IPS Employment Specialist

IPS Employment Specialist

Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership (Double Impact)

• Full Time
• Locations: Could include Lincoln, Gainsborough, Skegness, and surrounding villages
• Travel: is paid - minus home to base, each way - at 45p per mile for electric vehicles and 1.3CC or below - 54p per mile for vehicles 1.4CC or above.
• Holidays: 35 (including bank holiday) - increasing with service.
• Closing Date/Interviews: Please apply early as once we have achieved the required number of applicants we will close the advert.

Job description

Our expanding and successful employment service is looking for a new team member

Are you passionate about helping others and ready for a new challenge? Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership is looking for a dynamic individual to join us as an IPS Employment Specialist.

Could you walk into businesses every week and encourage an employer to consider one of your clients for employment?

Experience working in employment support is great but if you other attributes like transferable skills, personal experience of drug/alcohol use yourself or within your family, or a desire to make a difference, we want you to apply as well (Please detail this information in your application.)

As part of our team, you'll receive full training on the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model that we use to get people into employment. IPS is an internationally recognised approach that is now used with 95% of the drug and alcohol treatment services in the UK; as well as within various health settings like the NHS, and as a model for the new DWP Connect to Work scheme.

Join us in making a positive impact on lives across Lincolnshire.

Key responsibilities:

1. To manage a caseload of around 25 clients in structured treatment for substance use who are motivated to start/return to work
2. To initiate job search and contact with employers quickly – within 4 weeks – building relationships to the benefit of your clients
3. To provide individualised unlimited support to participants and their employer which may include, but is not limited to, employer education and support, return to work strategies and negotiation around workplace adjustments to ensure job retention
4. To provide participants/clients with broad advice and signposting around welfare benefits to enable them to make informed decisions about work
5. To support the integration of the IPS approach into the substance use treatment service with the Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership to include attendance at clinical team meetings as an embedded IPS practitioner.

About you:

• We would like you to have some knowledge of the IPS model (or have researched it)
• We would like you to have experience of talking to people and helping people move forward in some way.
• We want great communication skills and the ability to build relationships with everyone from clients up to CEO's.
• Negotiation skills and commercial acumen
• Drive, passion and commitment
• Proven ability to build rapport with people and especially understanding issues for people with by substance misuse issues.
• Boundless enthusiasm, excellent teamwork and the ability to work in a target driven environment
• Strong written skills/verbal/ organisational skills

For an informal discussion or more information please contact Danny Sheehan on

To apply for the role please send your CV and a personal statement to

To find out more about the IPS approach please visit

Although you will work as part of the Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership you will be employed by Double Impact – A Recovery from Addiction organisation - Double Impact - Recovery from Addiction. Double Impact embraces diversity and takes a pro-active approach to equality in services and employment. Registered Charity No

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £30, 429

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £30,429.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Work Location: In person