Details:
- Salary: £27,782 - 29,147 - Annum
- Location: BS5 Crofts End City of Bristol
- Date: 1 month ago
Description:
Employment Specialist
* £27,782-£29,147 pa + excellent benefits
* Bristol
Are you passionate about making a difference and supporting others to achieve their individual employment goals? Are you looking for a role that offers flexibility and immense job satisfaction?
We want you to put that passion to great use supporting people with mental health issues to find paid employment as part of their recovery and improving their lives. So why not apply for the role of IPS Employment Specialist at Richmond Fellowship today?
This is a fantastic opportunity to really make a difference in people’s lives and develop your own skills at the same time, whilst keeping your clients at the heart of everything you do. A stepping stone for future progression, this varied and fulfilling role will see you work alongside the clinical teams within the service and receive training from both Richmond Fellowship and the IPS platform.
Alongside a generous base salary, we also offer fantastic flexibility with the opportunity to arrange your own working schedule as well as training, development and progression opportunities.
Day to day you will be supporting clients with mental health support needs to find and sustain paid employment as a key element of their recovery - engaging with employers and building good working relationships with Mental Health teams along the way.
You’ll offer support, careers advice and guidance, helping people to set their own recovery and employment focused goals and provide training in personal and skills development such as CV preparation, interview techniques etc.
Additionally, you will have responsibility for maintaining efficient admin systems to ensure referrals, assessments and reviews are completed in a timely manner.
We are looking for:
* Experience of working in a customer facing environment e.g. Customer Services, Social Care, Hospitality, Sales etc.
* Experience of working in a performance target driven environment.
* Willingness to travel locally and dedicated to working in the community.
* Experience of working in mental health services.
The applicant needs to be in possession of a driver’s licence and have access to a vehicle. This is a permanent full‐time post at 37.5 hours a week.
We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.
This is a rolling recruitment process. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply.
It is a mandatory requirement of the application process for this post that candidates submit a CV and Supporting Statement, thus only candidates that provide this, and who meet the essential criteria within the person specification, will be considered for an interview.
Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. From 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship will be merging with the mental health charity Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. In October 2024, Humankind will then be renamed to reflect the new, bigger and better organisation