Job summary
Employer heading
Thrive into Work Employment Retention Worker
NHS AfC: Band 5
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
Post Title: Thrive into Work Employment Retention Worker
Department: Thrive into Work Service, within Employment Service
Location: West Midlands
Directorate: Strategy and Partnerships
Band: 5
Hours: 37.5
Contract Type: Fixed term contract
Responsible to: Thrive into Work Team Leader
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit an Employment Retention Worker in our West Midlands Thrive into Work Neurodiversity Service, which will link in to our Employment Retention Service for advice and peer support. You will join a team of specialist advisors that will support individuals who have health conditions. This post will focus on supporting individuals to retain their employment if they are off sick or at risk of losing their job.
You will be required to travel within the West Midlands in order to carry out appointments, meetings and networking.
Working for our organisation
At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we’re building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.
The Trust is rated ‘Good’ from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and will become the lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country . We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.
This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers and their families.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will manage your own caseload of clients and support them and their employers to resolve any issues, look at sustainable return to work plans, and offer advice on reasonable adjustments to the workplace that can enable our clients to remain at work.
You will receive regular supervision and support from the team and will be part of the wider Employment Service. Ideally the successful candidate will have previous experience of supporting people with mental health problems or disabilities to retain their employment. Training and support will be provided to the successful candidate as will a full induction into the role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent level of experience
Desirable criteria
- L4 Information, Advice and Guidance
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills to convey complex information to a range of providers
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain accurate and detailed client notes and write concise reports and correspondence
- Ability to motivate and support clients to resolve workplace issues
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of support poeple with mental health problems in the community
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of support that is availble to employed individual, and the rights of those with disabilities
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty Manley
- Job title
- Thrive into Work Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07551 109 823
- Additional information
Andrew Stanley
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