IPS Team Leader

We are excited to be delivering Connect to Work in Hampshire and are seeking a Team Leader to support our Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and a team leader to lead our Supported Employment programme.

This is a key leadership role where you will guide and inspire a team of Employment Specialists to deliver high-quality, evidence-based employment support that transforms lives. As Team Leader, you will provide supervision, mentoring, and training to ensure your team consistently meets IPS fidelity standards and contractual targets. You will lead with accountability, ensuring your team consistently delivers strong outcomes. You will also lead your team through Fidelity audits both internal and external.

Working closely with health partners and local stakeholders, you will help embed IPS within clinical services and strengthen community partnerships.

This is a community-based role, requiring travel across Hampshire (excluding Portsmouth and Southampton).

"Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation."

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose‑led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Peripatetic - community-based role across Hampshire (excluding Portsmouth and Southampton). You will be expected to be in the community supporting your teams most of your working time.

• Lead and motivate a team of Employment Specialists to deliver exceptional IPS and Supported Employment services.
• Provide regular supervision and coaching to maintain quality standards and improve outcomes.
• Monitor performance against KPIs and fidelity measures, implementing improvement plans where needed.
• Build strong relationships with NHS teams, referral partners, and local employers.
• Drive continuous improvement in systems and processes to enhance service delivery.

• Degree-level education or equivalent relevant experience (Essential).
• Understanding and/or experience of the IPS model or Supported Employment delivery (Essential).
• Experience managing remote teams and applying performance management procedures (Essential).
• Proven ability to work to and exceed targets (Essential).
• Experience of partnership working internally and externally (Essential).
• Experience improving systems and processes (Essential).

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday.
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year.
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months.
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate.
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes.
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Women's Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Menopause Peer Support Group, The MANaging Network, The Young Professionals Network and Back to Work Support Group).
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan.

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation.

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

• We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
• We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.
• We are proud to hold the menopause friendly accreditation, hosting regular Menopause Peer Support Groups providing a safe space for colleagues to share experiences or ask questions.
• Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.