Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
IPS Employment Specialist - Drug and Alcohol Team
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Employment Specialist
Could you help people in recovery build brighter futures through employment? Join CPFT as an Employment Specialist and use the IPS approach to support individuals receiving drug and alcohol treatment into meaningful, sustainable paid work.
We are currently seeking an Employment Specialist to join our well-established Individual Placement and Support Team. The post will be based at CGL in Cambridge.
This is an incredibly rewarding role – you’ll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction, and support their recovery journey. This is also a challenging role, so you’ll need to be resilient, empathetic, and dedicated to supporting service users find a role that’s right for them.
- Build a good rapport with your clients, gaining a real understanding of their key skills, their aspirations, and their career goals, and finding them opportunities to match.
- Spend time building productive relationships with employers to identify and negotiate job opportunities in the hidden labor market.
- Build the profile of employment within CGL, and raise expectations around the ability of service users under those teams to find employment.
- Prepare people who have experience drug and alcohol addiction to find paid work and support them with the practicalities of job searching and applications.
- Build effective working relationships with external employers to secure employment opportunities for people who have experienced addiction.
- Provide ongoing support according to the needs of both employer and employee in order to enable people who have experienced addiction to retain employment.
- Help those currently employed but struggling to get appropriate support at work.
- Ensure the service follows evidenced-based Individual Placement and Support (IPS) practice.
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Please note, this is not an administrative role, it is a client-facing role which includes working to achieve set KPIs and targets.
About CPFT
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care, and community settings, including children’s, adult, and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
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To achieve our goals, we recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note, we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
How to Apply
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ellie Freeman
- Job title: Individual Placement and Support Service Lead
- Email address: ellie.freeman@cpft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07813 992147
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