Job summary
- Main area
- STaR Worker
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9417-C
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Civic Offices, Borehamwood WD6 1TG
- Town
- Borehamwood
- Salary
- £28,860 - £31,671 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Support, Time and Recovery (STaR) Worker
Band 4
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.co
Job overview
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- work as part of a multidisciplinary team which provides mental health services to adults
- work alongside a qualified duty worker to support the team’s duty function
- support in the assessment and provision of social care
- work closely in association with the Team Leader and other senior staff
- work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles
- provide support, give time, and promote recovery to service users in the broader
- provide support to the care co-ordinator, in the implementation of a recovery focused care plan for an allocated number of individual service users.
- ensure that service users engage beneficially with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the duty function of the team. Duty works from 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday. The successful candidate will work alongside a qualified member of staff from social work / OT / nursing.
You will spend their day in contact with service users receiving treatment from the team. This could be via phone contact, by seeing people in our Borehamwood clinic, or seeing people in their own home.
Full details in attached Job Description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 qualification or mental health certificate level 3 or agreement to undertake such training as soon as resources permit
- NVQ/Mental Health Certificate Level 2
- Commitment to Continuing Personal Development
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Solid experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gillian Gunzo
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087313000
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