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Developing Effective Employer Engagement in your Team

Applications are now open for training taking place between April and June in the following regions:

South East

South West

London

Are you a team leader looking to develop your team’s skills in employer engagement?

Are you looking for ways to motivate your team to go out and meet local employers?

This training is designed for team leaders and senior employment specialists and will provide you with the tools to grow your team’s skills and confidence in how they approach employers and build relationships in order to make the perfect job match. The training will explore techniques used in mentoring and coaching to help you develop your team’s approach to employer engagement.

This 3-part training programme will cover:

1. Live-online course:

* What prevents an employment specialist from doing employer engagement and how to overcome this
* Gaining buy-in from your team
* Techniques to help your team engage with employers
* The psychology of engaging and influencing employers
* Mentoring and coaching your team to create employment specialist champions
* Why we do employer engagement

2. A half-day in the field:

* You will practice the techniques of employer engagement, mentoring and coaching, guided by an expert trainer.

3. Live-online group coaching session:

* Reflect on the training and to work through challenges, devise solutions and share successes of the training programme.

Eligibility and how to apply:

You will need to be a team leader or senior employment specialist in an NHS trust delivering an IPS service for people in secondary mental health services. This training is open to both NHS staff and third sector providers. This training is not aimed at employment specialists and is not currently available for OHID funded drug & alcohol IPS workers as they are not funded by NHS England.

This training programme has been developed by Centre for Mental Health, Social Finance and IPS Grow. As this training is funded by NHS England there are no costs to your service to attend.

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Employer Engagement

18 June 2024

We understand the challenges of employer engagement and we’re here to help you overcome them.
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