Job summary
- Main area
- STR Worker
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-STO-4995720-A
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blurton Health Centre
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £23,949 - £26,282 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
STR Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
An exciting, new opportunity has opened up for a Band 4 STR worker to work alongside our newly developed Preparing for Adulthood Clinical Lead.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape how services are delivered to Young Adults, whilst working closely with a small cohort of service users moving between CAMHS and AMH services. This role requires someone who has experience of working with those in the 16-25 year old age group who have mental health conditions, can engage with NHS colleagues and those working within VCSE and can forge good relationships to improve outcomes and support recovery for Young Adults in the Stoke and North Staffordshire area.
The successful candidate will be a motivated, caring and positive thinking practitioner who ideally has experience of working with people individually and in groups.
This role is a for a 12 month Fixed term contract Secondment.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this post is to work as part of a service which provides mental health support and focuses on the direct needs of service users between the ages of 16 – 25 years old who are transitioning or who have transitioning from CAMHS, working across boundaries of care, organisation, and role, coordinated through the Care Programme Approach/Care Management process.
To provide Support, give Time to an allocated group of service users with more complex needs who are around the age of transition and thus promote their Recovery and maintain them in their community environment.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for providing the link into the care coordination process for an allocated number of individual service users. This will include attending and actively participating in training sessions, team/care plan review meetings and supervision as appropriate.
To ensure that service users engage effectively with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.
Positively promote independent living of service users within their community.
Developing a rapport based upon companionship and friendship but within appropriate and transparent boundaries.
Provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing dignity and independence.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or commitment to train towards achieving it.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of the needs of and issues facing people and their carers who have mental health support needs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Deborah Boughey
- Job title
- Preparing for Adulthood Lead
- Email address
- deborah.boughey@combined.nhs.uk
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