Job Description
Working Well Trust is a mental health and employment charity in London. All of our projects share the aim of improving the lives of people with mental health support needs, learning disabilities and/or complex issues through training and employment.
We would like to recruit a new Team Lead for our Enfield IPS (SMI) Service who is passionate about delivering the best quality service to our clients.
The service has been awarded the IPS Grow quality mark and adheres closely to the principles of the IPS model in supporting people into employment.
The Enfield IPS team works alongside two IPS PC teams and a WorkWell team so there will be opportunities to share ideas and develop joint working within the borough to support a wide range of clients.
Working Well Trust also operates other SMI IPS services so you will also work with other team leads to develop high fidelity working practices across the services.
Staff benefits include an employer contribution to a personal or workplace pension equivalent to 6% of gross salary. 30 days annual leave plus paid public holidays (FTE).
Working Well Trust is an equal opportunities and Confident about Disabilities.
To find out more please take a moment to read the full job description below.
Responsibilities
You will be leading a team of 5 employment specialists (4.5 FTE) and a peer employment support worker. You will be responsible for providing supervision, training including field mentoring, caseload management support as well working with clinical team leads, contract commissioners and health leads. You will be also responsible for monitoring team performance, data analysis and monthly reporting. You will work with the Operations Manager to improve team performance in terms of outcomes and quality. The Operations Manager will be responsible for quarterly reporting but will need your support with this task. We understand that this is a busy role, but you will be supported by the Operations Manager and other Head Office roles to help you and your team succeed.
Experience
Experience of team management is not essential, but you will need to be an experienced Employment Specialist or Senior Employment Specialist, with a performance (quality and outcomes) track record to enable you to demonstrate IPS principles and ways of working to your team. We would also ideally like you to have experience of driving change or improving performance, either at team level or as an individual team member. Experience of a fidelity review at any level would be an advantage.
How To Apply
To apply please visit our page at Charity Jobs here and submit your CV after answering our screening questions.
Candidates need to clearly outline how they meet the person specification points in their personal statement.
Please note, we will be actively interviewing during this time and may close the vacancy early