IPS Team Supervisor

Overview

Join Our Team as an IPS Employment Team Supervisor! We’re excited to announce a new opportunity to join our well-established and high-performing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service in North Staffordshire, following additional funding. IPS is a proven, evidence-based approach that transforms lives by helping people with mental health challenges gain and sustain meaningful employment. Work is a key factor in recovery, improving wellbeing, confidence, and social inclusion.

By supporting individuals into competitive jobs, IPS tackles stigma and promotes independence—making it a key health outcome. Our service is delivered in line with the 8 principles of IPS that are fundamental to our core values.

• The IPS Employment Team Supervisor will lead Employment Specialists providing supervision, training, mentoring and role modelling of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, as part of the holistic recovery plan for mental health service users.
• They will provide a pivotal role in managing a high-quality service that meets high fidelity standards and delivers positive outcomes for service users.
• You will be required to manage a small caseload of people who have experienced mental health problems and who are unemployed.
• Working directly with all relevant stakeholders: the service user, primary care staff, clinicians, social prescribers, consultant psychiatrists, employers and partner agencies - you will support the service users on your caseload to gain and retain paid employment.
• As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
• We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities. The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

For further details / informal visits contact:
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Jasmin Watts

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