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Overview:
Do you value the importance of employment in recovery?
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence based programme supporting clients to find meaningful and sustainable paid employment based on their preferences.
IPS was first brought into mental health services, supporting clients with severe mental illness into employment and is now being rolled out in drug and alcohol services.
The below videos provide information on IPS and the role of an **Employment Specialist**. Please note the videos are based on mental health services but this role is working in **drug and alcohol treatment teams (each video is around 1 minute long)**
**What is IPS Employment Support?**
**What is an Employment Specialist?**
CGL (Change Grow Live) are now recruiting for a Senior IPS Employment Specialist to manage the IPS employment team alongside recovery services to support Service Users who are wanting to find paid employment. This role will be based in the Greater Manchester area.
The Senior Employment Specialist will manage a team of three Employment Specialists alongside the management and operational delivery of the scheme which will include overseeing the budget, strategic relationships, pathways development, employer partnerships and ensuring the contract hits key performance indicators.
As this is a Senior Employment Specialist position, you should ideally have some knowledge and/or experience of working in IPS.
As the IPS service is new to CGL Manchester, you will lead the growing team of Employment Specialists, providing employment support within the treatment teams. The IPS team work closely with drug and alcohol treatment teams in a co-ordinated approach. This role is target driven to ensure a high quality service is delivered.
**About You**:
- Excellent communication skills and ability to form effective working relationships
- Knowledge of how to manage and support a team effectively
- Ability to collate and report data for the IPS service
- Effective management style to ensure staff are supported
- Drive to support individuals who want to find paid employment
- Ability to approach Employers, build relationships and broker opportunities
- The belief that with the right support, everyone can find paid employment
- Ability to achieve and excel in a target driven environment
- Negotiation skills
- Drive, passion and commitment to supporting our service users to find employment
- Proven ability to build rapport with people and especially understanding issues for people with affected by substance misuse or similar conditions
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong written skills/verbal/ organisational skills
**Responsibilities**:
**_ Do you want to work for a Charity that believes in people?_**
**_ Do you want to be involved in something new that changes lives?_**
**_ As a part of the Change Grow Live team you’ll help people get to where they want to be and make a difference._**
CGL have been a leading provider of recovery focused drug and alcohol services across England and Wales for over 20 years. Our innovation and creative approach allows us to provide a broad range of safe, high-quality health and social care services. This post comes with:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Dedicated professional development time
- Weekly wellbeing hours
- Career advancement opportunities
- Access to excellent training programmes
- Generous annual leave allowance.
Before you go, we just wanted to mention that Change Grow Live are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates differences and allows our staff and service users to flourish. We recruit the very best people from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service users benefit from our diverse skills and expertise. We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in al our recruitment processes.
If you think this sounds like your ideal job, we would love to hear from you.
