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JOB DESCRIPTION
Employment Worker
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 35 hours per week. Core hours 9am – 4.30pm Evening work on occasion
Start date: By negotiation
Salary: £25,521
Expenses: If applicable and authorised in advance
Overall objective: to work with clients of Tower Hamlets mental health services providing advice and guidance in order to move them on to work.
- Managing a caseload potentially up to 30 participants with the aim of either:
- Identifying those who are job ready (including from existing caseload) and providing support with job hunting,CV advice, assistance with job applications and job interview preparation.
- Providing advice and guidance for clients who are not job ready in order to ensure that they obtain the
right skills and experience for employment. This can consist of creating a pathway that includes
volunteering, work experience, apprenticeships, training, and education as potential options.
- To work towards project targets and as set for each individual employment worker.
- Ability to carry out a skills analysis of participants abilities in relation to their needs.
- Identifying with participants level of support required through skills analysis, and ensuring each area
is addressed in an agreed action plan, devised with participant and is to be reviewed on a regular basis.
- Where appropriate to source a suitable placement for a participant to include cold calling, health and safety, negotiations with employer, setting up of placement, monitoring, review and exit for participant.
- To sign post participants not suitable for the project or when appropriate.
- Develop strong relationships with participants’ key provider(s) that includes a regular ongoing dialogue about their progress and development.
- Maintaining a working presence within the Community Mental Health Team of up to two days per week.
- To maintain good relationships with all mental health services that REWORK currently works with.
- Accompanying participants to appointments connected with their progression to employment.
- To support participants during voluntary roles and work experience.
- To support participants once work is secured and for as long as is required.
- To advise participants on back to work benefits using existing Quick Benefits Calculator software.
- To assist participants with the use of Adult Directions, a career guidance tool.
- To promote REWORK service to existing mental health service providers and to raise awareness of
employment opportunities. The worker will be allocated a CMHT where they will be the lead contact for
the project.
- General administration of project including both hard copy and electronic.
- Give presentations to outside organisations; attend weekly and monthly meetings, and seminars as and
when required.
- Recognise the confidential and sensitive nature of the information gathered about each participant.
- To work with participants in a non-judgemental way.
- To attend regular committee meetings of Working Well Trust.
- Attending and contributing to regular team meetings and supervision.
- To liaise on a regular basis with participants support agencies including families where appropriate.
- To provide monthly reports (including statistics) to manager and within scheduled deadlines.
- Any other duties as and when required.
Person Specification
This employee specification contains the essential and desirable criteria which candidates should possess in order to satisfy the performance requirements for this post.
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Essential |
Desirable |
Qualifications |
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- Qualification in vocational guidance
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Skills & Abilities |
- Ability to cope with a complex, demanding and fluctuating caseload
- Ability to keep to deadlines
- Excellent administration and organisational skill
- Negotiation and mentoring skills
- Good writing skills
- Competent IT skills including Word, Excel and Internet
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Personal Qualities |
- Dynamic, focused, confident in approach and manner, adaptable, assertive and patient. Ability to build rapport with anyone.
- Proactive and able to take initiative
- Ability to multi task well
- Willingness to work occasional evenings when necessary
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Knowledge & Experience |
- Understanding of the UK labour market
- Experience of providing employment support
- Experience in developing an individual’s employability
- Experience of providing support to disadvantaged clients
- Fully conversant and committed to Equal Opportunities issues
- Knowledge of different routes back to work
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- Previous knowledge of mental health issues
- Back to work calculations
- Current knowledge of benefit system
- Knowledge of existing legislation relevant to employment e.g.: Disability Discrimination Act, mental capacity Act
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Relationships |
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team
- Ability to work well with a wide range of individuals such as training providers, key workers and participants.
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