IPS Employment Specialist

As an IPS Employment Specialist, you'll support people with mental health needs to secure and sustain paid employment that matches their aspirations, strengths and preferences. Using the nationally recognised Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, you'll work one-to-one with clients, guiding them through every stage of their employment journey, from understanding their ambitions and developing an action plan, through to job searching, securing a role and succeeding in the workplace.

No two days are the same. You'll build strong relationships with local employers, opening doors to opportunities that make a real difference to people's lives. Working closely with Community Mental Health Teams, Early Intervention in Psychosis services and Talking Therapies teams, you'll play a vital role in supporting recovery, wellbeing and social inclusion through employment.

This is a highly rewarding role for someone who is a confident communicator, enjoys working independently and thrives on building relationships. You'll manage your own caseload, champion your clients' ambitions and provide personalised support that helps people overcome barriers and achieve lasting outcomes.

This is a community-based, peripatetic position, with most of your time spent meeting clients, employers and clinical teams in the community or at clinical hubs. There is little to no home working within this role.

You'll support individuals through every stage of their employment journey, including:

+ Building relationships and engaging new referrals
+ Exploring skills, strengths and career aspirations through vocational profiling
+ Developing personalised employment action plans
+ Identifying and securing suitable job opportunities
+ Working directly with employers to create successful job matches
+ Providing in-work support to both clients and employers
+ Supporting individuals towards independence as ongoing support is gradually reduced

If you're motivated by changing lives, believe in the power of work to support recovery and wellbeing, and enjoy making a tangible difference every day, we'd love to hear from you.

"Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation."

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all., As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following benefits

+ 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
+ 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
+ An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
+ Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
+ Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
+ Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women's Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
+ Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
+ Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

+ We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
+ We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.
+ Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.