Employment Advisor

**Employment Advisor**:
**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Employment Advisor
- **Grade**
- Band 4
- **Contract**
- 9 months (Fixed term until the end of March 2025)
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-24-345**Site**
- Talking Therapies
- **Town**
- Roche
- **Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 03/06/2024 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
**Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling career that makes a positive impact on people’s mental health and well-being?**

**Do you have a passion for helping people find and sustain employment that suits their needs and aspirations?**

**If so, we want to hear from you**

Talking Therapies are looking for Employment Advisors to work alongside their team of therapists to ensure that a personalised package of combined psychological treatment and employment support is available to all service users.

This role is part of a new employment advice service where you will be supporting service users with remaining in employment, returning to employment following a period of absence or seeking new employment.

You will need to be enthusiastic and motivated with a caring and positive approach to succeed in this role.

We have positions available across the county at our Liskeard, Roche, and Saltash bases.

This is a Fixed Term role until the end of March 2025.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Conduct an employment assessment, discussing the person’s job goals and any concerns regarding their capacity for work. To examine barriers preventing them from paid employment
and whether the individual could develop strategies to address them.
- Utilise specialist advisory skills to support people, who are facing complex employment situations related to mental ill health to obtain, return to or retain employment.
- Refer and signpost the person to other support if they have particularly complex barriers.
- Where appropriate provide help to find the right job and provide advice and support on training and also how to prepare for employer interviews.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live he