Senior IPS Employment Specialist

3 days ago


Dover, United Kingdom Sovereign & Bale Full time
Job Title: Senior IPS Employment Specialist

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior IPS Employment Specialist to join our team at Sovereign & Bale. As a Senior IPS Employment Specialist, you will play a key role in leading a small team of Employment Specialists and delivering the IPS journey to a reduced caseload of clients.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage a small team of Employment Specialists to ensure the service meets and exceeds its objectives, including adherence to the fidelity model and contractual outcomes.
  • Lead, develop, and supervise the Employment Specialists using the evidence-based IPS model, ensuring that the service delivers against budget and employment targets.
  • Provide field mentoring and observations to ensure continuous improvement in key areas of service provision, including employer engagement.
  • Monitor and manage the performance of the IPS Employment Specialists, guiding them individually on best practice and achieving individual job outcome targets.
  • Create a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Identify training needs of staff and arrange appropriate training to support continuous professional development.
  • Involve service users in co-production of service developments where possible.
  • Provide solution-focused IPS monthly supervisions for each employment specialist within the team, including caseload management.
  • Lead by example, managing a caseload of around 10-15 clients who have a severe and enduring mental health condition, who are motivated to start/return to work.
  • Deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach while ensuring delivery is consistent across the service.
  • Assess clients' support needs related to work, which may include benefits/welfare advice, disclosure of mental health symptoms, etc., and provide support & guidance.
  • Ensure all Employment Specialists work in partnership with clinical teams, attending weekly clinical team meetings as an embedded IPS practitioner.

Requirements:

  • Experience of managing remote working teams and performance management.
  • Experience/understanding of working with people with severe and enduring mental health needs, or a similar client group within health, social services, or the voluntary sector.
  • Experience of working with someone on a one-to-one basis.
  • Proven experience of meeting and exceeding outcomes and targets.
  • Experience of managing multiple tasks at any one time.
  • Previous experience of working assertively to influence decision makers.
  • Experience of supporting people to obtain or keep work.
  • Experience of working within secondary mental health services or similar.
  • Previous experience of delivering a service using the IPS model.
  • Experience of internal (and external) partnership working.
  • Ability to use initiative when required and take a problem-solving approach to work tasks.
  • Ability to work well as part of a team and independently when required.
  • Empathy with the needs of those with mental health support needs.
  • Passion and drive to make a positive difference to people's lives.
  • Highly motivated with a genuine belief that someone with a mental health condition can find paid employment.


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