Role Overview
Working with clients, health professionals, service providers and employers, IPS Employment Specialists focus on ensuring a person’s journey into employment, with associated improved social inclusion and wellbeing, is as easy as possible. You will manage a caseload of clients with mental health support needs, assisting them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences. Your role involves delivering the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach—training will be provided—providing person‑centred advice and guidance to clients, while building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment. You will work as part of a community mental health team and/or an early intervention psychosis team or Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) team, maintaining positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment. The position is peripatetic and will spend the majority of time in the community or at clinical hubs; there is no or minimal home working.
Typical Employment Journey
- Outreach/referral
- Vocational profiling
- Action planning
- Job search activities (including working on a one‑to‑one basis with employers to match clients with appropriate employment)
- Job placement and coordinating support while in employment
- Managing withdrawal of support as the in‑work support is no longer required
Experience and Skills
- Experience or understanding of working with people with mental health support needs, or a similar client group within health, social services or the voluntary sector (E)
- Experience of working with someone on a one‑to‑one basis (E)
- Proven experience of meeting and exceeding outcomes and targets (E)
- Experience of managing multiple tasks at any one time (E)
- Previous experience of working assertively to influence decision makers (E)
- Experience of supporting people to obtain or keep work (E)
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