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IPS Employment Specialist

  • Full time or Part time
  • £22,578 – £26,056
  • Home working with occasional travel within Fife
  • Closing 9th February 2022


  • Advertised from 24th January 2022
  • Salary depending on experience and qualifications. March 2023 – expected to continue beyond this date subject to funding.
  • Annual Leave: 37 days per year including public holidays

Role

Responsible to: IPS Employment Supervisor

Funder: Scottish Government – No-One Left Behind

Fife Individual Placement & Support Service (IPS) is a well-established mental health service offered by employability & mental health charity Fife Employment Access Trust or FEAT as we are more commonly known. If you are interested then far more information can be found on our website at fifeemploymentaccesstrust.com

What’s the Job

Fife IPS are an Employability Service who help our clients: individuals with severe and enduring mental ill health, gain employment and stay in work.

We differ from other Employability Services by following a proven modality, IPS, and adopting a truly person-centred approach. We are a specialist service that works on a one-to-one basis with our clients, with each Employment Specialist limited to working with 20 people at any one time.

This allows us to take the time to really understand our clients wants and needs, and work with them to achieve their goals. We offer a time-unlimited support to clients which helps us to build meaningful relationships and trust, as well as being able to search for the right opportunity for them and their circumstances.

We also work with clients’ support networks (family, friends, doctors) and speak to employers to help find that right fit for each individual.

An excellent Employment Specialist is patient, understanding, empathetic; in short a people person. Being organised, motivated and hardworking is also a requirement, with a desire to constantly learn and improve a must.

More information about the job can be found in the job description.

What we offer

Fife IPS foster a supportive and inclusive culture, where working as a team and helping each other to constantly improve is at our core.

As a specialist service we understand that it takes time for someone to learn the ropes and develop into the role. We offer a comprehensive induction, ongoing training as well as weekly support and supervision. We also encourage peer observations and find this a useful way of learning and developing in a supportive way.

Ongoing training is also a large part of the role where we offer a mixture of required training and personal development flexibility.

Organisationally we offer a competitive salary, pension and generous holiday allowance.

Although normally the role would be 35 hours Mon- Fri, flexible working is encouraged. Condensed hours, work patterns and part year working are considered. IPS now operates largely remotely with the expectation of home working being the status quo with occasional face to face meetings in the community where required.

The role allows a degree of autonomy and trust to achieve the best possible results for clients.

Application notes

If this sounds like you then you can apply online here

Before applying we recommend having a look at the below links explaining the IPS framework in more detail.

centreformentalhealth.org.uk/what-ips

fifeemploymentaccesstrust.com/fife-ips

We are also open to answering any questions about the role or the service in general. You can reach Grant (Employment Supervisor) by phone: 07736901058 or grant@fifeips.co.uk, or Joanne (Strategic Clinical Lead) by phone: 07736901030.

We use a ‘seen interview’ which means, if invited we will provide you a list of the questions you will be asked prior to the interview to help you prepare fully and help what can be a stressful situation.

Thank you for taking the time to consider our job advert. Please let us know if there is anything we can help with and good luck in your application should you wish to go ahead.


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