Job summary
- Main area
- Additional Clinical Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9699
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Marlowes Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1LD.
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £28,860 - £31,671 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

STaR Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
Job Summary:
• To work as part of a team which provides mental health services.
• 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 STR 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.
Main duties of the job
• 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 STR workers, by leading on
clearly identified, appropriate day to day team management tasks.
• Responsible for providing support to the care co-ordinator, 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 community.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Woodward
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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