Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS)
Mental Health Employment Specialist
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We have an opportunity to work within LPFT’s Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Team as a Mental Health Employment Specialist, working with service users in the Adult Community Division to help them to find and retain paid employment as part of their recovery journey.
Role Overview
The post holders will provide Individual Placement and Support to a caseload of service users mainly in defined localities within Lincolnshire but cover for other geographical areas covered by the Trust may be required if the need arises.
This post requires both enthusiasm and a commitment towards supporting people with mental health conditions to retain and access employment.
LPFT holds a “Good Fidelity” status with IPS Grow; you must be willing to undertake training in the model of IPS, the evidence-based intervention used by the service.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide IPS services to a caseload of service users
- Assist the other Mental Health Employment Specialists with complex case management
- Work closely with the Service Lead to further develop / expand the service
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Required Skills and Qualities
- An understanding of the benefits of employment as part of the recovery process
- A positive attitude to enabling service users to overcome barriers within employment
- Ability to work autonomously, working closely with teams across the Trust’s Adult Community Division in Lincolnshire
About Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
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We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Contact Information
IF YOU REQUIRE FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE POST PLEASE CONTACT
Sara Brewin - Service Manager - sara.brewin@nhs.net
or
Jasmine Fawcett - IPS Manager - jasminefawcett@nhs.net
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Jasmine Fawcett
Job title: IPS Manager
Email address: jasminefawcett@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07918461434
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