Individual Placement & Support Team Leader

Job overview

Would you like to support mental health team service users to achieve recovery through paid work?

An exciting opportunity for experienced Team Lead has arisen within the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust's Individual Placement & Support (IPS) team.

The post holder will lead a team of up to 10 Employment Specialists in East Riding, providing supervision, training, caseload management, mentoring, and role modelling of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach.  They will manage a high-quality service that meets Fidelity standards, specified targets, and delivers positive outcomes for service users.

Main duties of the job

• Effectively manage a high-quality service that adheres to the principles of IPS methodology.
• Monitor and manage performance of the IPS Employment Specialists – guide them individually on best practice and achieving individual and team job outcome targets.
• Coordinate the work of Employment Specialists in a region in relation to building relationships with employers to effectively access the hidden labour market, external agencies and delivery of job seeking groups.
• Lead the team to ensure Employment Specialists spend enough time in face-to-face meetings with employers to find the right job match.
• Lead the team to focus on rapid job search with the service users, whilst utilising local support networks to help them overcome barriers to employment.
• Guide, mentor and coach the team to deliver on employment engagements/job development strategies.
• Produce regular monitoring reports for internal and external stakeholders.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details of the roles, duties and responsibilities can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification