Deputy Senior Employment Adviser

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?
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., · 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., + Promoting the EA in NHS Talking Therapies model and supporting the employment lead to work with senior clinicians to ensure that the employment team are fully embedded in the Greenwich Time to Talk service.
+ Manage and supervise a team of EAs ensuring that EAs work effectively with clinicians so that employment support is a central concern of every member of staff in the service.
+ Work with the employment lead to ensure that therapists and EAs work together to deliver personalised packages of psychological treatment and employment support to create combined care pathways to support individuals with common mental health problems to gain, return to or retain employment.
+ Assist the employment lead with reporting on the performance of the team against EA in NHS Talking Therapy Targets.
+ Lead the team to develop good working relations with local employers, trade unions, Job Centre Plus and other organisations forming the local labour market.
+ Hold their own reduced caseload enabling them to provide supervision of EAs.
+ Provide non-clinical oversight of clients' progression through the service whilst accessing employment support.
+ Promote and circulate information on unemployment benefits and JCP services, labour market information, local employers and their recruitment practices, workplace solutions and provision for people with MH conditions both nationally and especially within the local community.
Management responsibilities
+ Support the employment lead to operationalise the aims of EA in NHS Talking Therapies.
+ Assist with strategic oversight of the GTTT employment provision and work collaboratively with the employment lead and others to continuously improve the service.
+ Provide advice to the Service Leads on professional development issues for the Employment staff.
+ Short list and interview applicants alongside the employment lead for employment advisor posts. Induct and supervise employment advisors.
+ To assist in the maintenance of up-to-date protocols for the care pathway to employment services, + Assist the employment lead in consultation to clinical staff in the NHS Talking Therapies service around employment issues.
+ Support the employment lead in teaching clinical staff how to assess employment needs and refer appropriately to the employment team.
+ Enable the upskilling of other GTTT staff on the employment agenda through coaching and education.
+ Support continued professional development of EAs.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

Working for our organisation
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