IPS Team Leader

These roles sit within The Life Rooms portfolio, an innovative and forward-thinking part of Mersey Care that focuses on social-model interventions, empowerment, and opportunity. As a Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping high-quality IPS delivery, supporting Employment Specialists, and ensuring our service users receive exceptional, outcome-driven support., As a Team Leader within the IPS service, you will play a key role in ensuring high-quality delivery and the ongoing development of employment support across the organisation. Your responsibilities will include:

Leading and supporting a team of up to 10 Employment Specialists, each co-located within Community Mental Health /Early Intervention clinical teams OR out in the community.

Overseeing delivery of the IPS service specification, ensuring that all performance targets and key performance indicators (KPIs) are achieved.

Producing and presenting quarterly performance reports to Commissioners, demonstrating outcomes, progress, and service impact.

Ensuring strong service governance, including preparation of monthly Quality Improvement Group reports.

Maintaining high quality standards through coordination and readiness of IPS Fidelity Reviews, ensuring adherence to national IPS principles.

Driving continuous service development, identifying opportunities for innovation, growth, and improved outcomes for service users.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.