Support, Time & Recovery (STaR) Worker

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Support, Time and Recovery (STaR) Worker to join our Adult Community Mental Health Services Team in North Hertfordshire / Stevenage.

The area is well served with transport links to historic Hertfordshire and its glorious countryside as well as into London and beyond.  We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering care to Adults with mental health issues.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

We can offer you a competitive salary, staff benefits package, excellent career development and training that comes from working for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT.  We are on a “Good to Great” journey as we continue to innovate, improve, transform and deliver the very highest standards of care to the service users and communities that we serve.

Please refer to the “Main Duties Of The Job”, “Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities” sections and the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached elsewhere for full details.

Previous apps need not apply

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of a team which provides mental health services, focussing directly the on the needs of service users using the Support Time and Recovery Model.

• You will 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 STR services within available resources.
• To provide support, give time and thus promote recovery.
• All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

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.
• To develop plans that will enable the provision of practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing dignity and independence.
• To enable staff to provide support with daily ‘living of ordinary lives’.
• To ensure the right information is available to enable staff and service users to gain access to resources, including benefits and welfare rights.
• To be responsible for reviewing information available to staff and service users for its quality and relevance.
• To help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service users’ progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users’ care.
• To report regularly to the Care Manager and appropriate key workers.
• To maintain accurate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service users’ case notes / electronic patient records as necessary.

• To ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector / agency boundaries with key contact points / named individuals.
• To lead cross-service peer supervision groups of STR Workers.

• To participate in and be responsible for appropriate elements of staff development as part of STR Team meetings as and when required.
• To liaise and work in close co-operation with the Team Leader, other mental health professionals, and voluntary and private sector agencies as required, to help ensure that best value services are delivered to the users of STR services.
• To 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.
• To respond to urgent situations emergencies or crises using local protocols.
• To lead on the development of structured and semi-structured group work with service users within the community settings, and to contribute to the research of local need and the development of such groups to meet it.
• To use information systems including information technology and be willing to undertake appropriate training.
• To attend and actively participate in training sessions, team / care plan review meetings and supervision as appropriate.
• To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.