IPS Employment Specialist

An exciting opportunity to join BDCFT IPS service as an IPS Employment specialist is now available.

You would be joining the Service:

To work with clients (managing a caseload) who have severe and enduring mental health needs, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences.

To deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, providing person centred advice and guidance to clients whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

To work with individuals and groups in a variety of settings across Bradford District Care Trust in collaboration with health and social care professionals within the Community mental health teams, Primary Care Networks as well as outside agencies and employers.

To work directly with employers to secure employment opportunities, and subsequently to provide ongoing support according to both service users and employer's needs.

To hold specific responsibility and autonomy for delivering of contract Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) within an allocated team.

Main duties of the job

The work is incredibly rewarding and the main duties would be:

To deliver the evidenced based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model adhering to high fidelity standards.

To act as a champion to promote employment support within the Bradford District Care Foundation Trust.

To be integrated within a team, working with care co-ordinators and other health and social care professionals to identify service users who are motivated to seek paid employment.

To manage a caseload of around 20 clients who have severe and enduring mental health conditions prioritising your own workload.

To work through the 6 key stages of the Employment Service framework with each Service User.

Work directly with all relevant stakeholders: the service user, CMHT staff, Social Prescribers, Primary Care Mental health workers, Consultant Psychiatrists and employers, to support service users to achieve their employment goal.

Meet and support clients to understand their key skills, aspirations and goals through completing a Vocational Profile and produce an Action Plan to help them obtain and sustain competitive employment. This includes support with their job search, CV production, application forms, interview techniques and career development.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value differenceWe Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needsWe Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partnersWe will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :Increase mileage rates for > 3500A wide range of health and wellbeing support packagesA range of internal and external development and learning opportunitiesPlus many more.We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to
identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.