Job summary
- Main area
- Employment Support
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7202164
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Marina House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Employment Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
To support people with mental health problems into employment and provide supervision for a team of employment specialists.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Giving individually tailored advice and support to a diverse range of clients, using a range of communication methods including video conferencing, telephone calls, emails, texts and social media.
- Working as part of a team of other employment professionals, sharing knowledge and expertise, and contributing to team meetings and service development activities.
- Providing effective supervision for a team of employment specialists to help them develop in their roles and achieve a high level of performance.
- Typing clear and concise session notes, and entering data onto electronic databases in a timely manner, ensuring that files and systems are always up-to-date and accurate.
- Working independently to manage own time and workload, keeping track of own progress towards targets, and continually reflecting on own performance to improve and develop in the role.
- Keeping up to date with local and national labour market trends, education/training opportunities, welfare benefit changes, and employment law in relation to client group.
Working for our organisation
About South London and Maudsley:
At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust we provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. We also provide substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Our staff serve a local population of nearly two million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. We provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people each year and we treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. As well as serving the communities of south London, we provide more than 50 specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.
About Work Well:
Work Well is a department within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust that supports people to find work.
Our mission is to support people who are unemployed in achieving their own career goals. We believe everyone can work, and people should have choice about the type of work they want to do, and when to do it. Our vision for the future is a society where everyone can work, if they want to.
Our values are:
Person-centred: we don’t tell people what to do, we give them information so they can make their own career decisions.
· Empowering: we don’t do things for people, we give them tools so they can do things themselves.
· Inspiring: we don’t just help people find a job, we help them set long term career goals for the life they want to live.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Giving individually tailored advice and support to a diverse range of clients, using a range of
communication methods including video conferencing, telephone calls, emails, texts and
social media. - Working as part of a team of other employment professionals, sharing knowledge and
expertise, and contributing to team meetings and service development activities. - Providing effective supervision for a team of employment specialists to help them develop in
their roles and achieve a high level of performance. - Typing clear and concise session notes, and entering data onto electronic databases in a
timely manner, ensuring that files and systems are always up-to-date and accurate. - Working independently to manage own time and workload, keeping track of own progress
towards targets, and continually reflecting on own performance to improve and develop in
the role. - Keeping up to date with local and national labour market trends, education/training
opportunities, welfare benefit changes, and employment law in relation to client group.
Person specification
Qualifications / Education
Essential criteria
- • Educated to degree level or equivalent (A)
Desirable criteria
- • Qualification in Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) or similar (A).
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of delivering employment advice to people with mental health problems and/or disabilities who are unemployed (A/I).
- • Experience of supervising or managing others (A/I).
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of setting up new services or projects (A/I).
- • Lived experience of mental health problems or caring for someone with a mental health problem (A/I).
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Up-to-date knowledge about how to succeed in today’s job market including labour market trends and common recruitment practices (A/I/T).
- • Knowledge of primary and secondary care mental health service systems (NHS Transformation) (A/I/T).
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of the local area (London Borough of Southwark) (A/I/T).
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- • Continually expands knowledge in areas related to work and keeps up-to-date with developments (A/I/T).
- • Communicates effectively with others, selecting the best method of communication including email, telephone, video or face-to-face (A/I/T).
- • Deals with challenging conversations confidently and sensitively (A/I/T).
- • Regularly reviews performance and develops solutions for improvement (A/I/T
- • Interprets and follows relevant policies, procedures and legislation (A/I/T).
Values
Essential criteria
- The focus of every role at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is always around the service user. Every member of staff is expected to meet these five commitments (A/I/T): • To be caring, kind and polite. • To be prompt and value your time. • To take time and listen to you. • To be honest and direct with you. • To do what I say I’m going to do.
- In addition, all staff must understand and support the organisation’s commitment to eliminating discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relations, and put this into practice in everything they do (A/I/T).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shellyanne Selwyn-Graham
- Job title
- Employment Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07736 497 676
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