Senior Employment Specialist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE5 8RS |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7202164/334-CLI-7202164 |
Summary
To support people with mental health problems into employment and provide supervision for a team of employment specialists.
Key Responsibilities:
• Giving individually tailored advice and support to a diverse range of clients, using a range of communication methods including video conferencing, telephone calls, emails, texts and social media.
• Working as part of a team of other employment professionals, sharing knowledge and expertise, and contributing to team meetings and service development activities.
• Providing effective supervision for a team of employment specialists to help them develop in their roles and achieve a high level of performance.
• Typing clear and concise session notes, and entering data onto electronic databases in a timely manner, ensuring that files and systems are always up-to-date and accurate.
• Working independently to manage own time and workload, keeping track of own progress towards targets, and continually reflecting on own performance to improve and develop in the role.
• Keeping up to date with local and national labour market trends, education/training opportunities, welfare benefit changes, and employment law in relation to client group.
About South London and Maudsley:
At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust we provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. We also provide substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Our staff serve a local population of nearly two million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. We provide inpatient care for over 5,000 people each year and we treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. As well as serving the communities of south London, we provide more than 50 specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond.
About Work Well:
Work Well is a department within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust that supports people to find work.
Ourmissionis to support people who are unemployed in achieving their own career goals. We believe everyone can work, and people should have choice about the type of work they want to do, and when to do it. Ourvisionfor the future is a society where everyone can work, if they want to.
Ourvaluesare:
Person-centred:we don’t tell people what to do, we give them information so they can make their own career decisions.
· Empowering:we don’t do things for people, we give them tools so they can do things themselves.
· Inspiring:we don’t just help people find a job, we help them set long term career goals for the life they want to live.
• Giving individually tailored advice and support to a diverse range of clients, using a range of
communication methods including video conferencing, telephone calls, emails, texts and
social media.
• Working as part of a team of other employment professionals, sharing knowledge and
expertise, and contributing to team meetings and service development activities.
• Providing effective supervision for a team of employment specialists to help them develop in
their roles and achieve a high level of performance.
• Typing clear and concise session notes, and entering data onto electronic databases in a
timely manner, ensuring that files and systems are always up-to-date and accurate.
• Working independently to manage own time and workload, keeping track of own progress
towards targets, and continually reflecting on own performance to improve and develop in
the role.
• Keeping up to date with local and national labour market trends, education/training
opportunities, welfare benefit changes, and employment law in relation to client group.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025