ARMS Practitioner (Social Worker / Nurse / OT

The ARMS Team will offer NICE recommended interventions, the wellbeing practitioner will be an integral part of the ARMS multi-disciplinary team. The teams will work in a mini team format and will include a wellbeing practitioner and STaR worker. The wellbeing practitioner will be leading on specialist assessments using the CAARMS (Comprehensive Assessment of At Risk Mental State) tool. Alongside providing specialised and tailored interventions and will help coordinate the individual's care., The successful candidate will:

• work closely with the CBT therapists and psychologists to formulate individual's care, to provide an effective multidisciplinary team approach


• work alongside the PATH Team (Early Intervention in Psychosis Service) to ensure active, accessible care for the individuals


• maintain links with other services in HPFT and the wider community.


Delivering the ARMS pathway will give professionals the chance to develop and shape ways of working. Our vision is to work flexibly and creatively with individuals to be able to achieve their goals, and incite self-reliance and independence, whilst supporting to help build their lives. You'll be working with people who come with a variety of needs, at various stages of their mental health journey and recovery.

You'll work with a team who have specialist knowledge, experience, and skills around ARMS. You will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year. You'll be offered a structured induction programme, giving you access to ARMS and psychosis learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering the ARMS pathway to our service users., The post holder will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Team,
will be responsible for the clinical and operational day to day service
delivery, providing a high quality care service to 16-35 year old at risk
of developing psychosis.

The core functions are to participate in initial assessment of people
using a Comprehensive Assessment of At Risk Mental State Tool
(CAARMS) to determine appropriateness for ARMS service. The team
will work alongside the referring teams to identify alternative services as
appropriate to meet the person's needs.

Once an individual has been accepted onto the ARMS pathway, the
post holder will be involved in a detailed assessment period exploring
the bio-psycho-social elements of the individual. The assessment period
will also include engaging with carers and support network, alongside
initial psychoeducation surrounding the ARMS ethos.

The post holder will be involved within psychology formulation to identify
clear goals and care planning. The ARMS team are using new, dynamic
tools including QPR and DIALOG questionnaires which will inform the
joint care planning.

The role will include understanding and delivering low intensity
psychological interventions to support individuals. Employment and
vocational support, alongside signposting individual's to tailored
services. The postholder will also engage with joint working with
professionals, and work with individual's carers and support network to
manage risk and support the individual's mental health needs.
The post holder will also be expected to deliver connected lives.
Connected Lives is Hertfordshire's whole service approach to
community practice, personalised enablement, and new models of
commissioning for social care. Bringing together practitioners,
commissioners, and providers, it will support the transformation of our
service delivery. It is underpinned by the core concepts of the Care Act
2014, ensuring community opportunities, citizenship, and personalised
outcomes. Developed and launched by Hertfordshire County Council in
2017, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is now
introducing Connected Lives as its model for social care practice across
all adult services.

The model itself sets out standards, principles and approaches for staff
delivering services. It places more emphasis on prevention and
enablement and supporting people to live the life they want. It can be
applied to every area of work, from frontline social work, to systems,
leadership, and commissioning. As a member of the ARMS mini team
you will be responsible for championing the model, and advocating its
principles to members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will hold a key
role in providing social care assessments and commissioned packages of care, and will ensure that your practice ensures the service is meeting
its statutory social care functions as described in the Care Act 2014.

All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement,
Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct
and Equality and Diversity.

You are responsible for supervision, development and teaching of
junior staff and/or students as delegated by the team manager.

This newly commissioned service is looking to recruit a wellbeing practitioner (qualified social worker/ mental health nurse/ OT). We are looking for someone with a passion for preventative mental health, who is dynamic, and driven to develop mental health services. You will be working in West Hertfordshire based at 3 Bowlers Green., You must hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)., HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per year. You will also be working in a beautiful and rural part of Hertfordshire with great travel links to London and Cambridge.

A valid UK driving license plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential.

Full time / part time and flexible working requests will be considered.

If you are enthusiastic, self-motivating with a commitment to delivering high quality service user care we would like to hear from you.,
• Education to degree level or Academic qualifications equivalent (Diploma/Degree in in Mental Health Nursing /Social Work / Occupational Therapy)


• Registration with NMC/ HCPC


Desirable criteria


• Advance Training in mental health


• Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interest Assessment training, At least 2 years of post- registration experience


• Experience of working in acute or community mental health inpatient/day care services


• Experience of working in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments.


• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding process; dealing with family breakdown; serious mental ill health and risk of self- harm.


• Experience of teaching and training


• Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to relevant care group


• Experience of undertaking assessments, focussed as personalisation, choice and control, and care planning


• Understanding and experience of working within the Connected Lives Framework


• Experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaborative


• Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situation including; staff and organisational problems.


• Experience in providing carers groups


Desirable criteria


• Experience of working with CAMHS


• Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community


• Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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.

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, 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


• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (£2,011 per annum)


• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays


• One of the UK's best pension schemes


• NHS Car Lease Scheme, Your development is our focus, and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your career. You'll have access to personal coaching, to help you achieve your goals, coupled with high quality supervision and appraisal programme.


We offer the development of leadership skills via our bespoke leadership training, high quality profession specific support and opportunities to learn the most effective supervision and personal coaching approaches.

You'll be an important part of an innovative, creative, and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality.

HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per year. You will also be working in a beautiful and rural part of Hertfordshire with great travel links to London and Cambridge.

Full time / part time and flexible working requests will be considered.

If you are enthusiastic, self-motivating with a commitment to delivering high quality service user care we would like to hear from you.