Team Lead - Connect to Work

Job Introduction

Connect to Work is a new service designed to support people who face significant barriers to employment, including disability and mental or physical health conditions. The service focuses on helping people stay in work or move into meaningful, sustainable employment.

We are recruiting a Team Lead to help build and lead this new service across Hertfordshire.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will:

• Lead a small, specialist team

• Hold a reduced caseload focused on complex clients

• Work closely with health services, delivery partners and employers

• Deliver outcomes using an evidence-based Supported Employment model

This is an opportunity to shape a service from the ground up and make a genuine difference to people’s lives.

What you will be responsible for:

Service delivery and leadership

• Lead and supervise a countywide team delivering the Supported Employment model (place, train, maintain)

• Ensure delivery aligns with IPS fidelity principles and commissioned outcomes

• Provide regular supervision, mentoring and field-based support to staff

Casework and practice

• Manage a full caseload in year one, reducing over time to focus on complex cases

• Co-work cases with team members where required

• Support clients with disabilities, health conditions or other significant barriers into sustainable work

Partnership working

• Build strong working relationships with:

  • Health services

  • Delivery partners

  • Referrers

  • Employers

• Ensure a joined-up, seamless experience for participants

Service development and improvement

• Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the service

• Work closely with performance and fidelity teams to monitor quality and outcomes

• Contribute to data collection, analysis and service development activity

What we are looking for

Essential experience

• Substantial experience supporting people with:

  • Disabilities, and/or

  • Mental or physical health conditions, and/or

  • Other significant barriers to employment

• Strong experience working with people experiencing mental ill health

• Previous experience supervising or managing staff

• Experience of service development, promotion or improvement

• Experience of working in partnership across multiple agencies

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in:

  • Health

  • Social care

  • Disability or employment support

• Management qualification, equivalent experience, or willingness to complete internal leadership training

Why Join Get Set UK?

Because you’ll be part of a mission-driven organisation that invests in your growth and celebrates your impact.

You’ll get:

• Wellbeing support including GP, counselling and Headspace
• Discounts, pension and salary sacrifice options
• Enhanced benefits with service
• A culture built on ambition, pride, ownership and support
• Real opportunities for progression

We are also a proud Disability Confident Employer. Adjustments are available at every stage.

If you’re ready to Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Own It and Be Inspiring, and you want a role where your work genuinely changes lives, we’d love to hear from you.

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If you are ready to support people into work through evidence-based mental health employment and you live our values to Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Own It and Be Inspiring, we would love to hear from you.
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We reserve the right to close applications early. Please apply early to avoid disappointment. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer and welcome all applications. Get Set UK is an Equal Opportunity Employer, offering employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, physical and mental disability, age, citizenship, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, and any other protected status. Our aim is to support and maintain the physical and mental health of all people at work.

If you do need any reasonable adjustments as part of your application and recruitment process, please let us know at the outset and we will work hard to provide the right solution for you. 

This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners/clients and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful appointment to this role will require satisfactory completion of recruitment checks.

Get Set UK does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Recruitment Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Get Set UK will consider these CVs as gifts and will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.