Job overview

Are you passionate about caring for Children and Young People and making a positive impact in their lives?

We are seeking for dedicated Health Care Support Workers with Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) experience to join our Multi-Disciplinary Team at Forest House to deliver safe and effective inpatient services, that aim to embrace recovery by working in partnership with service users and their carers.

Forest House Adolescent Unit is a 13 bedded in-patient unit for 13-18 year olds, and is a New Care Models pilot site for NHS England. The unit also supports the Hertfordshire CAMHS 136 place of safety. 

What this means is, Tier 4 in Hertfordshire has changed, to offer an alternative to in-patient admissions in the form of an award winning Home Treatment Team.

The Home Treatment Team and the in-patient team will be working side by side, very closely, to enable young people to receive the right care, at the right time for the right individual.

Main duties of the job

 The successful candidate must display a considerable degree of initiative, possess mature judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with service users, their relatives, colleagues and visitors.

The post holder will be required to work independently using initiative, and applying a high degree of confidentiality to all of their work. They must be able to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills, manage competing demands and organise their work effectively. We are looking for motivated nurses who can bring energy and ideas to the team.

We would like to hear from you if you are interested in working for an "Outstanding Trust" and in a supportive team within a forward thinking organisation. 

It essential to be a car driver  or access to a car in this role (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 2010).

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…”