Job summary
Employer heading
Support, Time and Recovery Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
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.com/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for the post of Support, Time & Recovery (STaR) Worker has become available in East South East Hertfordshire Adult Community Mental Health Services.
You will have experience of working in a community based setting. You will be responsible for providing care to clients living in the Community experiencing, or recovering from, mental health difficulties, specifically focusing on Recovery principles.
Where appropriate additional training will be provided.
You will provide direct support and advice to Service Users (Adults of all ages) and Carers, within the recovery framework, embracing the individual right to choice and control.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary Team, working in partnership with a range of stakeholders inside and outside of the Trust.
You will be required to demonstrate their knowledge of the relevant legislation, theory and policy in relation to the care group.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team which provides mental health services.
To focus directly the on the needs of service users using the Support Time and Recovery Model.
To work across service and/or care group boundaries as necessary.
To work closely in association with the Team Leader, duty worker, other senior staff and other agencies.
To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles.
To provide support, give time and thus promote recovery.
To work with other providers to maximize service user participation in their local community
To support our duty and initial Assessment Service.
To undertake carers assessment and support of carers identified in the team.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide support, give time to an allocated group of service users and thus
promote their recovery and promote their place in the broader community.
To assist the care coordinator or key worker to assess, plan, implement and
evaluate individual service user lead support / recovery plans focusing on
social care needs.
To enable the capacity of the team to develop a rapport with service users,
based upon attentiveness, sensitivity, understanding, compassion and
honesty.
To develop plans that will enable the provision of practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing dignity and independence.
To enable staff to provide support with daily ‘living of ordinary lives’
To ensure the right information is available to enable staff and service users
to gain access to resources, including benefits and welfare rights.
FOR A MORE INDEPTH JOB AND PERSON SPECIFICATION PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT BEFORE APPLYING
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 qualification or mental health certificate level 3
- NVQ/Mental Health Certificate Level 2
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the Care Act
- Understanding of the Personal Budget process
- Understanding of the Personal Budget process
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
- Ability to use structured therapeutic skills, such as solution focussed therapy, or a commitment to acquiring such skills
- Computer skills for entering clinical notes on electronic patient record
- Basic written communication skills
- Good verbal communication skills and the ability to listen effectively.
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
- Yan Xu-Dixon
- Job title
- ACMHS Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584617291
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