AddressREQ00341
SENIOR EMPLOYMENT ADVISOR
Service: NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: £28,369 - £31,317 pro rata per annum
Location: Eastleigh (West Hub) (combined with hybrid working)
Closing Date: Sun 25 Feb 2024
Interview Date: W/C Mon 04 Mar 24
Do you want to use your skills and expertise to really make a difference and help support people with mental health problems? If so, this could be a great role for you.
About the role:
The role will involve working with the NHS TT Hampshire Employment Service Manager to ensure the successful and effective day-to-day management of the Employment Advice Service so that it provides a responsive, high quality service to patients with common mental health problems.
You will ensure that sufficient levels of referrals are received into the service and effective Employment Advice delivered. The post holder will work with a small caseload of clients but in addition will manage and support a team of Employment Advisors, leading on employment through training, coaching, raising awareness and championing on employment issues with the service staff team.
You will work directly with Job Centre Plus, employers and employment agencies to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities.
About you:
This would suit someone with experience of managing a team and providing high quality vocational/employment support and/or experience of working within an employee relations environment. If you have a sound understanding of the employment needs, barriers and difficulties faced by people with Mental Health conditions together with excellent IT skills, communication skills, both written and verbal this could be the role for you. The post holder will be required to complete the Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement qualification (CAVA).
About us:
Successful candidates will be employed by Solent Mind. We are proud to support our team in building their clinical skills and developing their own areas of interest and expertise. We offer regular additional training, monthly ‘Special Interest Groups’ and regularly offer opportunities to be involved in exciting, new projects. In addition, we offer the opportunity to develop clinical skills through Continuing Professional Development training, offering opportunities to work with Long Term Health Conditions, Behavioural Experiments, OCD and Health Anxiety.
The NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire service is run in partnership by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Solent Mind.
Solent Mind is a mental health charity providing a range of high quality services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and to promote choice and rights to everyone who needs our support. Our services operate in various locations throughout the Hampshire area. We are part of the Mind Federation. Solent Mind has a Gold award for Workplace Wellbeing Index 2022/2023 and has signed up to Mindful Employer.
We welcome applications from all of the communities in which we work. We also positively encourage applications from people with mental health problems to apply for a role within Solent Mind. Appointments are made on merit.
We reserve the right to end any vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £10.96 per hour
Expected hours: 30 per week
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: REQ00341
