Primary Care Worker: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

We seek the services of a Primary Care Worker. Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are transforming Adult Community Services. They are delivering a new and innovative Enhanced Primary Care Service to people in Watford and are now looking to expand this service to cover Hemel Heamstead and St Alban’s. Our Enhanced service will join with existing primary and secondary care services, working in partnership with both, to ensure a great needs led pathway is available for people in Hemel Hempstead and St Alban’s.

This is an exciting Primary Care Worker opportunity to work in a developing service, using new pathways that are needs led. Our new workforce will work closely with service users and carers, using continuous quality improvement tools to shape the service in the coming months.

The role requires our staff to be confident, flexible and dynamic in their approach to their work with a positive outlook to working within a fast paced environment. You will be a good team player. In return for this you would be offered continued training, and an opportunity to contribute to service development whilst working within a friendly and supportive team.

Main duties of the Primary Care Worker

• In this role you will work to build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users and their Carers. You will also assist in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of recovery care plans, attending and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings in the planning, implementation and review of service user care plans.
• You will also assist in the provision of low intensity psychological interventions to support service users in achieving personal goals to resolve concerns with anxiety and low mood.
• Primary Care Worker will provide an effective link between General Practitioners, housing, carers centre, and other statutory and non-statutory agencies and secondary care, to act in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields and to develop joint working relationships.
• Primary Care Worker will support the recovery journey of those who are being discharged to primary care from secondary care during the transitional phase.
• You will also identify and support GPs in the management and care of those patients who are frequent users of services.

To provide the skills and confidence required to manage these mental health needs appropriately we will train our workforce in coaching skills, solution focused questioning, motivational interviewing and a holistic approach to understanding people’s needs.

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 theCare 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: