Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative and Clerical - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7135168-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harry Blackman House, Peasley Cross Hospital
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/06/2025
Employer heading
IPS Team Leader
Band 6
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Team Leader for the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Services in Knowsley and St Helens. The IPS service supports Mersey Care service users with severe and enduring mental health conditions who are under Community Mental Health and/or Early Intervention Teams and are looking for paid employment as part of their recovery journey. The IPS Teams are situated under the portfolio of The Life Rooms.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The Team Leader will be responsible for:
Managing and providing support for a maximum of 7 Employment Specialists, each of whom will be co-located in a clinical team.
Overseeing delivery of the service specification, ensuring that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met and reported on (through quarterly performance reports to Commissioners)
Assuring that the service is well governed (through monthly Quality Improvement Group reports)
Assuring that the service meets quality standards (through IPS Fidelity Reviews)
Assuring that the service is continuously developed and that new opportunities are identified
Working for our organisation
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
1. To undertake training as required to fulfil the duties of the post and advise on the training
needs of employment advisors. To assist in the delivery of staff training both in house and
to other organisations and agencies
2. To line manage and provide professional support and guidance to Employment Advisors. To
provide support and advice to Employment Advisors, as required, through regular formal
and informal supervision.
3. To undertake initial appointments with prospective Job Seekers
4. To act independently using own judgement, knowledge and initiative to develop an
understanding of the needs and potential career aspirations of Job Seekers.
5. To sensitively gather information, to develop a shared vocational profile and an agreed Job
Notion or Curriculum Vitae, for each individual Job Seeker. On occasion complex, sensitive
and contentious information will need to be provided and/or received. To deal with
sometimes emotional and distressing behaviour and difficult situations and circumstances.
6. To research the labour market and identify suitable local employers by making direct contact
and promoting the service.
7. To actively pursue employment and/or training opportunities with and on behalf of Job
Seekers developing working relationships with local employers and negotiating contracts
and reasonable adjustments for Jobseekers.
8. To undertake job analyses and workplace assessments, in order to identify the factors this
will contribute to the successful acquisition of specific job skills, and the potential
development of positive and meaningful connections for Job Seekers, with colleagues and
co-workers.
Head of Employment
Band 8a
IPS Team Leader
Band 6
Operational Delivery
Manager
Band 7
9. To provide specialised advice concerning employment to Jobseekers with a range of
different clinical needs.
10. To provide specialised advice to employers concerning recruitment and retention. To
develop workplace introduction strategies which are appropriate to individual Job Seekers,
and individual workplaces.
11. Taking into account the needs of both Job Seeker and employer, to develop and deliver
highly individualised training and support packages which will result in the successful
acquisition of work and job specific skills.
12. To appropriately monitor the progress of individuals through the supported employment
process.
13. To appropriately monitor the career development of individuals in employment
14. To work with other members of the CMHT and clinical teams enlisting appropriate specialist
support as and when necessary.
15. As appropriate, to communicate and liaise with carers, families, employers and other
professionals.
16. To actively promote the integration and inclusion of Job Seekers, into the workforce of local
employers.
17. To contribute to the management of relationships with partner agencies and the continuing
development of further appropriate partnerships with statutory and voluntary sector
agencies.
18. To assist the Vocational Services Manager in seeking out and securing funding which is
consistent with, and is likely to further, the aims of Mersey Care NHS Trust.
19. To prepare and submit to deadlines minimum data set reports and relevant beneficiary
returns as required, to the Vocational Services Manager.
20. To attend the Vocational Services Steering group and take an active part in relevant work streams
Person specification
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
- A demonstrable commitment and clear motivation to work closely with people who find themselves severely marginalised and excluded from mainstream community.
- Capacity to embrace and assist in managing organisational change
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Two years experience working in a supported employment service with first line management or supervisory responsibility.
- Two years experience of job development with employers and supporting marginalised individuals into open employment.
- Three years experience working in community services for people who are severely disadvantaged by
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working outside fixed structures
- Experience in a voluntary, professional or other capacity of acting as an advocate.
- Experience of taking part in and/or devising service audit quality measures
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Education degree level or equivalent experience
- A variety of experiences in and a good understanding of industrial, commercial, manufacturing or other workplaces and processes.
- A sound understanding of how mental illness can impact upon the everyday lives of individuals and people around them and approaches or interventions which help
Desirable criteria
- A broad knowledge of teaching Principles
- Knowledge of designing and delivering training to individuals and groups.
- Training in Systematic Instruction
- Counselling
- Person Centred Planning
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills with a broad spectrum of audiences.
- Selling ability can capture and sustain the interest of an audience including service promotion.
- Reaching shared agreement, effective group/meeting skills.
- Excellent negotiating skills with employers, job seekers, carers, colleagues and partner agencies.
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
- Laura Moore
- Job title
- Operational Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07774223335
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