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Trosolwg o'r swydd

The post holder will carry out mental health care and support to older people with mental health problems in the community in accordance with a laid down programme of care as designed by the multi-disciplinary team. The support worker provides this care under the direction of qualified nurses and social workers and encourages independence within the service user’s social network. The post holder will regularly work alone without direct supervision for part of the span of duty.
Support workers will have close working links and work in a co-ordinated
manner with the members of the multi-disciplinary team, as well as Day
Centre staff, Home Care staff and any other voluntary or statutory agencies involved with service users in their care. 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

We are seeking a motivated and self directed individual to join our crisis team working with older people. 

Mental Health Services for Older People in East Hertfordshire work with older people to assess, diagnose, treat and support mental health conditions and/or dementia. The post holder will support the qualified staff by working to care plans that aim to enhance and optimise the potential and recovery of people who are open to our service. The post holder will also support qualified staff with other tasks to ensure the smooth running of the care that we provide.

Mental Health Services for Older People has four departments - Community, Crisis, Therapies, and Early Memory Diagnosis and Support. The post holder will primarily work with the crisis team, but may also be required to work across the other three teams at times. We primarily see people in their own homes.

Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)

Working hours are on a shift rota between  Monday to Friday 8am to 9pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 7pm. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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…