Primary Care Mental Health Worker

Job overview

Please be aware that HPFT are not offering sponsorship for the HCA/ Support Worker roles and you must have the right to work in the UK in order to apply. If you are a graduate visa holder, you must have at least 12 months before expiry.

Candidates must have:

• experience of working in the NHS or Adult Social Care.
• experience of working in mental health care
• a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are transforming Adult Community Services. They are delivering a new and innovative Enhanced Primary Care Mental Health Service to people in Watford and are now looking to expand this service to cover Hemel Hempstead and St Alban's. Our EPMHS  joins with existing primary and secondary care services, working in partnership with both, to ensure a great needs led pathway is available for people in Hemel Hempstead and St Alban's.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a developing service, using new pathways that are needs led. Our new workforce will work closely with service users and carers, using continuous quality improvement tools to shape the service in the coming months.

Please note: Due to the high volume of applicants these posts attract we may need to close the advert early.

Please Note: Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work to build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users and their carers. You will also assist in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of recovery care plans, attending and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings in the planning, implementation and review of service user care plans.

You will also assist in the provision of low intensity psychological interventions to support service users in achieving personal goals to resolve concerns with anxiety and low mood.

You will provide an effective link between General Practitioners, housing, carers centre, and other statutory and non-statutory agencies and secondary care, to act in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields and to develop joint working relationships.

You will support the recovery journey of those who are being discharged to primary care from secondary care during the transitional phase.

You will also identify and support GPs in the management and care of those patients who are frequent users of services.

To provide the skills and confidence required to manage these mental health needs appropriately we will offer relevant training which may include solution focused questioning, motivational interviewing and a holistic approach to understanding people’s needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role requires our staff to be confident, flexible and dynamic in their approach to their work with a positive outlook to working within a fast paced environment. You will be a good team player. In return for this you would be offered continued training, and an opportunity to contribute to service development whilst working within a friendly and supportive team.

To assist in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of recovery care plans.

To assist in the provision of low intensity psychological interventions to support service users in achieving personal goals to resolve concerns  with anxiety and low mood.

Under supervision, and by agreement with the service user, to provide an effective link between those parties involved in the implementation of all elements of the service user’s recovery care plan.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of local community resources that can support service users in achieving their personal recovery goals.

In agreement with service users and reflecting the agreed recovery care plan, actively include family members and carers in the assessment,  planning, treatment and review process with service users, where appropriate.

To work flexibly according to identified patient need. For example, advocacy for, and on behalf of, the client to ensure full access to social amenities and benefits, supporting the client in pursuing these ends, as well as accompanying the clients to facilities if necessary.

To provide an effective link between General Practitioners, housing, carers Centre, and other statutory and non-statutory agencies and secondary care, to act in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields and to develop joint working relationships.

Supporting the recovery journey of those who are being discharged to primary care from secondary care during the transitional phase

Car driver essential,  with the exceptions of those covered by the disability act.

For a more detailed Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying