Job summary
To work as part of the Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS).
Working alone or with other MDT staff under the supervision of a registered mental health professional, the post holder will be expected:
To work as part of a team which provides mental health services.
The job will be covering the whole of Hertfordshire but your main base will be at St Paul's, Slippers Hill, Hemel Hempstead.
To focus directly on the needs of service users using the Support Time and Recovery Model.
To work across service and/or care group boundaries as necessary.
Carry a keyworker caseload and support coordination of care during the episode of EROS rehabilitation.
Communicate with the Care Co-ordinator, GP and any other involved professionals during the EROS episode.
In conjunction with members of the team, contribute to the development and implementation of the Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach service to provide a high-quality care and support to service users and carers.
To work closely in association with the Team Leader, other senior staff and other agencies, to help maximise the quality and quantity of support, time and recovery services within available resources.
To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles.
All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Main duties of the job
The job will be covering the whole of Hertfordshire, your main base will be at St Paul's, Slippers Hill, Hemel Hempstead. This is a community post.
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.
Responsible for providing support to the EROS multi-disciplinary team, in the implementation of a recovery focused care plan for an allocated number of individual service users.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 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 serviceusers 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 usersprogress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staffinvolved in the service users care.To maintain accurate records as required by existing procedures, enteringappropriate details on the service users case notes / electronic patient recordsas necessary.To ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care acrosssector / agency boundaries with key contact points / named individuals.To participate in and be responsible for appropriate elements of staffdevelopment as part of STAR Team meetings as and when required.To liaise and work in close co-operation with the Team Leader, other mentalhealth professionals, and voluntary and private sector agencies as required, tohelp ensure that best value services are delivered to the users of the EROS service.To undertake direct service user work where this is deemed appropriate, and toproactively engage service users in working to achieve their own desiredoutcomes, in line with recovery principles, and as identified in their recovery journey.To respond to urgent situations emergencies or crises using local protocols.To use information systems including information technology and be willing toundertake appropriate training.To attend and actively participate in training sessions, team / care plan reviewmeetings and supervision as appropriate.To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.
The successful applicant must also be/able to :-
IT literate and able to present information to a range of audiences through a range of media.To ensure that up to date written and electronic records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.To contribute to the recording of statistical activity as appropriate in the settingTo be responsible for the safekeeping and use of equipment and materials.To ensure Health and safety Regulations and Information Governance Regulations are observed and instituted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 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 serviceusers 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 usersprogress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staffinvolved in the service users care.To maintain accurate records as required by existing procedures, enteringappropriate details on the service users case notes / electronic patient recordsas necessary.To ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care acrosssector / agency boundaries with key contact points / named individuals.To participate in and be responsible for appropriate elements of staffdevelopment as part of STAR Team meetings as and when required.To liaise and work in close co-operation with the Team Leader, other mentalhealth professionals, and voluntary and private sector agencies as required, tohelp ensure that best value services are delivered to the users of the EROS service.To undertake direct service user work where this is deemed appropriate, and toproactively engage service users in working to achieve their own desiredoutcomes, in line with recovery principles, and as identified in their recovery journey.To respond to urgent situations emergencies or crises using local protocols.To use information systems including information technology and be willing toundertake appropriate training.To attend and actively participate in training sessions, team / care plan reviewmeetings and supervision as appropriate.To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.
The successful applicant must also be/able to :-
IT literate and able to present information to a range of audiences through a range of media.To ensure that up to date written and electronic records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.To contribute to the recording of statistical activity as appropriate in the settingTo be responsible for the safekeeping and use of equipment and materials.To ensure Health and safety Regulations and Information Governance Regulations are observed and instituted.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 qualification or mental health certificate level 3 or agreement to undertake such training as soon as resources permit
- NVQ/Mental Health Certificate Level 2
- Commitment to Continuing Personal Development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 qualification or mental health certificate level 3 or agreement to undertake such training as soon as resources permit
- NVQ/Mental Health Certificate Level 2
- Commitment to Continuing Personal Development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
