part of a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fernanda Marbrow
- Job title
- Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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