Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative and Clerical - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7820630-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Varied sites across Merseyside
- Town
- Merseyside
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/05/2026
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 several experienced and motivated Band 6 Team Leaders to join our expanding Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services. We have a number of different locations available which cover Merseyside (travel will be expected within the role).
IPS is a nationally recognised, evidence‑based model that helps people with severe and enduring mental health conditions to secure and sustain paid employment as part of their recovery journey. Our service works in partnership with Community Mental Health Teams and Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams aswell as community partners such as DWP, providing personalised, recovery‑focused employment support to Mersey Care service users.
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.
Interviews planned for 20th and 22nd May.
Main duties of the job
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.
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
Please refer to attached job description for further details on Merseycare NHS Trust, and the role and main responsibilities.
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
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Moore
- Job title
- Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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