# IPS Employment Specialist - Drug and Alcohol Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ips-employment-specialist-drug-and-alcohol-team/52631739-299f-49e6-8da6-bed6ebe88cc8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ips-employment-specialist-drug-and-alcohol-team/52631739-299f-49e6-8da6-bed6ebe88cc8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cambridge - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 21 months (Ends 31st March 2028) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-30T08:01:02.493Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/Cambridgeshire_Peterborough_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Support/Clinical_Support-v7958845 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7958845?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you want to be part of a friendly and dynamic team of Employment Specialists committed to delivering excellent employment support to our service users? If you believe passionately  that anyone with mental health difficulties can work and would like to be part of that journey, then this could be the role for you. We are currently seeking an Employment Specialist to join our well established Individual Placement and Support Team. The post will be based in the Peterborough Adult Locality Team at Peterborough Town Hall. This is an incredibly rewarding role – you’ll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction and support their recovery journey. This is also a challenging role, so you’ll need to be resilient, empathetic and dedicated to supporting service users find a role that’s right for them. You’ll build a good rapport with your clients, gaining a real understanding of their key skills, their aspirations and their career goals and finding them opportunities to match. You’ll also spend time building productive relationships with employers in order to identify and negotiate job opportunities in the hidden labour market. ### Main duties of the job - Building the profile of employment within the mental health teams, and raising expectations around the ability of service users under those teams to find employment. - Preparing people who have experienced mental health problems to find paid work and supporting them to the practicalities of job searching and applications. - Building effective working relationships with external employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems. - Providing on-going support according to needs of both employer and employee in orders to enable people who have experienced mental health problems to retain employment. - Helping those currently employed but struggling to get appropriate support at work. - Ensuring the service follows evidenced-based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) practice Please note, this is not an administrative role, it is a client facing role which includes working to achieve set KPIs and targets. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. - Support service users to identify and meet their vocational goals by providing individually tailored programmes using a person-centred approach. - Complete initial assessments of service users’ vocational needs, working collaboratively with service users to complete a Vocational Profile. Support service users to complete job applications and compile CVs. - Actively and regularly engage with employers and employment providers and seek out employment opportunities for service users. - Proactively address barriers to education, training and employment through partnership working with services. - Ensure effective communication with clinical team colleagues and relevant organisations internal and external to the Trust. - Ensure that service users are supported to progress through the service in a timely manner and are discharged / signposted / referred on at appropriate stages of their treatment. - Make regular written and verbal reports concerning the progress of service users, and maintain written and electronic records as per Trust policy. - Contribute positively to the achievement of service targets and outcomes to achieve commissioners requirements and target. - Complete required records for caseload and service activity and achievement of outcomes. Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria. *DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website ## Job Details Do you want to be part of a friendly and dynamic team of Employment Specialists committed to delivering excellent employment support to our service users? If you believe passionately that anyone with mental health difficulties can work and would like to be part of that journey, then this could be the role for you. We are currently seeking an Employment Specialist to join our well established Individual Placement and Support Team. The post will be based in the Peterborough Adult Locality Team at Peterborough Town Hall. This is an incredibly rewarding role – you’ll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction and support their recovery journey. This is also a challenging role, so you’ll need to be resilient, empathetic and dedicated to supporting service users find a role that’s right for them. You’ll build a good rapport with your clients, gaining a real understanding of their key skills, their aspirations and their career goals and finding them opportunities to match. You’ll also spend time building productive relationships with employers in order to identify and negotiate job opportunities in the hidden labour market. ## Job Description Building the profile of employment within the mental health teams, and raising expectations around the ability of service users under those teams to find employment. Preparing people who have experienced mental health problems to find paid work and supporting them to the practicalities of job searching and applications. Building effective working relationships with external employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems. Providing on-going support according to needs of both employer and employee in orders to enable people who have experienced mental health problems to retain employment. Helping those currently employed but struggling to get appropriate support at work. Ensuring the service follows evidenced-based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) practice Please note, this is not an administrative role, it is a client facing role which includes working to achieve set KPIs and targets. ## Responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. Support service users to identify and meet their vocational goals by providing individually tailored programmes using a person-centred approach. Complete initial assessments of service users’ vocational needs, working collaboratively with service users to complete a Vocational Profile. Support service users to complete job applications and compile CVs. Actively and regularly engage with employers and employment providers and seek out employment opportunities for service users. Proactively address barriers to education, training and employment through partnership working with services. Ensure effective communication with clinical team colleagues and relevant organisations internal and external to the Trust. Ensure that service users are supported to progress through the service in a timely manner and are discharged / signposted / referred on at appropriate stages of their treatment. Make regular written and verbal reports concerning the progress of service users, and maintain written and electronic records as per Trust policy. Contribute positively to the achievement of service targets and outcomes to achieve commissioners requirements and target. Complete required records for caseload and service activity and achievement of outcomes. Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria. *DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience 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. - Experience of working with a range of mental health service users (in health, social care and/or voluntary sectors) implementing individual programmes and interventions. - Experience of actively and regularly engaging with employers and employment providers to seek out employment opportunities on behalf of service users - Knowledge of vocational assessment & profiling of service users’ vocational needs **Desirable** - Recent experience of working with service users to help them meet their employment-related goals - Experience & knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability employment related benefits - Personal experience of using Mental Health services ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Good time management skills to balance the co-ordination of own diary making best use of time, efficiently and effectively. ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Enthusiasm and commitment towards supporting people with mental health problems find paid employment. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative **Desirable** - Knowledge of relevant welfare benefits and benefits rules ### Education / Qualificaltions **Essential** - Educated to degree level Or equivalent experience in the field of supported employment – to degree level - Or NVQ Level 3/equivalent relevant training to diploma level and/or experience relevant to the duties of the post to degree level **Desirable** - Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Psychology or Employment qualifications - IPS training - Motivational interviewing training ## Documents - [cpft values (pdf, 114.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1743) - [cpft benefits (pdf, 74.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2967) - [cpft accommodation (pdf, 713.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2805) - [cpft mindful employers (pdf, 51.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1744) - [employment specialist jdps (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10239840) - [employee probation period guidance (pdf, 177.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3046) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.