Band 4 Employment Advisor - Wiltshire Talking Therapies

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our newly created Employment Support team as an Employment Advisor. The successful candidates will work alongside the Senior Employment Advisor as part of the Wiltshire Talking Therapies Service.
You will provide specialist employment interventions for people accessing the talking therapies service who have mild to moderate mental health needs and who require support to gain, return to or retain employment.
As an Advisor with employability related experience, you will have empathy and ideally some experience of working with people who have mental health issues and an understanding of the barriers they face in accessing and retaining employment.
Due to the location of the role we will require the successful post holder to be a car driver. Previous applicants need not re apply.
You will carry out vocational assessments for your caseload of service users, providing advice, guidance and support, working with our team of psychological therapists to create a bespoke action plan in line with their individual needs and chosen route in employment, training or volunteering.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
To provide interventions (both group based and individual) to clients of the Wiltshire Talking Therapies service who have work related problems. These may be delivered online or face to face.
Assess and discuss the person’s job goals.
Create an employment support plan, matching job tasks with the individual’s ability and agree a written action plan.
Promote wellbeing in the workplace and where appropriate, act as advocate with employers or prospective employers to identify work solutions to overcome or minimise potential difficulties within the workplace.
Provide support after return to work, helping the person integrate and retain the employment.
Develop an in-depth knowledge of the local labour market, local support and new interventions including voluntary and community organisations, educational and recreational opportunities.
Work with local agencies and employers to identify appropriate vacancies.
Help to use other schemes aimed at retaining and finding employment.
Provide help to find the right job and provide advice and support on applying for positions and preparing for interviews.
Working independently on a day-to-day basis with goals to be agreed and reviewed in regular supervision sessions

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