Job overview

To act as care coordinator for those service users settled in placements in south west Hertfordshire who require an annual review of their care .

Acting as a point of contact fro care providers 

Acting as a point of contact to the HPFT placement service 

Supervising a Band 4 STaR worker dedicated to providing support to those in Community placements 

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated and skilled mental health practitioner to join the Adult Community Mental Health services  in a specialist post as a placement care coordinator for service users in funded social care and health placements for the South West quadrant of Hertfordshire.

You will need to have a good understanding of social care and the Care Act. The post holder will have the ability to assess need and commission packages of care to promote strength based interventions with a focus on the Recovery model.

The Post holder will work with a Support Time and Recovery worker as part of the Adult Community Mental health staff team and  liaise closely with key staff members in the Continuing Care and Placement Service. You will need to coordinate annual placement reviews and respond as and when required to change in service user need. Additionally, you will develop and foster good relationships with placement providers and the Adult Community Mental Health Service and work alongside them to promote and deliver the Connected Lives Programme.

 

 

Working for our organisation

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…”