IPS Team Lead

Overview

Do you want a leadership role where employment genuinely supports mental health recovery?

This is frontline IPS leadership, supporting people with mental health needs to move into meaningful, sustainable work.

As an IPS Team Leader, you will lead the day-to-day delivery of an evidence-based IPS service across South Essex, managing a team of IPS Employment Specialists and ensuring employment is embedded as a core part of mental health care.

Your leadership will shape practice, performance, and culture, ensuring the IPS model is delivered with fidelity, compassion, and impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 8 and their day-to-day delivery of IPS services across South Essex.
• Line-manage and support a team of IPS Employment Specialists.
• Drive performance against job start, sustainment and progression targets.
• Embed the IPS Fidelity Model, supporting good–excellent practice.
• Work closely with clinicians to integrate employment into care pathways.
• Monitor caseloads, quality, and outcomes using data and insight.
• Support reflective practice, supervision, and staff wellbeing.
• Ensure safeguarding, GDPR, and audit readiness.
• Identify risks and escalate appropriately to the Contract Manager.
• Act as a visible, values-led leader within the service.

What we\’re looking for / Qualifications

• IPS or supported employment experience
• Mental health, health or social care services background
• Frontline team leadership or supervision experience
• Performance and quality-led service delivery
• You will thrive if you have
• Strong understanding of the IPS Fidelity Model
• Coaching, developing and motivating others
• Ability to balance compassion with accountability
• Confidence working with clinicians and partners
• Use of data to improve practice and outcomes

Role Context

This is high-impact leadership in fast-moving, relationship-driven supported employment. You will work to support people who may experience anxiety, depression or severe mental illness, require flexible, integrated support, move quickly into work when the system works well, and need strong in-work support to sustain employment.

You will thrive if you:Set high standards without losing compassion; Build trust across complex systems; Hold teams to account while supporting wellbeing; Be resilient, reflective and values-led.

Why Join Get Set UK?

• Part of a mission-driven organization that invests in growth and celebrates impact.
• Wellbeing support including GP, counselling and Headspace.
• Discounts, pension and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced benefits with service.
• A culture built on ambition, pride, ownership and support.
• Real opportunities for progression.

We are also a proud Disability Confident Employer. Adjustments are available at every stage.

Application, Equal Opportunity & Safeguarding

If you’re ready to Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Own It and Be Inspiring, and you want a role where your work genuinely changes lives, we’d love to hear from you.

We reserve the right to close applications early. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Get Set UK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Disability Confident Employer, offering employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, physical and mental disability, age, citizenship, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, and any other protected status. Our aim is to support and maintain the physical and mental health of all people at work. If you need any reasonable adjustments as part of your application and recruitment process, please let us know at the outset and we will work to provide the right solution for you.

This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners/clients and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful appointment to this role will require satisfactory completion of recruitment checks.

Get Set UK does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Recruitment Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Get Set UK will consider these CVs as gifts and will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.