Mental Health Employment Specialist
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Stamford, PE9 1UNView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
13 September 2026
7 days leftJob description
We have an opportunity to work within LPFT's Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Team as a Mental Health Employment Specialist, working with servic...
The postholder will provide IPS services to a caseload of service users and assist the other Mental Health Employment Specialists with complex case management. As this is a developing service, the postholder will also work closely with the Service Lead to further develop / expand the service.
This post requires both enthusiasm and a commitment towards supporting people with mental health conditions to access and retain paid employment. This includes working collaboratively with a wide range of employers and relevant agencies and partners from the statutory, voluntary and business sectors, internal and external to the Trust.
An understanding of the benefits of employment as part of the recovery process and a positive attitude to enabling service users to overcome barriers within employment, are essential. The post will involve working in the community and requires the ability to work autonomously, working closely with teams across the Trust's Adult Community Division in Lincolnshire
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!
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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level
- Or equivalent experience in the field of supported employment
- Or NVQ Level 3/equivalent relevant training to diploma level and/or experience relevant to the duties of the post)
Desirable: - Occupational Therapy, Social Work , Psychology or Employment qualifications; - IPS training; - Motivational interviewing training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of initiating, liaising and collaborating with a wide range of individuals and organisations promoting and developing employment, education and training opportunities on behalf of service users
- Experience of working with a range of mental health service users (in health, social care and/or voluntary sectors) implementing individual programmes and interventions
- Experience of actively and regularly engaging with employers and employment providers to seek out employment opportunities on behalf of service users
- Knowledge of good practice in employment legislation protecting disability equality
- Ability to identify and find solutions to improve the wider service over and above those improvements related to the role
- Experience of constructing and reviewing individually tailored programmes using a person centred approach.
- Knowledge of vocational assessment & profiling of service users' vocational needs
Desirable
- Recent experience of working with service users to help them meet their employment-related goals
- Experience & knowledge of the benefits agency and all disability employment related benefits
- Knowledge of the IPS model
- Personal experience of using Mental Health services
- Experience of collecting caseload and outcome data
- Experience of managing and supervising support staff
Skills
Essential
- Enthusiasm and commitment towards supporting people with mental health conditions to find paid employment
- Working knowledge of appropriate therapeutic models to engage and retain service users in treatment and to support them achieve their vocational goals
- An understanding of the benefits of work as part of the recovery process and a positive attitude to enabling service users overcome barriers to finding employment
- Excellent marketing and promotional skills with good negotiation skills & persuasive style
- Able to analyse situations / information to identify and support service users to address their individual needs in relation to employment, education and training
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collectively as part of a team
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Thorough understanding of mental health issues
- Ability to embrace and adapt to new challenges
- Ability to support an individual's recovery
- Knowledge of local employment issues, relevant Government policy and Trust priorities
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable
- Experience of delivering training and presentations to a wide variety of colleagues and agencies internal and external to the Trust
- Knowledge of relevant welfare benefits and benefits rules
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently to other bases and Service User homes
- Flexible and able to support extended hours opening, if required
- Cover for team members working in other areas
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
2 September 2026
Last checked
4 September 2026
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