STaR Worker

Job overview

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, give time to an allocated group of service users and thus promote their recovery and 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.

Detailed job description and main 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.