Employer North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Harplands Hospital
Town Stoke-on-Trent
Salary £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 23/04/2025 23:59
Support, Time Recovery Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
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 are part of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team at the 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 which 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 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Responsible for providing the link into the care coordination process for an allocated number of individual service users. This will include attending and actively participating in training sessions, team/care plan review meetings and supervision as appropriate.
· To ensure that service users engage effectively with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.
· Positively promote independent living of service users within their community.
· Developing 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 user’s 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.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity. We offer a variety of flexible working opportunities for both full and part time staff. Job Share applicants will be fully considered and applications are particularly welcomed from current and previous service users.
All correspondence at each stage of the process (including any offer packs) will be sent to you via the email address you applied from, please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Please check your junk / spam email folders for any further communication from us (NHS Jobs).
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING POINTS
* In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
•Priority will be given to NHS staff across the region who are at risk of redundancy, where the vacancy is at the same band or one below their current band and candidates meet the essential criteria for this post.
•All employees new to the Trust will be subject to a 6 month probationary period.
•All clinical staff bands 2-4 that are new to the Trust will be required to complete a Care Certificate.
Canvassing of members of the Trust or of any Committee of the Trust directly or indirectly for any appointment under the Trust shall disqualify the candidate for such appointment. The Trust does not pay travel expenses for candidates attending interviews.
ALL POSTS INVOLVING ACCESS TO PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF HEALTH SERVICES WILL BE SUBJECT TO A DISCLOSURE & BARRING SERVICE DISCLOSURE.
Please provide full contact details for all referees, especially their email addresses where possible. Failure to do may result in significant delays in your application. There may also be a requirement to provide additional referee details.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
#J-18808-Ljbffr