STaR Worker

An exciting opportunity for the post of STAR Recovery Worker has become available in Rosanne House, Welwyn Garden City, Adult Community Mental Health Services,
You will have experience of working in a community based setting. You will be responsible for providing care to clients living in the Community experiencing, or recovering from, mental health difficulties, specifically focusing on Recovery principles., + You will provide daily duty support.
+ You will respond to urgent situations emergencies or crises using local protocols.
+ You will provide support, give time to an allocated group of service users and thus promote their recovery and promote their place in the broader community.
+ You will positively promote independent living of service users within the community.
+ You will ensure that service users engage beneficially with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.
+ You will ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector / agency boundaries with key contact points / named individuals.
+ You will undertake direct service user work where this is deemed appropriate, and to proactively engage service users in working to achieve their own desired outcomes, in housing related matters, in line with recovery principles, and recorded in their care plans.
+ You would also undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post., + 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 assist the key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual service user lead support / recovery plans focusing on providing settled accommodation solutions.
+ Responsible for providing support to the Care Manager 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 the community.
+ To enable the capacity of the team to develop a rapport with service users, based upon attentiveness, sensitivity, understanding, compassion and honesty.
For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS., HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
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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!, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and
professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.