Support, Time & Recovery (STaR) Worker (Accommodation & Housing)
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at HPFT to work in a dual role with the Adult Community Mental Health Team and Settle Housing Group as an Accommodation and Housing Support Time and Recovery Worker. Settle's purpose is to help people who are struggling to find a place to live and to assist them in staying in their homes, so they can live the life they choose. The post is based at Centenary House and will cover the North Herts locality.
A new approach has been developed with the ACMHT and Settle to provide our S/U's with practical support and help with managing their home and tenancy and encouraging S/U's to access specialist advice if needed.
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. 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.
Where appropriate additional training will be provided, and you will be working in a supportive and friendly team with a range of qualified professionals.
Main duties of the job
- Provide practical help, support and referrals to partner agencies for S/U's who need help with managing their home and tenancy and encouraging S/U's to access specialist advice if needed.
- Confident in working with S/U's to deliver high trust, low effort solutions to their requests. To be committed to providing support to a high standard.
- To work as part of a team which provides mental health services.
- To focus directly the on the needs of service users requiring accommodation solutions 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, other senior staff and other agencies, to help maximise the quality and quantity of STR services within available resources.
- To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles.
- To work with housing providers and liaise with local authorities to maximise housing provision for service user group.
- To work across service and/or care group boundaries as necessary.
- To provide support, give time and thus promote recovery
- To have a flexible approach to delivering a service and working remotely, where appropriate, to use your initiative and work independently.
- Ensure all relevant legislation, policies and procedures are adhered to and be able to communicate these to S/U's and colleagues.
About us
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 to read on...
Details
Date posted
01 December 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-EAN-7244-F
Job locations
Centenary House
Grammar School Walk
HITCHIN
SG5 1JN
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Centenary House
Grammar School Walk
HITCHIN
SG5 1JN
Employer's website
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