Job overview

  As the Operational Manager of the Employment and Individual Placement Service (IPS) you are required to have excellent knowledge and understanding of the evidence-based model and fidelity scale and evidence this within your application and at interview. You will be required to demonstrate your experience of working within an Employment and Individual Placement Service (IPS) at a senior level.

You will be responsible for the management and leadership of the IPS service. You will be responsible for ensuring safe and effective management of all operations in the team, managing the core team responsibilities and trouble- shooting operational problems.

You will lead the team to ensure that service delivery adheres to the IPS model and operates to sound fidelity standards. You will ensure that all work across the team is recovery focused, socially inclusive and person centered.

Main duties of the job

·         To manage the effective delivery of all functions of the team, ensuring that robust arrangements are in place to support service users, carers and partner organisations, and that the effective management of human, financial and estate resources is in place to achieve Trust objectives.

·         To ensure appropriate reporting systems are in place to capture KPI performance data required.

·         To participate in mandatory IPS Fidelity Reviews ensuring full participation from IPS staff, Clinicians, Information Governance, DWP and Service users, and to develop a responsive action plan and review to ensure continuous service improvement.

·         To work with external partners, NHSE, ICS, IPS Grow, DWP, Local Authorities and Public Health.

·         To line manage and provide supervision to the IPS Team Leads.

·         To lead and manage the IPS Employment Service team to ensure service delivery across the relevant clinical teams covering Northamptonshire.

·         To be fully conversant with all aspects of IPS evidence based practice and maintain an understanding of all aspects of related policy and research and to communicate this to a range of stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.