Carer Support

An exciting opportunity for the post of Carer Support & Wellbeing Worker has become available within SW & NW Older People's Community Mental Health Team. The Post is based in the SW and covers the whole of West Hertfordshire.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. With a workforce of c. 3,000 and an annual income of c. £200m, the Trust is organised across three Strategic Business Units and provides integrated health and social care services through a large network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Hertfordshire, Norfolk, North Essex and Buckinghamshire. As a university trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research capability. Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT. Building on the CQC Good, we are on our “Good to Great” journey as we continue to innovate, improve, transform and ultimately deliver the very highest standards of care to the service users and communities that we serve.

You will work as part of a community team, along with other Health Care Professionals including Social Workers, Community Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychiatrists and Psychologists. Your role would focus exclusively on the needs of carers requiring support (including assessment of their needs) and act as an expert within this geographical area of responsibility.

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 3500 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?

Then please read on ”
- To work as part of a community team which provides mental health services for older people across Hertfordshire and their carers.
- To focus exclusively on the needs of carers requiring support (including assessment of their needs) and act as an expert within geographical area of responsibility.
- To support older people’s community team members in understanding best practice approaches to assessing the needs of and supporting carers.
- To work within approaches outlined through the Care Act 2014 and local policy to ensure timely access to support for carers of people with a mental health issue.
- To assist the senior social worker to ensure the integrity of the HPFT Carer Pathway within geographical area
- To ensure that the wellbeing of carers is maintained at all times through promoting recovery oriented practice.