Job summary
- Main area
- Individual Placement Support
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NCL-7295883-TA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maudsley Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Individual Placement Support (IPS)/Employment Support Project Lead
Band 7
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
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.
Main duties of the job
• To lead on all Work Well projects including IPS expansion plan under supervision of the Trust IPS & Employment Support Lead
• To support the Trust IPS and Employment Support Lead on specific tasks and responsibilities where required.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Carrying out regular service evaluations, analysing data and presenting reports for senior managers, staff, partner organisations and service users.
• Taking lead on all IPS and employment support projects in the service, including the IPS expansion plan, under supervision and guidance of The Trust IPS and Employment Support Lead.
• Liaising with Communications and Engagement Officer on a regular basis as directed by the Trust IPS and Employment Support Lead to ensure coherent and consistent communication with the rest of the Trust and external organisations.
• Supporting with recruitment and selection process for any vacancies within the service as required, and supporting with the retention, training and career development of staff.
• Ensuring that all staff receive adequate training and support to carry out their roles effectively; identifying training needs and addressing any gaps in skill development. Carrying out personal development reviews with staff and ensuring that all staff have an effective personal development plan in place.
• Developing and maintaining strong working partnerships with IPS and employment support team managers and departments within the Trust, and with external organisations such as Jobcentre Plus, GP practices, employment services, training providers, and community organisations.
• Motivating and supporting the teams to achieve high levels of performance against targets.
• Ensuring that all service data is collected, stored and audited effectively, in line with relevant policies. Carrying out regular quality checks to ensure that all staff are adhering to data management protocols.
• Using initiative to set up effective systems to ensure the service is managed efficiently and high standards of service provision are met.
• Keeping up to date with all organisational policies (e.g. HR, health and safety, IT, finance, etc), and ensuring that all staff understand and follow relevant policies throughout their day-to-day work.
• To support the Trust IPS and Employment Support Lead with the Work Well Culture Change Project (alongside Maudsley Learning) and other upcoming projects.
• To be responsible for monitoring the performance of the Recovery College Workshops project.
• Project manage the Employ Well Project linking the Trust into external networks of employers and supporting the aim to increase job outcomes and sustainment’s for SLaM patients.
• Support the IPS and Employment Support team leaders as needed on an ad hoc basis.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of setting up new services or projects
- Project Leadership/Management experience
- Experience of deputising for a senior manager as required
- Experience of delivering employment advice to people with mental health problems and/or disabilities
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
- Funke Adesemoye
- Job title
- Trust IPS/Employment Support Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032286272
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