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37.5 Hours Per Week
My name is Amy Worrall and I am a Team Manager for NHS Kirklees Talking Therapies. We provide psychological therapy and treatment for people with common mental health problems throughout Kirklees.
As part of a national initiative, we are looking to offer Employment Support to clients using the service. An exciting opportunity has now arisen for Employment Advisors to offer support to clients using the service to help people gain work or to maintain their current jobs.
This will allow us to not only focus on helping clients to recover, but to assist people to maintain and add to their functioning in an important aspect of their lives.
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As an Employment Advisor, you will assist service users suffering from common mental health problems with their employment needs.
You will liaise with managers, senior clinicians and therapists within the team to ensure clients are on the correct employment support pathway as well as build relationships with third sector organisations and stakeholders.
You will also be required to attend regular clinical and management supervision and engage in continued professional development.
This vacancy is a fixed term 2 year position.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
The post holder will manage a caseload of 25 to 35 service users within The Kirklees Talking Therapies service. The Employment Advisor will work with the clinician and the client to produce a personalised action plan to ensure that psychological treatment and employment support are provided to support the individual to improve their mental health and meet their stated employment goals, which may be to improve their current employment or find alternative work.
The role is to work directly with all relevant stakeholders; including, service users, mental health staff in community teams, Vocational teams and local partner agencies including Job centre Plus, Work & Health Programme providers, employers, trade unions and employment agencies to support people to stay in employment and secure employment opportunities. A key part of the role is to actively engage with employers to enable service users to gain paid employment and to sustain this with ongoing support within employment as required.
To ensure that all service users who say they want to gain paid employment are successful in accessing/gaining and retaining paid employment.
To work with clients accessing the Kirklees Talking Therapies Team to find work, maintain work and provide advice and guidance to clients irrespective of the work status.
To work directly with all relevant stakeholders and external agencies to ensure that the service users meet their employment goals. This includes mental health teams, employers, local DWP, Jobcentre Plus, trade unions, the Council Business, Work and Health Provider Programmes and Economy and other Council teams.
Spend time getting to know local employers in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individuals strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.
To ensure that service users support needs are identified in terms of barriers to employment, disclosure with the agreement of the individual and reasonable adjustments.
To ensure as much as possible that the quality of work environments is explored including potential for workplace adjustments to accommodate individual strengths, skills and coping strategies.
To support service users to training and education courses as appropriate.
To provide information, advice and guidance to assist clients to get back to work if off sick including gaining access to Occupational Health, encouraging employers to consider a graduated return to work, and development of back to work plans.
To provide support with CVs, interviews, rapid job searching, and applications for employment as required.
To provide the individual and employer with individualised support in work on an ongoing basis and help the person sustain employment as agreed with the individual.
To maintain and update accurate records within the required IT systems to ensure prompt communication with the Multi-disciplinary team around progress, change or adverse events.
The post holder will manage a caseload of 25 to 35 service users within The Kirklees Talking Therapies service. The Employment Advisor will work with the clinician and the client to produce a personalised action plan to ensure that psychological treatment and employment support are provided to support the individual to improve their mental health and meet their stated employment goals, which may be to improve their current employment or find alternative work.
The role is to work directly with all relevant stakeholders; including, service users, mental health staff in community teams, Vocational teams and local partner agencies including Job centre Plus, Work & Health Programme providers, employers, trade unions and employment agencies to support people to stay in employment and secure employment opportunities. A key part of the role is to actively engage with employers to enable service users to gain paid employment and to sustain this with ongoing support within employment as required.
To ensure that all service users who say they want to gain paid employment are successful in accessing/gaining and retaining paid employment.
To work with clients accessing the Kirklees Talking Therapies Team to find work, maintain work and provide advice and guidance to clients irrespective of the work status.
To work directly with all relevant stakeholders and external agencies to ensure that the service users meet their employment goals. This includes mental health teams, employers, local DWP, Jobcentre Plus, trade unions, the Council Business, Work and Health Provider Programmes and Economy and other Council teams.
Spend time getting to know local employers in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individuals strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.
To ensure that service users support needs are identified in terms of barriers to employment, disclosure with the agreement of the individual and reasonable adjustments.
To ensure as much as possible that the quality of work environments is explored including potential for workplace adjustments to accommodate individual strengths, skills and coping strategies.
To support service users to training and education courses as appropriate.
To provide information, advice and guidance to assist clients to get back to work if off sick including gaining access to Occupational Health, encouraging employers to consider a graduated return to work, and development of back to work plans.
To provide support with CVs, interviews, rapid job searching, and applications for employment as required.
To provide the individual and employer with individualised support in work on an ongoing basis and help the person sustain employment as agreed with the individual.
To maintain and update accurate records within the required IT systems to ensure prompt communication with the Multi-disciplinary team around progress, change or adverse events.