STaR Worker

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 09 December 2024

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for the post of STAR Recovery Worker has become available in Rosanne House, Welwyn Garden City, 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.

Main duties of the job

You will provide daily duty support.
You will respond to urgent situations emergencies or crises using local protocols.
You will provide support, givetimeto an allocated group of service users and thus promote theirrecoveryand promote their place in the broader community.
You will positively promote independent living of service users within the community.
You will ensure that service users engage beneficially with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.
You will ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector / agency boundaries with key contact points / named individuals.
You will undertake direct service user work where this is deemed appropriate, and to proactively engage service users in working to achieve their own desired outcomes, in housing related matters, in line with recovery principles, and recorded in their care plans.
You would also undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.

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!

Date posted

26 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

367-ACMS-8857-A

Job locations

Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG

Parkway

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6HG

Job description

Job 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 key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual service user lead support / recovery plans focusing on providing settled accommodation solutions.
Responsible for providing support to the Care Manager in the implementation of a recovery focussed care plan for an allocated number of individual service users.
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 independent living of service users within the community.
To enable the capacity of the team to develop a rapport with service users, based upon attentiveness, sensitivity, understanding, compassion and honesty.

For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

Job description

Job 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 key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual service user lead support / recovery plans focusing on providing settled accommodation solutions.
Responsible for providing support to the Care Manager in the implementation of a recovery focussed care plan for an allocated number of individual service users.
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 independent living of service users within the community.
To enable the capacity of the team to develop a rapport with service users, based upon attentiveness, sensitivity, understanding, compassion and honesty.

For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

Relevant experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties

Skills

Essential

Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
Ability to use structured therapeutic skills, such as solution focussed therapy, or a commitment to acquiring such skills
Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities
An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour
An understanding of the mental health system

Desirable

Basic food hygiene

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

Relevant experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties

Skills

Essential

Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
Ability to use structured therapeutic skills, such as solution focussed therapy, or a commitment to acquiring such skills
Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities
An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour
An understanding of the mental health system

Desirable

Basic food hygiene

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.