At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to provide life-changing employment support for individuals facing mental health challenges.
- Company: Join Blackpool Council, dedicated to building stronger communities and improving lives.
- Benefits: Permanent contract with opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Dynamic role with travel involved and a focus on community engagement.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in employment support and strong leadership abilities required.
The predicted salary is between 34209 - 41811 £ per year.
- Senior IPS Employment Specialist | Connect to Work
- Blackpool | Blackpool Council
- Permanent contract
Want to lead and inspire a team delivering life-changing employment support to people experiencing mental health challenges?
As a Senior IPS Employment Specialist, you’ll combine hands-on client work with coaching, performance management and service development to ensure a high-quality IPS service that delivers outstanding employment outcomes.
- North West
- Full-time
- Job overview
Blackpool Council is committed to creating opportunities for residents and building stronger communities across the town.
Guided by values of accountability, fairness, quality, trust and compassion, the council delivers a wide range of services that improve lives and support local growth.
Through its Positive Steps into Work service, Blackpool Council helps people experiencing mental health challenges to achieve their employment goals using the evidence-based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach.
Are you passionate about helping people get back to work and managing staff?
To support our exciting Connect to Work programme, we are recruiting a Senior Employment Specialist to join our friendly team.
This post will be covering Blackpool with travel involved.
You will manage a team of Employment Specialists and work face-to-face with clients (managing a 50% caseload) who have long term health conditions and/or barriers to employment, to assist them in securing 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, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.
You will work with colleagues in clinical/local agency teams, developing positive and integrated relationships, providing a holistic approach to recovery through employment.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, supervise and develop a team of IPS Employment Specialists, providing coaching, training and performance management to support high-quality service delivery.
- Maintain a personal caseload, supporting people with mental health challenges to secure and sustain paid employment through the IPS model.
- Ensure the service operates in line with IPS fidelity principles and delivers positive outcomes for clients.
- Identify learning and development needs within the team and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
- Build strong relationships with employers, community partners and mental health teams to create employment opportunities for clients.
- Produce reports for internal stakeholders and commissioners, monitoring performance and service quality.
- Lead on service promotion, communications and the sharing of positive employment recovery stories.
- Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details
- The person
- Significant experience supporting people with mental health needs, disabilities or other barriers to employment.
- Experience within employment support, supported employment or vocational rehabilitation services.
- Previous experience supervising, managing or mentoring staff.
- Understanding of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model and recovery-focused practice.
- Strong leadership, communication and relationship-building skills.
- Experience achieving performance targets and driving service improvement.
- Ability to work collaboratively with employers, health professionals and other stakeholders.
- Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details
- NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance (or equivalent experience) and a full driving licence.
- Experience of delivering IPS services within mental health settings.
- Supervisory or management qualification (or willingness to work towards one).
- Knowledge of employment legislation, welfare benefits and disability-related support.
- IPS training and/or lived experience of recovery from mental health difficulties.
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