Job summary
- Main area
- Employment Advisor - Wiltshire Talking Therapies, Devizes or Salisbury
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-WTS153-0825
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Green Lane Hospital
- Town
- Devizes
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Band 4 Employment Advisor - Wiltshire Talking Therapies
Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Employment Support team as an Employment Advisor. The successful candidates will work alongside the Senior Employment Advisor as part of the Wiltshire Talking Therapies Service.
You will provide specialist employment interventions for people accessing the talking therapies service who have mild to moderate mental health needs and who require support to gain, return to or retain employment.
As an Advisor with employability related experience, you will have empathy and ideally some experience of working with people who have mental health issues and an understanding of the barriers they face in accessing and retaining employment.
We will require the successful post holder to have the ability to travel to a variety of locations in the Wiltshire area which may not be accessible by public transport.
This post is for a fixed term duration of 12 months.
Main duties of the job
You will carry out vocational assessments for your caseload of service users, providing advice, guidance and support, working with our team of psychological therapists to create a bespoke action plan in line with their individual needs and chosen route in employment, training or volunteering.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide interventions (both group based and individual) to Wiltshire Talking Therapies service users, who have work related problems. These may be delivered online or face to face.
- Assess and discuss the person’s job goals.
- Create an employment support plan, matching job tasks with the individual’s ability and agree a written action plan.
- Promote wellbeing in the workplace and where appropriate, act as advocate with employers or prospective employers to identify work solutions to overcome or minimise potential difficulties within the workplace.
- Provide support after return to work, helping the person integrate and retain the employment.
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of the local labour market, local support and new interventions including voluntary and community organisations, educational and recreational opportunities.
- Work with local agencies and employers to identify appropriate vacancies.
- Help to use other schemes aimed at retaining and finding employment.
- Provide help to find the right job and provide advice and support on applying for positions and preparing for interviews.
- Working independently on a day-to-day basis with goals to be agreed and reviewed in regular supervision sessions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of further study in vocational training / careers advice
Desirable criteria
- Relevant degree / NVQ level 3 or equivalent
- Basic counselling qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing vocational / employment support
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with the voluntary sector
- Experience of working in a caring role
- Experience of working within the Welfare to Work or Employability sector
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Statistical knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of employment law
- Understanding of common mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT / word processing skills
- Counselling / listening skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with other staff
- Good written and verbal presentation skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to negotiate with employers on behalf of the service user
Other
Desirable criteria
- Available for flexible working outside normal office hours
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Sheriff
- Job title
- Senior Employment Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01380 731335
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