Youth & Community Worker - Youth Work in Hospital

5 months ago

Basildon, United Kingdom Essex County Council Full time

**About the role**

**Youth & Community Worker - Youth Work in Hospital Project**

Fixed Term, Full Time

£22,874 to £25,509 per annum

Location: Basildon and surrounding areas

Working Style: Community-based worker

**The Role**

The Youth Work in Hospital Project supports young people aged 11-19 years (up to 25 for young people with SEND), who either present at the A&E department or who have a chronic health condition.

The role includes working face to face with young people across South Essex and provide information and support. You will use your creativity to engage them in positive activities which will help them to overcome challenges.

**Responsibilities**
- Work with young people who present with a variety of needs to enable them to progress and develop.
- Work as part of a team, to ensure young people’s needs are at the forefront of all project delivery.
- Manage a defined caseload of young people to identify their needs and agree a package of support tailored to them.
- Create, maintain, and review accuracy of records in conjunction with DfE guidance and that of external funders, whilst ensuring compliance with Information Sharing Protocols.
- Collaborate with other professionals and statutory and voluntary community services - which may include senior school-based staff, social care, SEND, Youth Offending Service, housing, and partner agencies, to provide wider support to young people to remove barriers to development.
- Think creatively, challenging the norms, and constructively challenge those around you to ensure continuous improvement.
- Support the development and delivery of the Youth Work in Hospital Project, including completing assessments, covering 3-4 hospital shifts a week in the A&E department, including some evenings, and attending and contributing to team meetings, youth groups and quarterly reports.
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, including data management, equality and diversity legislation and ensure arrangements are in place to effectively manage concerns and complaints.

**Role Specific Responsibilities**
- Develop and deliver a programme of imaginative activities, encouraging the active participation and involvement of young people in developing their skills, understanding of others and the world around them within the project. Ensuring that young people and staff are fully involved in this process.
- Facilitate young people’s learning and understanding of their personal and social development in accordance with the core values of youth work.
- Work 1:1 with young people in a variety of settings to build and maintain professional relationships.
- Provide information and data as required.
- Take part in the Service supervision scheme and performance management scheme to identify priorities and learning needs.
- Ensure Child Protection/ Safeguarding Guidelines (SET) are followed and that all concerns are reported promptly.

**The Experience You Will Bring**
- A nationally recognised Level 2 JNC qualification, or equivalent, in youth support work (QCF, VRQ, NVQ or Local) with a willingness to undertake a relevant Level 3 qualification.
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development.
- Experience of working with innovative, social education programmes.
- Ability to develop work with young people to achieve planned outcomes.
- Experience of effective use of resources.
- Experience of successfully involving young people in decision making processes.
- Knowledge and experience of youth work methods and techniques.
- Good level of numeracy and literacy skills (GCSE A - C or equivalent or demonstrable experience) and good IT skills.
- ** The job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle is essential.**

To read more about us please visit: Education

**Why Essex?**

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

**What you should do next**

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