Job responsibilities
KEY RESULT AREAS:
The postholder will manage a caseload of 25 to 35 service users within The Barnsley Talking Therapies service. The Employment Advisor will work with the clinician and the client to produce a personalised action plan to ensure that psychological treatment and employment support are provided to support the individual to improve their mental health and meet their stated employment goals, which may be to improve their current employment or find alternative work.
The role is to work directly with all relevant stakeholders; including, service users, mental health staff in community teams, Vocational teams and local partner agencies including Jobcentre Plus, Work & Health Programme providers, employers, trade unions and employment agencies to support people to stay in employment and secure employment opportunities. A key part of the role is to actively engage with employers to enable service users to gain paid employment and to sustain this with ongoing support within employment as required.
1.1Care/service/function provision: To ensure that all service users who say they want to gain paid employment are successful in accessing/gaining and retaining paid employment.
Core duties and responsibilities
- To work with clients accessing the Barnsley Talking Therapies Team to find work, maintain work and provide advice and guidance to clients irrespective of the work status.
- To work directly with all relevant stakeholders and external agencies to ensure that the service users meet their employment goals. This includes mental health teams, employers, local DWP, Jobcentre Plus, trade unions, the Council Business, Work and Health Provider Programmes and Economy and other Council teams.
- Spend time getting to know local employers in order to negotiate job opportunities that meet each individuals strengths, needs, abilities and preferences.
- To ensure that service users support needs are identified in terms of barriers to employment, disclosure with the agreement of the individual and reasonable adjustments.
- To ensure as much as possible that the quality of work environments is explored including potential for workplace adjustments to accommodate individual strengths, skills and coping strategies.
- To support service users to training and education courses as appropriate.
- To provide information, advice and guidance to assist clients to get back to work if off sick including gaining access to Occupational Health, encouraging employers to consider a graduated return to work, and development of back to work plans
- To provide support with CVs, interviews, rapid job searching, and applications for employment as required.
- To provide the individual and employer with individualised support in work on an ongoing basis and help the person sustain employment as agreed with the individual.
- To maintain and update accurate records within the required IT systems to ensure prompt communication with the Multi-disciplinary team around progress, change or adverse events.
- To work flexibly, as required by the individual, to gain paid employment.
- To adhere to administrative, monitoring and evaluation systems requirements for the service.
- To undertake mandatory training as required by the trust.
- To provide and seek benefit advice for service users seeking paid employment
- To provide employment advisor caseload cover.
1.2 Working as part of a Team: To work closely with clinical teams and health care professionals, to identify individuals who are motivated to seek paid employment and to achieve job outcome targets alongside a multi-disciplinary approach to return to work
To work as an integrated part of the Barnsley Talking Therapy Service.
1.3 Managing Self:
To create and maintain links with local employers and council employment networks to support people into paid employment and provide in-work support to help people retain employment.
To work assertively with employers to promote employer engagement in order to meet and exceed job outcome targets for service users.
To promote the role of the Employment Advisor within the Barnsley Talking Therapies Team and to external partners. This includes educating employers around mental health issues where appropriate.
The postholder will attend regular one to one clinical supervision with the Senior Employment Advisor to develop skills and knowledge.
To be responsible for continuing professional development related to this specialist area and to apply reflection on own practice which can inform the supervision process.
Undertake timely and appropriate mandatory training, study days, in-service training programmes and keep up to date with changes in operational procedures and developments in clinical practice.
Develop knowledge and basic understanding of and comply with all service/Trust policies and procedures and relevant legislation eg, Mental Health Act 2007, Childrens Act etc
Promote a positive image of the Service/Trust.
Actively participate in the appraisal process using it as a positive means of improving self-awareness, development and work practice.
Act within own sphere of competence at all times as determined by the job description
1.4 Management Supervision and Support: To work as part of a team, taking part in monthly team meetings.
The post holder has no managerial supervision responsibility but is expected to be a good example of the role of Employment Advisors within service and externally.
To provide cover for the caseload of the other Employment Advisors as necessary during times of sickness and annual leave.
1.5 Financial Responsibility:
To use Trust resources efficiently and suggest efficiency savings to more senior staff.
To claim expenses relevant to work related activities such as travel and parking through the exisiting Trust electronic system.
1.6 Trust Values:
The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:
Honest, open, transparent
Respectful
Person first and in the centre
Improve and be outstanding
Relevant today, ready for tomorrow
Families and carers matter
1.7 Safeguarding:
Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.
Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.
1.8 Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:
All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to:
ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns;
maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;
understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Trust Data Protection Policy;
comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually;
receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;
understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;
recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity;
ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining;
comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);
demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;
abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached;
work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards.
adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds;
being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;
Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly;
for the full job description please see the attached documents.
Thank you.
