Primary Care Worker

The role of the Primary Care Mental Health Support Worker will be to work across the interface between Primary Care and Secondary Care Mental Health Services and alongside the Primary Care Network. Central to a recovery approach is that people should be able to build a meaningful life for themselves and should be supported to take control of and manage their own condition. The Primary Care Mental Health Support Worker plays a central role in supporting and enabling service users to achieve the personal goals they define as important in a recovery care plan. In this role you will work to:

• Build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users and their
• Understand what is important to the service user in their
• Help and support the service user to develop and set
• Help them to feel hopeful about the things that are important to provide support and advice with being involved in their community - for example housing, employment, education, welfare benefits, social life and peer networks, In this role you will work to build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users and their Carers. You will also assist in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of recovery care plans, attending and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings in the planning, implementation and review of service user care plans.
• You will also assist in the provision of low intensity psychological interventions to support service users in achieving personal goals to resolve concerns with anxiety and low mood.
• You will provide an effective link between General Practitioners, housing, carers centre, and other statutory and non-statutory agencies and secondary care, to act in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields and to develop joint working relationships.
• You will support the recovery journey of those who are being discharged to primary care from secondary care during the transitional phase.
• You will also identify and support GPs in the management and care of those patients who are frequent users of services.
  
  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 theCare 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 4000 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