STaR Worker - Early Intervention in Psychosis Service - PATH Service
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We are looking for a Band 4 STaR Worker to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. This will give the applicant a great opportunity to build on community mental health experience. You will provide specialist support to service users based in the Dacorum & St Albans area. 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 in-house training related to first episode psychosis 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.
Job description
To provide support, give time to an allocated group of service users and thus promote their recovery and promote their place 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, focusing primarily on social care, assertive engagement and recovery focused tasks.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Access to own transportation
About the employer
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trustare one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare 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/