Individual Placement & Support Team Leader

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting 1.0 WTE Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Team Leader to manage the IPS team in Sandwell co-located within Secondary Care Mental Health Services. The successful candidate will support the team to increase access to quality IPS interventions and support service users to achieve and sustain employment., Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting 1.0 WTE Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Team Leader to be based in our Sandwell team. The team is currently compromised of 6 Vocational Specialists who provide employment information, advice & guidance to a range of our community secondary care mental health service users across the Black Country.

This role will support the team to maintain focus on employment as a key part of individuals' recovery and care plans; providing supervision, advice and mentoring in order to achieve core employment and delivery quality outcomes. The successful candidates will support the NHSE KPI submission with clear and accurate data collation, ensure that the quality of service delivery remains in line with Fidelity audit requirements and that co-production is embedded in our ethos. This is an exciting opportunity to continue to develop innovation and deliver an exemplary service.

lack Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services


• Specialist learning disability services


• CAMHS


Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

We currently employ over 3,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.