STaR Worker - Early Intervention in Psychosis Service - PATH Service

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.Main duties of the job To work as part of a team which provides mental health services to those experiencing their first episode of psychosis. To focus directly the on the needs of service users requiring accommodation solutions using the Support Time and Recovery 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 STAR services within available resources. To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery 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 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

• 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, 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 of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties, Access to own transportation
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care 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, HPFT supports people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. We employ around 4,500 people who deliver these services within the community and in inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services. We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007.