Employment Advisor

4 weeks ago

Medway, United Kingdom Insight IAPT Full time

**This is an excellent opportunity to join our organisation and make a real difference to the local communities we serve**

This important role works in the context of our NHS Talking Therapies services across Kent and Medway to provide holistic and skills-based interventions, information, and practical support to help people receiving IAPT services to:

- Retain employment
- Exchange employment for another more suitable role
- Return to employment from a period of sickness absence from work
- Access employment for the first time or after a substantial period of absence from the labour market

Following the announcement of a national £122 million investment we are expanding our highly successful Employment Advisor in NHS Talking Therapies Team from Medway into Kent. We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about empowering people to make positive changes in their work life.

**About you**

We would love to hear from you if you possess the following:

- Experience of working in mental health or social care sector and providing advice, guidance and employment support to people with disabilities or other vulnerable groups.
- Ability to collate and analyse data and present material clearly and concisely.
- Ability to work on your own initiative, use own judgement and make decisions.
- Be reflective of own working practices and open to change and improvement
- Very good organisational and time management skills, able to manage and prioritise own work.
- A thorough understanding of the support needs of vulnerable individuals in relation to gaining employment.
- Experience working in a IAPT service (desirable)

**For the full job description and person specification for this role, please refer to the supporting document.**

**What we offer in return**

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) and the option to purchase or sell days
- Enhanced pension
- Wagestream - ability to release earnings, giving you instant access to your pay
- Refer a Friend payment
- Cycle to work & enhanced car schemes
- Vitality Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
- Free Will Writing and Confidential Financial Advice
- Fully funded flu vaccines
- Technology salary sacrifice scheme for home appliances, tablets, mobiles, TV’s, fitness trackers and more
- Various colleague networks including neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ and BAME
- Bi-monthly values awards, where winners receive gift vouchers and a tree planted in their honor
- Ongoing CPD - Through our brand new 'Elevate' programme, we work with experts from across the country to bring high-quality CPD to our teams, to help further their skills and knowledge and improve the support we provide
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Volunteer programme
- Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary

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