Youth Mental Health Support Worker

6 months ago

Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom Youth Fed Full time

Job Advert

**Job Purpose**:
**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- NB: The list of responsibilities is a guide and may include but are not limited to the following. You may be required to undertake such other duties commensurate with the post as and when required_
- Deliver bespoke emotional health & wellbeing sessions to young people, youth leaders, practitioners and volunteers who engage and support children & young people with a focus on the 10 -29 age range.
- Deliver low to medium intensity therapeutic intervention and case work on an individual basis to those young people who are already working with Youth Federation focussing on the 10-29 age range
- Welcoming and introducing children and young people who have been referred to Youth Fed for additional support.
- Having conversations with children and young people, identifying and assessing the issues affecting them and giving support, information and guidance about services and opportunities to help with their emotional needs
- Working with young people to develop or implement a personal plan combining for example counselling with local providers, on-line support and positive activities. Following up and ensuring the personal plan is progressed.
- Identifying and referring when further targeted or clinical support might be needed.
- Including and advising family members or carers how best to support their children in management of their personal plan.
- Efficiently managing the workload and ensuring that all contact work and outcomes are documented, evaluated and that data is inputted into a case management system.
- Giving support to young people who are already accessing Youth Fed who could benefit from emotional and well-being services as an early intervention.
- Ensure compliance with Youth Fed standards, procedures and ‘best practice’ processes, and all directives are constantly being met.
- Support other ad hoc projects and programmes with, administrative, operations and support duties.as required

You have a legal duty that gives you responsibility, so far as is reasonably practicable, to ensure that you do not endanger yourself or anyone else by your acts or omissions and that you safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of the children and young people you work with.

**Person Specification**:
**Essential Criteria**:
**Qualifications**
- Have a relevant professional/clinical qualification in young people’s mental health, counselling or psychology or significant experience working within the field.

**Experience**
- Working with and providing interventions to children and young people in relation to mental health
- Delivering programmes to individuals and groups both face to face and virtually
- Working to targets and reporting against them
- Measuring the impact of your work

**Skills**
- Ability to confidently advise on key concerns including: anxiety, depression, suicidal feelings/risk, self-harm, anger/violence, school issues, and problems accessing or navigating services
- Self starter, able to manage own time and caseload efficiently.
- Leading group work
- ability to handle conflict
- Diplomacy
- presentation and training skills
- preparing and presenting reports
- IT Skills
- Excellent communication skills

**Knowledge**
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding relating to children and young people’s mental health
- Knowledge of interventions and strategies that can help to support young people’s mental health
- Knowledge of the Mental Health issues that affect young people
- Knowledge of service that young people can be referred into

**Attitudes**
- Can work flexibly, some evening work maybe required along with an occasional weekend
- Commitment to equality of opportunity,
- Patience
- Humour
- Non-judgemental approach
- Supportive attitude
- Committed to continual development

**Additional**
- Driver with access to car

All the person specifications will be assessed through Application Form and Interview Process

Youth Federation is an equal opportunities employer.

Applications will be sent on expression of interest

or submitted via post to:
Youth Federation, 20 Rossmore Business Village, Inward Way, Ellesmere Port, Chester, CH65 3EY.

**Subject to close at any time due to a high number of applicants

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