Role Overview

Working with clients, health professionals, service providers and employers, IPS Employment Specialists focus on ensuring a person’s journey into employment, with associated improved social inclusion and wellbeing, is as easy as possible. You will manage a caseload of clients with mental health support needs, assisting them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences. Your role involves delivering the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach—training will be provided—providing person‑centred advice and guidance to clients, while building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment. You will work as part of a community mental health team and/or an early intervention psychosis team or Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) team, maintaining positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment. The position is peripatet...