Senior Workforce Lead – IPS

We are recruiting two Senior Workforce Leads to play a key role in the professional development of the IPS workforce. This is an opportunity for an experienced learning and development professional with strong IPS knowledge to make a meaningful impact at a national level.

Published: 28 August 2026

Social Finance is an ambitious not-for-profit organisation working to design, fund and scale better solutions to complex social problems.

Through IPS Grow, Social Finance supports the expansion and improvement of Individual Placement and Support services (IPS). IPS is an evidence-based approach that helps people with mental health conditions, people overcoming alcohol and drug addiction or who otherwise face economic exclusion, to find and sustain paid employment.

IPS Grow is now looking for two Senior Workforce Leads to play a key role in the professional development of the IPS workforce.

Working remotely as part of the Workforce team and reporting to the Learning & Development Manager, you will lead the development and delivery of training, onboarding, accredited learning and professional development programmes for IPS Employment Specialists across England.

This is an opportunity for an experienced learning and development professional with strong IPS knowledge to make a meaningful impact at a national level.

• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of the IPS Level 3 qualification
• Develop and deliver additional accredited and non-accredited learning opportunities
• Support the development and delivery of face-to-face and e‑learning programmes
• Provide mentoring and ongoing support to new IPS Employment Specialists during their first year
• Identify training needs and develop workshops, resources and learning interventions to address them
• Monitor learner engagement, progression and outcomes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
• Support onboarding activities, ensuring new hires are well prepared to deliver high-fidelity IPS services
• Work closely with the Learning & Development Manager to evaluate and improve training effectiveness
• Apply specialist IPS knowledge to ensure learning content reflects current best practice and research
• Build strong relationships with IPS services, ICB Leads, Regional NHS Leads and other national stakeholders
• Ensure training and onboarding activity meets IPS Grow’s quality assurance standards
• Collect and analyse workforce and EDI data and contribute to reporting and evaluation
• Support IPS services with workforce development and race equity action planning