Employment Retention Specialist, West Essex - Harlow (Maternity Cover) inHarlow inHarlow PUBLISHED 18 OCT 2024

You will work with clients to assist them in sustaining paid employment. These will be individuals who are currently employed and have a mental health disability, but still require some employment support.

You will work closely with relevant employment support services in order that those clients who choose to leave their jobs can be supported to find more suitable employment.

This involves working alongside Secondary Care networks and other stakeholders and referring services in maintaining positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.

Why Join us?

Together we are looking to create growth and opportunity for individuals with mental health conditions and build a better and all-inclusive working world. We work collaboratively to make a real impact in transforming someone's life. We love what we do and feel we offer an incredibly rewarding career with an excellent training and development plan, a generous amount of annual leave and pension scheme.

Benefits:

• 33 days annual leave (incl bank holidays)
• Birthday Leave
• Flexible Working
• Company Pension and Sick Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance
• Hybrid working
• Reward Gateway (Employee discounts and benefits)
• Blue Light Card

• To work in partnership with individuals suffering from poor mental health and their employers, to maintain employment.
• Assess individuals to identify when their job is at risk and develop suitable strategies to manage their return to work or alternative outcomes.
• To adopt a strengths-based approach, prioritising wellness, recovery and wellbeing where individuals are empowered and supported to identify their own goals, with the overarching objective being employment retention.
• Working with individuals, and their employers, to understand the perceived barriers and challenges, limitations and risks, that are threatening the retention of employment.
• To identify and meet the needs of individuals and their employers in a prompt and appropriate way to prevent escalation and maximise the chances of retention.
• Actively work with the client and their employer with a focus on matching the clients capacity with the employers business needs.
• To monitor and provide ongoing support to clients once back to work.
• Supporting clients with referral on to employment support services where the decision is to leave their current employment.
• To build new, and enhance current, networks with Mental Health services, Primary Care services, Private and Public sector organisations, 3rd sector providers & other relevant stakeholders to secure referrals and identify client support.
• Assisting the Team Lead and Senior Management to ensure all required documentation is completed and submitted to all key stakeholders.

About us

• Accurately record and report Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data
• To support the team in promoting Employ-Ability in the community and with related publicity events and materials.
• Participate in team and external meetings to ensure service objectives are met.
• Keeping up to date with changes in employment law and in work support strategies such as Reasonable Adjustments, Access to Work, Mindful Employer, Mental Health First Aid.
• To keep up to date with information on grants and advisory services for individuals and employers; Advice on the Equality Act 2.
• To undertake necessary training and supervision in order to be able to fulfil duties as described above.

Relationship Management:

Establish positive and integrated relationships with clinical teams, employers and other service providers. This includes:

• Arrange regular meetings with clients to monitor and review progress.
• To challenge inequalities experienced by clients and address existing discrimination, whilst ensuring a process of learning for the organisation

Other:

• To adhere to administrative and data capture protocols which record the progress of individuals, and to keep accurate and complete records of casework.
• To work independently, reliably and deliver consistently to deliver effective practice.
• To co-produce service development with service users where possible.
• To collect employment recovery stories from people accessing the service.
• Ensure that all relevant policies are implemented such as information governance, safeguarding etc.
• Partake in continuous learning about mental health conditions, their impact and how they can be managed and undertake mandatory training as required.