FACT Support Time And Recovery Worker

A new opportunity for the post of Senior Support, Time & Recovery (STaR) Worker has become available in NW Hertfordshire in the friendly FACT 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 must have your own form of Transport to :-

To work as part of a team which provides mental health services.

To focus directly the on the needs of service users requiring accommodation solutions using the Support Time and Recovery Model.

To work across service and/or care group boundaries as necessary.

To work closely in association with the Team Leader, other senior staff and other agencies, to help maximise the quality and quantity of STR services within available resources.

To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles.

To provide support, give time and thus promote recovery., 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.

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 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.

We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission

Our family of over 4200 members of staff provide health and social care for 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. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout