Are you a Support Worker with some experience who is looking to enhance your knowledge and skill in mental health working?
Are you looking for part time work to fit around your busy life?
If yes, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking to recruit a Band 4 Support Time and Recovery Worker to Dacorum Adult Community Mental Health Services.
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.
Whilst we welcome all applications from all suitable candidates, unfortunately, we will not be offering sponsorship for this role.
Job Summary:
- 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.
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:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
