Senior Employment Specialist
4 weeks ago
**East Midlands Chamber is a well-respected and award winning organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With more than 4,000 members, we have established a reputation as the voice of the region's economy.**
**Job title**: Senior Employment Specialist
**Salary**:£31,000 to £34,000 per annum
**Based at**:Office based in Nottingham with regular travel required between delivery locations across Nottinghamshire
**Contract**: Fixed term until 31 March 2025, full time (35 hours per week)
**1. WHY THE POST EXISTS**
Do you have an understanding of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and the health and wellbeing landscape? Can you support people with significant barriers back into meaningful employment? Are you an experience team leader? If so, this role might be for you.
As a Senior Employment Specialist within the Employment Services department, you will make a real difference to the community by leading a team of Employment Specialists who support the delivery of the IPSPC Working Well East Midlands Programme in Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire. This programme aims to help people with physical and mental health conditions to secure or return to sustainable paid employment.
You will be an experienced proactive team leader, who thrives with challenging targets and helping others to achieve while putting participants needs at the heart of what we do.
**2. THE KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY**
- Oversee a group of Employment Specialists providing supervision, training and caseload management support.
- Operate as a role model for the Individual Placement and Support approach.
- Contribute to the effective management of a high-quality IPS service that meets fidelity standards and delivers positive outcomes for participants.
- Conduct daily caseload reviews to ensure accurate forecasting and target achievement.
- Complete Vocational Profiles and produce Action Plans.
- Provide job sustainment interventions.
- Lead by example in their approach to delivering employment support in particular through offering shadowing and learning opportunities.
- Provide weekly forecasts and other useful data to support monitoring, auditing and continual improvement.
- Actively identify and develop new business relationships with local employers.
- Work collaboratively with Primary Care and NHS teams, job centres, VCS organisations and training partners to maintain positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.
- Able and willing to travel across Nottinghamshire to meet participants and employers to ensure our services are accessible to all.
**3. IDEALLY APPLICANTS WILL POSSESS**
- Able to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally.
- Has experience of working toward and supporting others to work to challenging targets.
- Passionate about helping people to achieve their potential.
- A can-do, upbeat, professional and energetic attitude.
- Able to motivate team members and participants to support them in achieving their goals.
- Shows compassion and builds rapport with team members and participants.
- Has excellent local knowledge of support services and employment opportunities.
- Is dependable, reliable, trustworthy and capable of exercising diplomacy.
- Experience of managing a team within a welfare to work or IPS programme, or similar relevant role.
**4. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN RETURN**
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time).
- 8% non-contributory pension scheme.
- Wellbeing support including access to Westfield Health plan, Mental Health First Aiders, self help toolkits, discounts and more.
- Your Birthday off plus an extra day of leave after 5 and 10 years' service.
- Life assurance (death in service support scheme) for your beneficiaries.
- Dress for the day policy and agile working practices (role dependent).
- 2 CSR days to take per year (volunteering activity).
- Access to tax-free childcare and Bike2Work schemes.
- Special leave for bereavement, compassionate leave & dependent related time off.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Flexibility to take unpaid leave, paid study leave & special leave for territorial army.
- Recognition and engagement schemes including our Our Stars.
- Tax free 45p per business mile for cars (up to 10,000 miles per year).
**5. HOW TO APPLY**
If you have an enthusiastic approach to your work and feel you could make a significant contribution to our organisation, we would like to hear from you.
**6. COMPANY STATEMENT**
**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £31,000.00-£34,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- No weekends
Work Location: In person
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