Ips Employment Specialist

As part of the expansion of the IPS service we are able to offer exciting opportunities, for 4 permanent full time, Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Specialists in Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Trust in the following areas within the community mental health team:

- Ilkeston
- Matlock

The Employment Specialists will be working with people who have a severe mental illness and support them into competitive employment and then enabling them to retain that employment.

The IPS team currently has 3 Peer Support workers, 7 Employment specialists, 1 Team Manager and 1 Service manager.

**The areas across Derbyshire where we work are**: Bolsover and Clay Cross, Amber Valley, Erewash, Derby city, South and South Dales and Buxton.

We also partner with South Yorkshire Housing who cover Chesterfield and Killamarsh.

You will meet with clients in the relevant communities in Derbyshire, and you will be required to travel around the area to meet clients and employers. Therefore, you will need access to your own vehicle. The post will be embedded within our community mental health team and you will work as part of a Trust-wide employment team.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Your caseload will be referred to you by clinical staff from the aforementioned Community Mental Health Teams on a voluntary basis and will be referred via our electronic patient system.

As this is a new role, there is currently no caseload and you will be expected to use your skills to promote the service to the CMHT.

You will attend the weekly CMHT and IPS teams meeting to introduce yourself and give positive feedback about the success of the service in the other areas to increase referral numbers.

Your caseload will consist of 20 people and you are expected to work with them on an individual basis in the community.

This could mean meeting in a library, coffee shop, community hub, town centre, but not in their home and not in a clinical setting.

Each person will have different needs and you must have excellent interpersonal skills to actively engage them, build trust and have an understanding of the impact of what being out of work for a long time does to a person.

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

**Benefits include**:

- Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
- 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service pro rata for part time
- Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Incremental pay progression
- Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
- Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
- Structured learning and development opportunities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account

As an Employment Specialist you will be looking for paid employment opportunities for clients who are currently involved with the working age adult community mental health services in Derbyshire Healthcare Trust (including our early intervention in psychosis services).

This will involve developing opportunities with local employers and supporting them, as well as the client, to ensure the right person is in the right job.

Working with our clients, you will liaise and signpost to a range of employment opportunities within the local area, to include Job Centre Plus and job carving with local employers.

Developing your knowledge and networks of employment-related support services and inclusive employers within the local area is essential to this role.

The successful applicants will establish ongoing monitoring and support systems for clients once employment is secured.

This will include review of work placements to ensure that this is meeting both clients and employer’s needs.

This will also include offering support to employers and clients with any problems that may arise, and promoting disability awareness among employers to ensure a positive integration of our clients into the workforce.

Supervision and support will be offered on a regular basis with ongoing training and development opportunities relevant to the post.

**The targets are**: to engage 45 clients per year, 22 jobs and 60% of these remaining in work for at least 13 weeks.

You will also be expected to visit with 6 employers per week to tell them about our service and to fin