Support, Time Recovery Worker

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

STR Worker - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team - Harplands Hospital:

The successful candidate will offer support and evidence-based interventions to service users who meet the criteria to be supported by this Service. Our STR Team is part of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team at Harplands Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, which has been designed to the highest level of specification. This modern purpose-designed Unit is the central point for all those in need of a Crisis Assessment/Intervention.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this post is to work as part of a team that provides mental health services and to focus on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation, and role, coordinated through the Care Programme Approach/Care Management process.

To provide Support, give Time to an allocated group of service users with more complex needs, and thus promote their Recovery and maintain them in their community environment.

To assist the care coordinator or key worker to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individual care plans.

To achieve the objectives of this role, the post holder must have the individual service user's needs at the fore at all times and use the agreed set of values and skills to underpin their day-to-day work.

About us

As a Trust, we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high-quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognize that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities, and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi, and trans communities.

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for providing the link into the care coordination process for an allocated number of individual service users, including attending and actively participating in training sessions, team/care plan review meetings, and supervision as appropriate.
• Ensure that service users engage effectively with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services on a regular and consistent basis.
• Positively promote independent living of service users within their community.
• Develop a rapport based upon companionship and friendship but within appropriate and transparent boundaries.
• Provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing dignity and independence.
• Provide support with daily living; living ordinary lives.
• Help service users gain access to resources to include benefits and welfare rights.
• Provide information on health promotion.
• Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service users' progress, level of functioning, and mental state, and alert the appropriate staff involved in their care.
• Report regularly to care coordinators as appropriate key worker(s).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust