Employment Specialist
CurrentAt East London Foundation Trust we are committed to a recovery approach to mental health care and actively seek to support those service users who want to move into employment. We run the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service which consists of Employment Specialists who are based with Community Mental Health Teams and help service users to find and remain in employment. We offer help in preparing for work and engage with both the employer and employee to provide ongoing support.The IPS service involves: •Rapid job search •Integration of supported employment and mental health treatment •Attention to an individual's preferences •Competitive employment as the goal (with or without support) •Time unlimited supportManaging a caseload of people who wish to return to paid work, enabling them to find or retain employment by liaising with work and training providers, accessing benefits advice and by personally providing ongoing support to service users in job search and after gaining employment, in accordance with evidence based supported employment practice such as the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment. As well as working collaboratively with outside agencies to provide work focussed pathways for service users to achieve vocational goals such as education and voluntary wor