Team Leader - IPS and Supported Employment - East Riding

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. 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.

Overview: Subject to Contract Award and any legal standstill post award.

Purpose: To lead a team of Supported Employment and IPS (Individual Placement Support) Employment Specialists 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 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:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
• Understanding/Experience of the Supported Employment and/or IPS model
• Demonstrable evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Experience of managing remote working teams and performance management procedures
• Experience of internal (and external) partnership working
• Demonstrable experience of successfully working to targets
• Experience with improving systems and processes
• Excellent verbal and written skills and ability to communicate concisely and effectively
• Demonstrable experience of providing excellent customer service skills
• Understanding of our participant group and the barriers they may face
• Skilled in coaching and guiding people to maximise potential
• Knowledge and understanding of the relationship between employment and mental health

Location: This is a peripatetic role working in the community in and around Hull - there is minimal home working as you will be expected to be out and about supporting your teams, generating new referral pathways and ensuring clinical integration and employer engagement are top priorities.

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
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan

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. 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.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: Resourcing@shaw-trust.org.uk

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