Full job descriptionSTaR WorkerNHS AfC: Band 4Main area

Additional Clinical Services
Grade

NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract

Permanent
Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref

367-ACMS-101541
Site

Civic Offices
Town

Borehamwood
Salary

£29,812 - £32,715 per annum pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Salary period

Yearly
Closing

20/08/2026 23:59
Values Based ScreenerAt Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a ’completion code’ by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.


Job overviewPlease be aware that this role is NOT eligible for Sponsorship
Job Summary:
To work as part of a team which provides mental health services.
To focus directly on the needs of service users using the Support Time and Recovery Model.
To work across service and/or care group boundaries as necessary.
To work within the Care Programme Approach / Care Management process with a focus on Recovery Principles.
To provide support, give time and thus promote recovery.
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Main duties of the jobTo provide support, give time to an allocated group of service users and thus promote their recovery and promote their place in the broader community.

Responsible for providing support to the care coordinator in the implementation of a recovery focused care plan for an allocated number of individual service users.

To ensure that service users engage beneficially with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.

To positively promote independent living of service users within community.
Working for our organisationHertfordshire 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 4000 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?
Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesFor full details of the role and responsibilities for this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
Person specificationQualificationsEssential criteria*NVQ level 3 qualification or mental health certificate level 3 or agreement to undertake such training as soon as resources permit
*NVQ/Mental Health Certificate Level 2
*Commitment to Continuing Personal Development
ExperienceEssential criteria*Three years experience of providing mental health services from within a team setting, which may be combined with personal lived experience of mental health difficulties
Please note, we do not charge fees for job applications, recruitment processes, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. Please see the Trust careers vacancy webpage and Trac as the only authorised routes for recruitment communications, applications and verification of job offers.
Employer certification / accreditation badgesApplicant requirementsThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.