IPS Employment Specialist - Drug and Alcohol Team

Could you help people in recovery build brighter futures through employment? Join CPFT as an Employment Specialist and use the IPS approach to support individuals receiving drug and alcohol treatment into meaningful, sustainable paid work. We are currently seeking an Employment Specialist to join our well established Individual Placement and Support Team. The post will be based at CGL in Cambridge. 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.,

• Building the profile of employment within CGL, and raising expectations around the ability of service users under those teams to find employment.
• Preparing people who have experience drug and alcohol addiction 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 addiction.
• Providing on-going support according to needs of both employer and employee in orders to enable people who have experienced addiction 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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives. Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.