Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-11279-AC
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 9, The Point
- Town
- Sleaford
- Salary
- 拢29,970 - 拢36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Retention Employment Specialist
Band 5
Job overview
The Department of Health鈥檚 strategy for mental health includes the drive to ensure that those with mental health conditions have access to recovery focused interventions, including support to gain meaningful, paid employment and to maintain this.
An opportunity has arisen to work within LPFT鈥檚 Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Team as a Mental Health Retention Employment Specialist, working with service users in the Adult Community Division to help them with their employment goals. This is a full time post, covering the South of the County.
The post holders will provide Individual Placement and Support to a caseload of service users mainly in defined localities within Lincolnshire but cover for other geographical areas covered by the Trust may be required if the need arises.
Main duties of the job
This post require both enthusiasm and a commitment towards supporting people with mental health conditions to retain and access paid employment. This includes working collaboratively with a wide range of employers and relevant agencies and partners from the statutory, voluntary and business sectors, internal and external to the Trust.
An understanding of the benefits of employment as part of the recovery process and a positive attitude to enabling service users to overcome barriers within employment, are essential. The post will involve working in the community and requires the ability to work autonomously, working closely with teams across the Trust鈥檚 Adult Community Division in Lincolnshire.
You will be educated to degree level or hold equivalent experience in the field of supported employment, have knowledge of the national employment and welfare benefits agenda; and have skills and recent experience of working with people with mental health conditions. LPFT holds a 鈥淕ood Fidelity鈥 status with IPS Grow; you must be willing to undertake training in the model of IPS, the evidence-based intervention used by the service.
If you require further information on this post please contact:
Jasmine Fawcett 鈥 IPS Team Manager 鈥 [email protected]
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 鈥榦utstanding鈥 for well-led and 鈥榞ood鈥 overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We鈥檙e really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support and advocate on behalf of secondary care mental health service users who are at risk of losing their job, due to mental illness.
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To provide advice and ongoing support on issues including employment rights, reasonable adjustments, and phased return to work plans. To support with advice on tribunals and employment termination applications.听听
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Provide workplace support to the service user and employer to promote inclusion and reduce discrimination and stigma.
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Support service users to identify and meet their vocational goals by providing individually tailored programs using a person centered approach
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Complete initial assessments of service users鈥 vocational needs, working collaboratively with service users to complete a Vocational Profile. Support service users to complete job applications and compile CVs.
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Actively and regularly engage with employers and employment providers and seek out employment opportunities for service users.
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Proactively address barriers to education, training and employment through partnership working with services
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Ensure effective communication with CMHT colleagues and relevant organisations internal and external to the Trust.
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Ensure that service users are supported to progress through the service in a timely manner and are discharged / signposted / referred on at appropriate stages of their treatment.
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Make regular written and verbal reports concerning the progress of service users, and maintain written and electronic records as per Trust policy.
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Attend and actively contribute to team meetings and peer supervision.
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Attend and actively contribute to CMHT team allocation meetings/convene case review meetings (as required)
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Ensure that you are fully aware of the IPS Fidelity Scale and the sections within this as these need to be achieved as part of Service requirements
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Contribute positively to the achievement of service targets and outcomes to achieve commissioners requirements and target
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Complete required records for caseload and service activity and achievement of outcomes.
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Ensure compliance to the policies, procedures and working practices of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and local and National guidance and standards.
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Review and actively contribute to the development of the service in line with best practice and evidence based interventions.
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Execute additional tasks in order to meet departmental project-related or development and change objectives.
Line manage and supervise support staff on a daily basis
Participate in the provision of an extended hour鈥檚 service, if required to do so.
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Participate in the provision of an extended hour鈥檚 service, if required to do so
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Work flexibly across the county to support service need
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level Or equivalent experience in the field of supported employment
- Or NVQ Level 3/equivalent relevant training to diploma level and/or experience relevant to the duties of the post)
Desirable criteria
- Occupational Therapy, Social Work , Psychology or Employment qualifications
- IPS training
- Motivational interviewing training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of initiating, liaising and collaborating with a wide range of individuals and organisations promoting and developing employment, education and training opportunities on behalf of service users
- Experience of working with a range of mental health service users (in health, social care and/or voluntary sectors) implementing individual programmes and interventions.
- Experience of actively and regularly engaging with employers and employment providers to seek out employment opportunities on behalf of service users
- Knowledge of good practice in employment legislation protecting disability equality
- Ability to identify and find solutions to improve the wider service over and above those improvements related to the role
- Experience of constructing and reviewing individually tailored programmes using a person centred approach.
- Knowledge of vocational assessment & profiling of service users鈥 vocational needs
Desirable criteria
- Recent experience of working with service users to help them meet their employment-related goals.
- Experience & knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability employment related benefits
- Personal experience of using Mental Health services
- Experience of collecting caseload and outcome data
- Experience of managing and supervising support staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- Enthusiasm and commitment towards supporting people with mental health problems find paid employment.
- Working knowledge of appropriate therapeutic models to engage and retain service users in treatment and to support them achieve their vocational goals.
- An understanding of the benefits of work as part of the recovery processand a positive attitude to enabling service users overcome barriers to finding employment, are essential
- Excellent marketing and promotional skills with an excellent negotiation skills & persuasive style
- Able to analyse situations / information to identify and support service users to address their individual needs in relation to employment, education and training
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collectively as part of a team
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Thorough understanding of mental health issues.
- Ability to embrace and adapt to new challenges
- Ability to support an individual鈥檚 recovery
- Knowledge of local employment issues, relevant Government policy and Trust priorities
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of relevant welfare benefits and benefits rules
- Experience of delivering training to a wide variety of colleagues and agencies internal and external to the Trust
Special requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently to other bases and Service User homes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jasmine Fawcett
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07989851998
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