Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to work within LPFT's Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Team as a Senior Mental Health Employment Specialist, working with service users in the Adult Community Division to help them to find and retain paid employment. The Senior Employment Specialist will be responsible for providing supervision and support to the IPS team members who are based across the county within Adult CMHTs.
The postholder will provide Individual Placement and Support (IPS) to a caseload of service users and assist the other Mental Health Employment Specialists with complex case management. As this is a developing service, the postholder will also work closely with the Service Lead to further develop / expand the service.
The Department of Health's 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.
Main duties of the job
This post requires both enthusiasm and a commitment towards supporting people with mental health conditions to access and retain 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's 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 "Good Fidelity" status with IPS Grow; you must be willing to undertake training in the model of IPS, the evidence-based intervention used by the service.
About us
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 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' 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're 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.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Sarah Jones, via email ats.jones120@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Sarah Jones, via email ats.jones120@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent experience
- oSpecialist knowledge in the field of supported employment or equivalent
- oNVQ Level 3/equivalent relevant training to diploma level and/or experience relevant to the duties of the post)
Desirable
- oOccupational Therapy, Social Work , Psychology or Employment qualifications
- oIPS training
- oMotivational interviewing training
Experience
Essential
- oExperience 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
- oExperience of working with a range of mental health service users (in health, social care and/or voluntary sectors) implementing individual programmes and interventions
- oExperience of actively and regularly engaging with employers and employment providers to seek out employment opportunities on behalf of service users
- oKnowledge of good practice in employment legislation protecting disability equality
- oAbility to identify and find solutions to improve the wider service over and above those improvements related to the role
- oExperience of constructing and reviewing individually tailored programmes using a person centred approach.
- oKnowledge of vocational assessment & profiling of service users' vocational needs
- oExperience of managing / supervising staff
- oExperience of service development / improvement initiatives
Desirable
- oRecent experience of working with service users to help them meet their employment-related goals.
- oExperience & knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability employment related benefits
- oPersonal experience of using Mental Health services
- oExperience of collecting caseload and outcome data
Skills
Essential
- oEnthusiasm and commitment towards supporting people with mental health problems find paid employment
- oWorking knowledge of appropriate therapeutic models to engage and retain service users in treatment and to support them achieve their vocational goals.
- oAn understanding of the benefits of work as part of the recovery process and a positive attitude to enabling service users overcome barriers to finding employment, are essential
- oExcellent marketing and promotional skills with an excellent negotiation skills & persuasive style
- oAble to analyse situations / information to identify and support service users to address their individual needs in relation to employment, education and training
- oExcellent organisational and time management skills
- oExcellent verbal and written communication skills
- oPresentation skills - able to make presentations in a variety of meetings / forums / teaching situations
- oAbility to work independently and collectively as part of a team
- oAbility to work autonomously and use own initiative
- oExcellent interpersonal skills
- oThorough understanding of mental health issues
- oAbility to embrace and adapt to new challenges
- oAbility to support an individual's recovery
- oKnowledge of local employment issues, relevant Government policy and Trust priorities
- oExcellent IT skills
Desirable
- oKnowledge of relevant welfare benefits and benefits rules
- oExperience of delivering training to a wide variety of colleagues and agencies internal and external to the Trust
Special Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to travel independently to other bases and Service User homes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent experience
- oSpecialist knowledge in the field of supported employment or equivalent
- oNVQ Level 3/equivalent relevant training to diploma level and/or experience relevant to the duties of the post)
Desirable
- oOccupational Therapy, Social Work , Psychology or Employment qualifications
- oIPS training
- oMotivational interviewing training
Experience
Essential
- oExperience 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
- oExperience of working with a range of mental health service users (in health, social care and/or voluntary sectors) implementing individual programmes and interventions
- oExperience of actively and regularly engaging with employers and employment providers to seek out employment opportunities on behalf of service users
- oKnowledge of good practice in employment legislation protecting disability equality
- oAbility to identify and find solutions to improve the wider service over and above those improvements related to the role
- oExperience of constructing and reviewing individually tailored programmes using a person centred approach.
- oKnowledge of vocational assessment & profiling of service users' vocational needs
- oExperience of managing / supervising staff
- oExperience of service development / improvement initiatives
Desirable
- oRecent experience of working with service users to help them meet their employment-related goals.
- oExperience & knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability employment related benefits
- oPersonal experience of using Mental Health services
- oExperience of collecting caseload and outcome data
Skills
Essential
- oEnthusiasm and commitment towards supporting people with mental health problems find paid employment
- oWorking knowledge of appropriate therapeutic models to engage and retain service users in treatment and to support them achieve their vocational goals.
- oAn understanding of the benefits of work as part of the recovery process and a positive attitude to enabling service users overcome barriers to finding employment, are essential
- oExcellent marketing and promotional skills with an excellent negotiation skills & persuasive style
- oAble to analyse situations / information to identify and support service users to address their individual needs in relation to employment, education and training
- oExcellent organisational and time management skills
- oExcellent verbal and written communication skills
- oPresentation skills - able to make presentations in a variety of meetings / forums / teaching situations
- oAbility to work independently and collectively as part of a team
- oAbility to work autonomously and use own initiative
- oExcellent interpersonal skills
- oThorough understanding of mental health issues
- oAbility to embrace and adapt to new challenges
- oAbility to support an individual's recovery
- oKnowledge of local employment issues, relevant Government policy and Trust priorities
- oExcellent IT skills
Desirable
- oKnowledge of relevant welfare benefits and benefits rules
- oExperience of delivering training to a wide variety of colleagues and agencies internal and external to the Trust
Special Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to travel independently to other bases and Service User homes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
East Coast Locality
To be discussed at interview
To be discussed at interview
LN1 1EJ
Employer's website
https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
