MULTIPLE posts available across Hertfordshire!!!

Each Community Services Hub provides a specialist care pathway to Service Users with Non pyschotic disorders and Personality disorder. They also provide specialist care pathways to those with psychotic disorders. Employment Support forms part of the pathways.

As the IPS Employment Specialist or IPS Retention Specialist, you will be responsible for providing Individual Placement Support (IPS) for all Service Users who are currently unemployed who express a desire to gain paid employment as part of their recovery goals. You will carry a caseload of up to 15-20 service users. There may be a requirement to support with job retention.

Main duties of the job

You will work intensively with a defined caseload of Service Users who have a severe and enduring mental health condition which impacts on their ability to gain work. You will assist them to obtain and sustain paid employment that is consistent with their goals, utilising the eight principles of Individual Placement Support (IPS).

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will work intensively with a defined caseload of Service Users who have a severe and enduring mental health condition which impacts on their ability to gain work. You will assist them to obtain and sustain paid employment that is consistent with their goals, utilising the eight principles of Individual Placement Support (IPS).

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS/ EDUCATION/TRAINING

Essential

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent

Desirable

• IPS trained
• Additional relevant training in areas of employment, mental health, coaching
• Job Retention Training

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Considerable experience of working with adults with MH difficulties in a health or social care setting
• Significant experience working in a role delivering employment support.

Desirable

• Supervision of junior staff
• Experience of partnership working, negotiation and liaison with other agencies

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY

Essential

• Knowledge of disability and special needs issues, policies and legislation in relation to employment
• Understanding of the principles and practice of IPS
• Knowledge of employment law
• Team orientated and work collaboratively within a mixed - disciplinary team
• Experience of partnership working, negotiation and liaison work with other agencies
• Experience of opening up job opportunities with a range of employers
• Ability to work with key IT tools such as MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Essential

• Ability to build rapport with a range of people
• Ability to provide and receive sensitive information regarding services users care and social situation
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Knowledge of appropriate professional relationships and boundaries
• Ability to negotiate and persuade appropriately prospective employers of benefits of offering work opportunities to Service Users
• Active listening skills, ability to ask perceptive questions that tease out important information
• Compelling written and verbal communication skills, tailored to a variety of audiences

Desirable

• Mentoring/Coaching Skills

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

Essential

• Ability to respond and adjust appropriately to the changing needs of service users
• Able to work independently and use initiative to think quickly on the spot in different, and often challenging situations
• Creative problem solving to tackle obstacles that arise and fulfil requirements of the role in innovative ways to deliver greater impact

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stevenage and Hitchin - HPFT sites in HERTFORDSHIRE

Hertfordshire

AL10 8YE

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