STAR Worker
| Posting date: | 24 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £26,530.00 to £29,114.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26530.00 - £29114.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2024 |
| Location: | Bishops Stortford, CM233LA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9367-24-1402 |
Summary
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. To assist the key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual service user lead support / recovery plans focusing on providing settled accommodation solutions. Responsible for providing support to the Care Manager 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 the 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. 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 rights. To be responsible for reviewing information available to staff and service users for its quality and relevance. To 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 the service users care. To report regularly to the Care Manager and appropriate key workers. To maintain accurate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service users case notes / electronic patient records as necessary. To ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector / agency boundaries with key contact points / named individuals. To lead cross-service peer supervision groups of STR Workers. To participate in and be responsible for appropriate elements of staff development as part of STR Team meetings as and when required. To liaise and work in close co-operation with the Team Leader, other mental health professionals, and voluntary and private sector agencies as required, to help ensure that best value services are delivered to the users of STR services. To undertake direct service user work where this is deemed appropriate, and to proactively engage service users in working to achieve their own desired outcomes, in housing related matters, in line with recovery principles, and recorded in their care plans. To respond to urgent situations emergencies or crises using local protocols. To lead on the development of structured and semi-structured group work with service users within the community settings, and to contribute to the research of local need and the development of such groups to meet it. To use information systems including information technology and be willing to undertake appropriate training. To attend and actively participate in training sessions, team / care plan review meetings and supervision as appropriate. To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.