Band 4 Support Time and Recovery Worker

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Hemel Hempstead is seeking a Support Worker to join a team delivering mental health services to service users and carers. The role focuses on accommodation solutions and recovery principles within the Care Programme Approach.

You will work across boundaries, support the Team Leader, and help promote independent living and community integration, with commitments to personal development and team-based care.

Qualifications

• Commitment to Continuing Personal Development.
• Three years experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting.
• Car driver unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team providing mental health services to service users and their carers.
• Focus on accommodation solutions using the Support Time and Recovery Model.
• Work across service and/or care group boundaries as necessary.
• Collaborate with the Team Leader and other staff to maximise STAR services.
• Contribute to Care Programme Approach / Care Management processes with a Recovery focus.
• Provide support to promote recovery and independence, and to support an allocated group of service users and carers.
• Contribute to management tasks within a STAR team and support the Care Coordinator in implementing recovery-focused care plans.
• Ensure service users engage with the Care Plan and access services regularly and consistently.

Education

NVQ Level 3

Mental Health Certificate Level 3

NVQ Level 2

Job description

Our team is based in Hemel Hempstead and provides services to the locality of Dacorum (Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and surrounding villages). The service operates Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.,

• To work as part of a team which provides mental health services to service users and their carers
• 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 STAR services within available resources
• 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 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 contribute towards the management of a team of STAR workers, by leading on clearly identified, appropriate day to day team management tasks.
• Responsible for providing support to the Care Coordinator, in the implementation of a recovery focused care plan for an allocated number of individual service users and carers.
• 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 community. Are you a Support Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance your knowledge and skill in mental health working?, Car driver unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010, 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, Three years experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout