Youth Worker

1 week ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Youth Worker to join the Play and Youth Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a cross-site role, based across both the Chelsea and Westminster and West Middlesex University Hospital sites.


We are looking for a youth worker to work with primarily our adolescent patients experiencing difficulty in managing hospital admission and/or procedures.

The post holder will help to develop and deliver regular group sessions and activities and work with the MDT to improve care for our adolescent patients.

The post holder will also host the youth forum to help improve communication and gather feedback on patient experience.

This role is part of the friendly and welcoming Play and Youth Service team and will work across the paediatric wards and departments.

For further information, please get in touch

Olivia Marshall

  • To work primarily with adolescent patients experiencing difficulty in managing hospital admission/procedures, using evidence based practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions.
  • To develop and lead a young people's youth forum comprising patients, former patients and siblings aged years.
  • To develop and deliver regular group sessions and activities for adolescent inpatients.
  • To work with the multidisciplinary team in improving care for adolescent patients.
  • To supervise Play Service students on placement and student nurses in all areas.
About our organisation


Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 6,000 members of staff that care for nearly one million people locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.


We are one of the best performing FTs in London for A&E waiting times, and mortality rates are better than average.

Since the Care Quality Commission last inspected our hospitals we have taken on responsibility for a range of new services.


Our new services include:

  • Cardiac catheter service and a paediatric assessment unit on the West Middlesex site
  • Surgical assessment unit on the Chelsea site
  • New sexual health clinic at 10 Hammersmith Broadway
  • Virtual fracture clinics
  • Learning disabilities passports


Plans are in place for a £20 million expansion to critical care facilities and refurbishment of the children's unit at West Middlesex, both in partnership with the Trust's dedicated charity CW+.

Clinical/Therapeutic

  • To plan and implement interventions to achieve appropriate goals for the individual patient.
  • To use knowledge and understanding of child development to contribute to assessments and overall, long term care planning.
  • To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions in order to measure child's progress and ensure effectiveness of care planned.
  • To support children, young people and families or carers under stress and in crisis
Communication

  • To establish effective communication, both verbal and written, with all members of the multidisciplinary team in child health and in other departments of the hospital where children and young people are treated.
  • Engage in effective communication with a variety of ages and those with complex needs.
  • To develop a communication strategy to enable recruitment to the youth forum, as well as the ongoing promotion of this group.
  • Maintain good communication with Patient and Public Engagement and Experience Group (PPEE) about the work of youth forum and continue to share their feedback.
Documentation

  • To ensure that up to date written records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust policy.
To document all feedback, discussions and outcomes that arises within youth forum meetings.

Please see full job description.

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