Employment Advisor

My name is Amy Worrall and I am a Team Manager for NHS Kirklees Talking Therapies. We provide psychological therapy and treatment for people with common mental health problems throughout Kirklees.

As part of a national initiative, we are looking to offer Employment Support to clients using the service. An exciting opportunity has now arisen for Employment Advisors to offer support to clients using the service to help people gain work or to maintain their current jobs.

This will allow us to not only focus on helping clients to recover, but to assist people to maintain and add to their functioning in an important aspect of their lives.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form., As an Employment Advisor, you will assist service users suffering from common mental health problems with their employment needs.

You will liaise with managers, senior clinicians and therapists within the team to ensure clients are on the correct employment support pathway as well as build relationships with third sector organisations and stakeholders.

You will also be required to attend regular clinical and management supervision and engage in continued professional development.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.