STaR Worker Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team which provides mental health services to adults
• To work alongside a registered mental health professional / duty worker to support the team’s duty function
• To provide contact to with service users , carers and other partners contacting the team requiring urgent support.
• To support in the assessment and provision of social care
• To work closely in association with the Team Leader and other senior staff
• To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles

Main duties of the job

• To provide support , give time, and promote recovery to service users in the broader

• 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 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

About us

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…