Employment Specialist Band 5

1 month ago


Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We have a vacancy for an Employment Specialist based in Leighton Buzzard within our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Service within East London NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to join our well-established Employment Service which delivers mental health employment support across Bedfordshire and Luton.

For people who need mental health support, getting back into work is a vital step on their recovery journey. The evidence backs this up, but although 90% of people with severe mental illness want to work, only 8% of them are in paid employment.

That's why were looking for an individual to join our existing Employment Specialists, to champion our mission and help people who need employment support to get back into work. You will be supporting service users who are under the care of Secondary Mental Health services to gain and retain paid employment and will be based within a clinical team.

This is an incredibly rewarding role You'll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction and support with their recovery journey alongside other key professionals.

This is also a challenging role, so youll need to be empathetic, adaptable and dedicated to finding clients a role thats right for them.

As an Employment Specialist, youll build a good rapport with your service users, gaining a real understanding of their key skills, their aspirations and their career goals and finding them opportunities to match.

You'll also spend time building productive relationships with employers in order to identify and negotiate job opportunities in the hidden labour market.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

Successful applicants for this post will receive training in the IPS approach, giving you the tools you need to provide expert support and advice to service users, staff within your clinical team (e.g. Psychiatrist, Social Workers or Mental Health Nurse), while also building positive relationships with employers, opening doors and changing perceptions around mental health.



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