Support Time and Recovery Worker

Job summary

Are you ready to be a steady support for children and young people facing mental health challenges in Hampshire? Join us as a Support Time and Recovery (STAR) worker, where you'll play a crucial role in guiding them towards better days.

Covering sites across the county, our STAR workers help our young people identify their needs and foster strong connections. You'll work closely with the young people to plan personalised support programmes, making sure each step fits their unique journey to feeling better. You'll also work with and involve their families and friends, because we know having a solid support system is important.

In your role, you'll connect the young people with other helpful organisations, agencies, and resources. You'll keep careful records of everything, so we can track their progress and make sure they're getting the support they need.

Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team, you'll directly focus on the recovery needs of the child/young person, providing the necessary support and time to aid recovery and improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes.

We have a full time vacancy at Advertiser House and Cromwell House in Andover, a part time 22.5 hours per week vacancy at Brambly's Drive in Basingstoke and a full time vacancy at Osborn Centre in Fareham.

There will be a question later in the application for you to state which location you are applying for.

Additional contacts - georgia.marks1@nhs.net & emma.strahan2@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Your role is to provide child and young person recovery focused interventions to address complex care needs for those receiving therapy to deliver a recovery focused vision and support patient flow through the service.

The postholder will undertake specific identified recovery roles, under the guidance of the trained lead clinician, with a focus of intervention on:

*Enabling and relationship building to support and promote well-being by promoting connectivity, acceptance and supporting a child and young person focused journey through the service.

*Community working, considering social and environmental factors of health care provision, enabling conditions to access resources and address safety needs by working collaboratively with families and the network. This includes working to develop daily activities promoting social inclusion and supporting organisational commitment.

*Developing autonomy and empowerment for young people and families in receipt of CAMH Services by supporting in delivering personally defined recovery care planned interventions, promoting citizenship and supporting connectivity and empowerment.

To work within a multi-disciplinary team of CAMHS professionals in providing targeted recovery focused interventions as identified and care planned by the allocated lead clinician.

To work under the guidance of an allocated clinician to provide time limited task and goal focused recovery interventions to support with the delivery of an evidenced based therapeutic treatment plan.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Advertiser House

24-32 London Street

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 2PE

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Advertiser House

24-32 London Street

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 2PE

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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