Standguide Ltd
IPS Team Manager

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Role: IPS Team Manager
Salary: £38,682
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full Time (37.5 hrs pw)
Location: Leicestershire - Must have a car to travel between sites
Standguide is an employee-owned organisation, which means our employees have a voice in the business and a shared interest in its long-term success.
Alongside a rewarding role where you can make a genuine difference, we offer:
- 33 days paid annual leave, including bank holidays, increasing to 38 days after five full years service
- An additional paid day off for your birthday
- Workplace pension scheme
- Company health plan following successful completion of probation
- Online GP access
- Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling and wellbeing support
- Death in service cover
- Will-planning support and access to a secure digital vault
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Company sick pay, subject to eligibility
- A broad range of internal training and continuing professional development opportunities
- Access to employee-owner benefits, subject to eligibility and qualifying service
About Standguide
For more than three decades, Standguide has supported individuals and employers across the UK. We provide employment, skills and support services that help people overcome barriers, develop their potential and move towards sustainable employment.
As an employee-owned organisation, we're committed to investing in our people, delivering high-quality services and creating positive outcomes for the communities we support.
What you'll do
As an IPS Team Manager, you'll:
- Effectively manage a high-quality service that adheres to the principles of IPS best practice
- Drive and monitor stakeholder engagement to ensure development of a robust referral pipeline
- Attend multidisciplinary team meetings, delivering presentations as needed to promote provision
- Monitor and manage performance of the IPS Employment Specialists guide them individually on best practice and achieving individual and team job outcome targets
- Support the design and delivery of in-house staff training and development (including facilitating peer learning and best practice)
- Coordinate the work of Employment Specialists in a region in relation to building relationships with employers to effectively access the hidden labour market, external agencies and delivery of job seeking groups
- Spend time getting to know local employers, in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individual's strengths, needs, abilities and preferences
- Arrange/facilitate education and support to employers, as agreed with the individual, which may include negotiating adjustments, return to work strategy and on-going contact with the employer to ensure job retention.
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What you'll need
We're looking for someone who has:
- Educated to a degree level or equivalent experience
- Desirable trained in IPS approach
- An understanding of the employment needs, and challenges faced by people who experience health difficulties
- Experience/understanding of working with people with health support needs, or a similar client group within health, social services, or the voluntary sector
- Natural ability to build close, trusting, and productive relationships with people
- Ability to work independently and use initiative to develop and promote a service
- A full driving licence and access to a vehicle are required. Alternative travel arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered where appropriate.


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- Overseas equivalent qualifications will be considered
- We welcome applications from people with relevant lived experience and recognise the valuable insight this can bring to the role.
Equality and accessibility
Standguide is an Equal Opportunities Employer and a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to equality of opportunity and value the diversity of our employees, applicants and customers.
We'll consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please contact recruitment@standguide.co.uk if you need the advert or application information in another format or require an adjustment at any stage.
All applicants will be assessed fairly against the published criteria for the role.
Pre-employment checks
Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, confirmation of the applicant's right to work in the UK and an Enhanced DBS check.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us. Any information disclosed will be considered fairly and individually, taking account of its relevance to the role and the circumstances involved.
For a copy of the full job description and person specification, please email recruitment@standguide.co.uk
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