Employment Specialist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Are you passionate about supporting individuals to achieve their employment goals? Do you believe in the transformative power of work and its impact on health and wellbeing? If so, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for dedicated Employment Specialists to join our team and deliver the Individual Placement Support (IPS) model, helping people with mental health conditions find and sustain meaningful employment.

What We’re Looking For

• A commitment to empowering individuals to reach their full potential.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in employment support (preferred but not essential).
• Knowledge of the local job market and the ability to build relationships with employers.
• A positive, proactive, and compassionate attitude.
• A strengths-based perspective, focusing on clients’ abilities.

If you’re ready to make a lasting impact and help change lives through employment, we’d love to hear from you!

Please note, the role requires travel for meetings with colleagues, service users and local employers.

Interviews planned for 19-20 March 2025.

The Employment Specialist will join an Individual Placement and Support Team (IPS) working under the direction of the IPS Employment Services Manager to deliver IPS as part of the holistic recovery plan for mental health service users.

The post holder will work directly with employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced mental health problems, and subsequently provide ongoing support depending on employee’s and employer’s needs. The aim will be to enable people who have experienced mental health problems to gain and retain paid employment.

The Employment Specialists Will Be Responsible For

• Work closely with individuals to identify their skills, aspirations, and career goals.
• Build strong partnerships with local employers to promote the service and secure employment opportunities.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals and community organisations to provide integrated support.
• Offer coaching, advice, and guidance to help individuals navigate recruitment processes and thrive in their new roles.
• Champion the IPS model, demonstrating a person-centred, strengths-based approach to employment support.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Moore Job title: IPS Operational Delivery Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 077742 23335.

For further information please contact Laura Moore, Employment Support Delivery Manager on 077742 23335 or [e-mail].