IPS Team Leader - Kent

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Purpose

To lead a team of IPS (Individual Placement Support) Employment Specialists or Supported Employment Specialists in Kent providing: training, mentoring, supervision, and compliance to the IPS approach. Resulting in the consistent delivery of quality service standards in a designated area, to ensure contract targets of: referrals (starts on provision), engagement activity, employment outcomes and Fidelity delivery compliance.

They will communicate with key stakeholders ranging from, but not exhaustive to: Primary Care (GPs / health centres) / JCPs / Local Authority functions / Community services and other local partners, to ensure the provision is integrated at a local community level. The role will support the Service Manager in maximising service outcomes and work closely with the wider Shaw Trust IPS and Supported Employment teams.

The individual will hold overall accountability for collective KPI and Fidelity results of their designated area and will be expected to address any areas of underperformance in a proficient and timely manner.

Essential:

• Understanding/Experience of the IPS (E)
• Experience of managing remote working teams and performance management procedures (E)
• Experience of internal (and external) partnership working (E)
• Demonstrable experience of successfully working to targets (E)
• Experience with improving systems and processes (E)

This is a peripheric role working in the community with no/minimal home working. There will be a number of positions across Kent & Medway.

Employee Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Women's Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Menopause Peer Support Group, The MANaging Network, The Young Professionals Network and Back to Work Support Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation. Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition; we are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme. We are proud to hold the menopause friendly accreditation, hosting a regular Menopause Peer Support Groups providing a safe space for colleagues to share experiences or ask questions.

Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

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Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.