Deputy Senior Employment Adviser

Provide mentoring and coaching to Employment Advisers to facilitate personal and professional development contributing to overall effectiveness of both staff and our service.

Provide one to one supervision with Employment Advisers for caseload review to problem solve and identify strategies to support clients.

Undertake line management to ensure supervisee goals align with Trust objectives and promote wellbeing to keep the employment lead and senior managers updated on progress, outcomes, and any emerging issues.

Collaborate via face-to-face, video calls (MS Teams) telephone and emails.

Monitor performance of Employment Advisers to meet service requirement in line with service specific KPIs.

Collate KPI data for the Employment Lead to monitor and evaluate our service.

Assist with managing and triaging referrals for allocation.

Research national and local sources of employment support and guidance adding to the Employment Team bank of resources.

Offer tailored Advice, Information and Guidance to clients who require help to gain sustainable employment; stay in employment or return to work after sickness absence.

Work in partnership with a range of stakeholders and services to promote employability, health, and wellbeing.

Contribute to development and delivery of GTTT employment webinars.

Work collaboratively with the employment lead and DWP to assist research and evaluation and develop solutions that support continuous service improvement.

An exciting opportunity for a full time motivated and enthusiastic Deputy Senior Employment Adviser to join the Employment Team within Greenwich NHS Talking Therapy Service.

You will be working in a supportive and fast-paced environment, reporting direct to the Employment Lead. You will provide line management and supervision to Employment Advisers. You will hold a caseload helping people with low mood and/or anxiety with practical employment matters.

As part of our team, you will work alongside Employment Advisers, clients, clinicians, and therapists.

A key part of this role will include generating and presenting KPI specific data to the Employment Lead for review and evaluation. You will possess a high level of IT literacy, including Excel, across various software packages.

You will have excellent organisational, communication and time management skills and be able to prioritise effectively.

The successful candidate will work a minimum of two days a week at our main office in Eltham in line with our service Hybrid model.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our
medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind


• We're Fair


• We Listen


• We Care
  
  Fixed term: initially confirmed to November 2025 with likely extension subject to continued funding.


Full Time: 37.50 hours per week

Would you like to be part of leading and developing a core provision of the National Employment Adviser in NHS Talking Therapies initiative?