Job Details
Employment Specialist
Mencap
Overview
At Mencap, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to work, grow and thrive. Our Employ Me team helps people with a learning disability, learning difficulty and autism build the confidence, skills and real work experience they need to move into meaningful, sustained employment.
£28,706
per year.
Permanent
(37.5 hours per week.)
Across the Staffordshire, Moorlands and Newcastle-under-Lyme areas.
Key information
Every day, our teams see the life changing impact that good employment support can have with stories celebrated across our 'Good News' blog. From individuals gaining their very first job, to people discovering passions they never knew they had, our employment programmes open doors, shift expectations and help people achieve independence and pride.
About the role
'Connect to Work' is part of the Government’s 'Get Britain Working' strategy. It aims to:
- Reduce economic inactivity for people facing complex barriers.
- Increase workforce participation.
- Support better workforce retention through structured in work support.
- Strengthen the connection between employment, health and social care.
- Deliver measurable outcomes including job starts, sustained employment and employer engagement.
You will provide personalised, intensive employment support for up to twelve months for participants who are out of work, and up to four months for those in work but at risk of leaving their job.
You will deliver the five stages of the Supported Employment model, following the Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF): Engagement, Vocational Profiling, Employer Engagement, Job Matching and On and Off the Job Support.
We are a disability confident leader and are able to provide reasonable adjustments and workplace passports. We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns.
Requirements
- Motivated and able to work independently.
- A great communicator, able to build trust with participants and employers.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable supporting a caseload of up to twenty individuals.
- Passionate about inclusion, employment rights and supporting people to achieve their goals.
- Previous experience in delivering supported employment programmes, alongside robust skills in recording progress and evidencing achievement.
For the full person specification, please click the 'apply now' button.
Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.