Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
IPS Employment Specialist
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The individual Placement and Support Employment Service in Bradford is expanding.
We are excited to be recruiting three additional Employment Specialists to join our award-winning service.
Are you passionate about supporting individuals with mental health needs in their recovery?
Would you be willing to advocate for your client supporting them into paid employment?
Then this could be an exciting opportunity for you.
These roles will be community-based, working with clients with severe and enduring mental health needs, using the evidenced-based model of Individual Placement and Support, supporting individuals into sustained paid employment.
You will be joining an expanding service with strong leadership, passionate individuals, working together as the IPS service and within Primary Care Networks and secondary care mental health services.
You will receive excellent and frequent supervision from your team leader, mentoring from experienced employment specialists, and a real sense of team.
You will be responsible for working with clients (managing a caseload) who have severe and enduring mental health needs, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment in line with their preferences.
Delivering the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, providing person-centered advice and guidance to clients whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.
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- Building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.
- Working with individuals and groups in a variety of settings across Bradford District Care Trust in collaboration with health and social care professionals within the Community mental health teams, Primary Care Networks, as well as outside agencies and employers.
- Working directly with employers to secure employment opportunities, and subsequently to provide ongoing support according to both service users and employer’s needs.
- Holding specific responsibility and autonomy for delivering of contract Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) within an allocated team.
Closing Date: 23rd August 2026 at Midnight
Shortlisting Date: 26th August 2026
Interview Date: 1st & 3rd September 2026
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
- We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
- We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
- We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
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- Increase mileage rates for > 3500
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
- Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jane Bridges
- Job title: IPS Service Manager
- Email address: jane.bridges@bdct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07752064308
If you would like to meet the team, hear more about IPS, and ask questions about the service, please email jane.bridges@bdct.nhs.uk for an invite to a teams meeting on Friday 14th July 26.
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