Job summary
- Main area
- First Episode Psychosis
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 10 months (Secondment for internal applicants & fixed term contract for external applicants)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9429
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Caseload work in North and East Herts, team base in Saffron Ground, Stevenage.
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £27,857 - £30,570 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 08:00
Employer heading
STaR Worker - Early Intervention in Psychosis Service
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.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We are looking for a Band 4 STaR Worker to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. You will provide specialist support to service users based in the North and East Herts areas. You will need experience of working with people who have mental health issues in the community. Your role as support worker will be part of the wider multi disciplinary team and support the community treatment of people as part of the First Episode of Psychosis Pathway.
The work is varied and rewarding. It can at times be challenging and unpredictable. You will need to be a good communicator, able to support people in distress or who are very unwell, be practical, sensible, and able to work alone as well as part of a skilled team. There is good opportunity for training in-house and also developmental opportunities for STaR Workers.
This is a great opportunity for you to be part of a developing and exciting service, at the forefront of implementation of the First Episode of Psychosis pathway. This pathway will make a major difference to the quality of care received by those with First Episode Psychosis and greatly improve their ability to recover. You can play a valuable part in ensuring our service users receive the right treatment at the right time from an EIP service and can go on to lead full, hopeful and productive lives.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team which provides mental health services to those experiencing their first episode of psychosis.
To focus directly the on the needs of service users requiring accommodation solutions using the Support Time and Recovery
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
To provide support, give time and thus promote recovery
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.
About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
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
To contribute towards the management of a team of STR workers, by leading on clearly identified, appropriate day to day team management
Responsible for providing support to the care co-ordinator, in the implementation of a recovery focused care plan for an allocated number of individual service
To ensure that service users engage beneficially with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent
To positively promote independent living of service users within
To enable the capacity of the team to develop a rapport with service users, based upon attentiveness, sensitivity, understanding, compassion.
To develop plans that will enable the provision of practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing dignity
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
To be responsible for reviewing information available to staff and service users for its quality
The Above is just a small example of the duties involved please read the attached documents before applying
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 or equivalent level of experience
- NVQ/Mental Health Certificate Level 2
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Basic written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities
- Knowledge of benefits/employment systems
- An understanding of the mental health system
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Access to own transportation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sarah Tooley
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07899 061831
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