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Job overview

• To work as part of the Placement Team which provides Health and Social Care placement services to the Trust.
• To focus directly on the needs of Service Users using the Support, Time and Recovery Model to help them move through the health and social care pathway.
• To work across service and/or care groups as necessary.
• To work closely in association with the Service Manager, Placement Advisors, other senior staff, wider team and external agencies.
• To work and focus on Recovery Principles.
• To undertake reviews of service users in funded placements to feedback to the team in order to ensure placements are effective and providing safe and quality care.
• To work with our Care Providers to maximise service user participation in their local community.
• To undertake direct Service User work where appropriate, in order to proactively engage Service Users in working to achieve their desired outcomes; in line with recovery principles and agreed care plans.
• To consider onward accommodation pathways out of placement in an enabling fashion.

Main duties of the job

• To provide support and give time to an allocated group of Service Users and thus promote their recovery and promote their place in the broader community.
• To assist Placement Advisors or Care Co-ordinator's to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual Service Users recovery plans within their Placements.
• To ensure that Service Users engage beneficially with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.
• To positively promote the pathway towards independent living of service users within community.
• To offer practical support during the transitioning between placements and accommodation; including service user travel where appropriate.
• To build relationships with the Local District Councils to form working relationships

Working Relationships and Communication Requirements of the Job Working relationships

• The post holder will be expected to liaise with external stakeholders and other non-statutory agencies.

Communication requirements

• IT literate and able to present information to a range of audiences through a range of media

Clinical Responsibility

• To act as primary worker to cases allocated by the Team Manager to ensure service users’ progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users’ care

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…