Youth Support Worker

3 days ago

Braintree, Essex, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role

You will be working as a Youth Support Worker, playing a vital role in promoting and enhancing the health and wellbeing of children and young people in Essex. You will work closely with schools, community groups, and families to deliver high-quality services that make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals and families.

Your primary responsibility will be to deliver targeted interventions and groups to meet the needs of children and young people who require additional support. You will also be responsible for assessing risk and providing brief intervention and solution-focused support to address a range of issues including emotional wellbeing, exploitation, and substance misuse.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated professional to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people. If you have a passion for improving health outcomes and working collaboratively with communities, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Delivery of targeted interventions and groups to meet the needs of children and young people who require additional support.
  • To assess risk and provide brief intervention and solution-focused support to address a range of issues including emotional wellbeing, exploitation, and substance misuse.
  • To establish contact and build sustainable working relationships with young people and families at risk of social and educational exclusion, ensuring the personal and social education needs of young people are identified and met.
  • To work in a multi-disciplinary framework with key partners, including the statutory and voluntary sector, in identifying and responding to young people and family needs.
  • Delivery of targeted Health promotion campaigns, through mediums such as social media and PSHE.
  • Work with parents, carers, and families to ensure that they are appropriately engaged in the support process and that they know how to access support for themselves and their children.
  • Assess risk of delivering community nursing in settings where this may be harmful to nurses and carers.

Requirements:

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in Public Health or Public Health Nursing.
  • Ability to identify, assess, and manage risk and develop interventions to improve health and wellbeing.
  • High level of understanding of the educational, employment, and social care needs of children and young people.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues in plain language at all levels both within and outside the organisation.
  • Experience of managing a caseload of young people, from vulnerable groups, and the ability to differentiate clearly between personal and professional roles.
  • Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with partner agencies, colleagues, external bodies, and service users.
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment and ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people with the skills to build sustainable professional boundaries and appropriate relationships with young people.
  • Demonstrable understanding of: Children's Act, Healthy Child Programme Choosing Health, and other relevant national and local documents.

Benefits:

  • Starting salary of £28,875 per annum.
  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
  • Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
  • Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
  • An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ring-fenced innovation funding each year.
  • The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About Us

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services, including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

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