Job summary
- Main area
- IPS Employment Specialist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Contract Ends April 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-IT-24-6420319
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- One Recovery Bucks
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Employment Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
This role is part of an innovative new employment advice service aligned and working within the One Recovery Bucks Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services to support people with drug and alcohol problems with employment needs. Evidence based supported employment, Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is the model being developed and the post holder, guided by the IPS Lead will be the key to its design and implementation.
You will support service users within the service as part of their team to gain, return to or retain employment. The role will involve working directly with Recovery Workers, care coordinators, Jobcentre Plus, employers, trade unions, world of work and employment agencies to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities. You will work closely with practitioners in Buckinghamshire.
You will work in partnership with Community Mental Health Teams, Recovery College as well as more specialist services and other primary and secondary care services serving Buckinghamshire. This is an exciting new project keen to make a real difference to the vocational outcomes of people accessing our services.
To find out more about the new employment advice service, click the link below:
Main duties of the job
- Manage a caseload of approximately 20 – 25 service users.
- To work under the guidance of the IPS Lead and ORB Operations Manager, actively engaging in Supervisions both individual and Team, which includes reviewing evidence of your work e.g. Employer Contact Logs, highlighting best practice and areas of development.
- To engage with employers throughout the Buckinghamshire Community. Role includes being an active presence in the community.
- To work and actively liaise with a multidisciplinary staff team, in an often busy office environment
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full list of responsibilities. A brief summary is provided below:
- Conduct an assessment of employment needs and consider their strengths, difficulties and employment assets in order to offer the most effective support, which must include the person’s job goals and any concerns regarding their capacity for work and previous work experience, making accurate recommendations.
- Offer the service user support agreeing a written action plan with the person detailing the steps to be taken to either get back into or retain employment and the appropriate support route. Need to include abilities, work solutions, preparation for work, The action plan should also be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time bound).
- Work closely with local agencies to identify appropriate job vacancies
- Provide continued personalised support after an individual has returned to work or secured employment to help them to sustain
- Maintain up-to-date service user records in accordance with IPS Fidelity Review requirements include IPS Grow Reporting Tool.
- Work jointly and collaboratively with all service users to ensure care-plans and work plans are co-produced and always reflect the needs and skills of the individual.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess individual strengths in relation to employment
- Effective written and oral communication skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to collect and report data to support service performance and evaluation
- Experience of providing vocational and employment support. This may have been gained in HR, business, management, recruitment or working in sales
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Harber
- Job title
- Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07470 972 729
- Additional information
- If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Dan as we would love to hear from you.**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.********This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
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