Vacancy Information SheetEmployment Specialist posts –WorkPlace Leeds (1.5 posts)

Salary: Scale 5 point 22 – 25 (£20,661 - £22,658) - pro rata for part- timeHours: 1 x Full time (37hrs) per week -funded to 31/12/18.

1 x Part time (18.5hrs) per week – funded to 31/03/19. Base: Both posts will be based at Workplace Leeds. De Lacey House, Abbey

Road, Kirkstall, Leeds, LS5 3HS & in the community on an outreach basis.

WorkPlace Leeds, Leeds Mind, working in partnership with Touchstone and Community Links is a highly successful and innovative specialist employment and job retention service for individuals with mental health difficulties, based in Leeds.

These roles involve supporting clients on a 1:1 basis, with mental health issues, to gain employment. They may also involve co-locating part-time within one of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Community Mental Health teams and at our office base in Kirkstall and working on our newly funded ESF Step project.

If you answer ‘yes’ to the following this may be the role for you:

Do you have experience of working with individuals on a 1:1 basis with complex needs?

Do you have experience in working in an employment or mental health setting? Do you have a respectful, inspiring and empowering approach? Are you open-minded and non-judgemental? Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives in supporting them to achieve

their employment goals and have pride and passion for this work? Do you have an understanding of the barriers that people with mental health

issues may face in gaining employment?

For an informal discussion about these posts prior to applying please Tel: 0113 230 2631 and speak to Team Leaders: Sandie Jones or Fiaz Amin.

Making an Application CVs will not be accepted. Please email your completed application form in word format

(as an attachment) to recruitment@leedsmind.org.uk    Applications sent in any other format or via any other route/email address will

not be accepted You will receive an automated response from this email address which is the ‘receipt of

your application’. We will contact candidates for interview by email within a week of the closing date. Please note it is not possible for us to give feedback to non- shortlisted applicants

Closing Date: Wednesday 10th January 2018Interview Date: Monday 22nd January 2018

Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check Leeds Mind is an Equal Opportunities employer Reg charity number: 1007625