IPS Employment Specialist

Job summary

IPS (Individual Placement and Support) is an evidence-based approach to helping people with mental health conditions find and keep a paid job.

Having a job can bring numerous benefits. We know having a job can help people with mental health conditions to recover.

At present, only around 8% of people receiving support from secondary mental health services are in paid employment, while studies suggest almost 90% of people with serious and enduring mental health conditions want to work.

Following further investment and expansion of the IPS service an exciting opportunity has arisen for a number of permanent IPS Employment Specialists in the following area:

York, Northallerton, Harrogate and Ripon, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.

The IPS worker will be working with people who have a mental illness and support them into employment and then enabling them to retain that employment. As an IPS worker you will...