Employment Specialist

4 weeks ago

Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom Sovereign & Bale Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Employment Specialist to join our team at Sovereign & Bale. As an Employment Specialist, you will play a vital role in supporting individuals with mental health support needs to secure sustainable paid employment.

Your primary responsibility will be to deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, providing person-centered advice and guidance to clients, while building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

You will work closely with clients to understand their key skills, aspirations, and goals, and develop an action plan to help them obtain and sustain competitive employment. This includes support with job search, CV production, application forms, interview techniques, and career development.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage a caseload of around 20 clients who have mental health support needs who are motivated to start/return to work.
  • Deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach.
  • Meet and support clients to understand their key skills, aspirations, and goals through completing a Vocational Profile and produce an Action Plan to help them obtain and sustain competitive employment.
  • Assess client's support needs related to work which may include benefits/welfare advice, disclosure of mental health symptoms etc., and provide support & guidance.
  • Attend weekly clinical team meetings as an embedded IPS practitioner.
  • Source job opportunities for clients through tailored job search and regular contact with local employers to explore hidden as well as advertised employment opportunities.
  • Provide education and support to employers, as agreed with the individual, which may include negotiating adjustments, return to work strategy and on-going contact with the employer to ensure job retention.
  • Build relationships with colleagues in clinical teams to engage and generate referrals and create collaborative working partnerships with clinical staff (promoting employment as a positive intervention in the recovery journey).
  • Once employment has been secured continue to provide quality service through conducting regular visits, effective monitoring and in-work support to clients and employers to help sustain employment.
  • Spend time getting to know local employers, in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individual's strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.
  • To challenge inequalities experienced by clients and address existing discrimination, whilst ensuring a process of learning for the organisation
  • Work with employers to promote the service, identify job opportunities and ensure appropriate strategies are in place to reduce barriers in the work place – this can include exploring 'job carving' i.e. carving small slices of work from the duties other staff do not have time to do.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Experience/understanding of working with people with mental health support 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 mental health services
  • Previous experience of delivering a service using the IPS model

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