STR Worker

Job summary

The Multiple Disadvantage Team has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, flexible and highly skilled STR worker. The team work with clients who present with complex co-occurring needs, including, but not limited to, mental health, substance & alcohol use, homelessness, offending and trauma backgrounds. The role includes providing care for a caseload of clients supporting longer term assessments to understand the complex interplay of co-occurring needs. Supporting the stabilisation of clients in order to better understand their needs and allow them to engage with services in a way to address these needs. Clients may also be under the care of existing services but require short term scaffolding support to prevent service users falling out of services.

Excellent networking and communication skills are essential with the role involving a great deal of multi-agency working. The role requires a great deal of innovation and adaptable communication and engagement skills in order to provide meaningful outcomes to this client group.

A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of working with clients who experience multiple disadvantage and of working in a joined up multi-agency way.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.

Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 their care.

Report regularly to care coordinators as appropriate key worker(s)

To maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service users case notes 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.

Support the Foundation worker in their role providing advice/supervision/training where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health or commitment to work towards achieving it.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with people with mental health needs. Supporting people with activities of daily living and promoting self-care and social functioning.

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge and understanding of the needs of and issues facing people and their carers who have mental health support needs. Recognise the importance of recovery in mental illness.

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