Support, Time Recovery Worker

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

1. 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.
2. To assist care coordinators or key workers to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individual care plans.
3. 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.

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 recognise 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.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Leanne Norman
Job title: Operational Team Manager
Email address: [e-mail]