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Postvention Children and Young People Worker
2 weeks ago
Job Advert
**J**OB DESCRIPTION**
**Job Title**:
Children and Young People Worker
**Grade & Salary**:
£ 29,132
**Hours of work**:
37.5
**Contract**:
Fixed Term contract
**Job Type**:
Full-time
**Based at**:
23 Monck Street, London, SW1P 2AE
**Main Responsibilities**:
- To provide a high quality, client-led trauma informed support service to children and young people affected by suicide, enabling them to
- Address issues resulting from experiences of suicide
- Empower children and young people to aspire to a positive future
- Contribute to the prevention of future potential attempted suicide by promoting healthy attitudes to relationships, life, resilience, families and their communities and friendships
**Role tasks**:
- Provide early identification, intervention and support to CYP to prevent the development of negative health outcomes for children who have been affected by suicide. With a focus on identifiers such as poor school performance, decreased social adjustment and higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression.
- This service will have a pathway dedicated to working with children and young people that runs parallel to the core service. This will comprise of:
- Immediate response following the suspected incident of suicide loss with a focus on supporting children and young persons around communication and addressing immediate issues of uncertainty, anxiety, anger and blame.
- Deliver Group interventions and peer support focused on exploring reactions to death and suicide and strengthening coping skills for bereaved children.
- Individual emotional and practical support and signposting to appropriate specialist services.
- Coordination with other key stakeholders that may be involved in the care of the child or young person. This may include schools, community groups, GPs and other professionals.
- The service will be sensitive and adaptable to the child or young person’s communication style and ensure any support materials developed are relevant and age appropriate. Parents and carers will also need support to find the best words to share 11 information with children, ways of opening up conversations and how to respond to difficult questions.
- The service will provide support to education settings such as schools, colleges and universities located within NW London. Offer guidance on developing and implementing postvention protocols and procedures to be followed in the aftermath of a suicide in the community.
- This might include providing resources and support to affected students, staff, and parents, as well as facilitating open and honest communication about the incident. In addition, it will offer emotional and practical support and signposting for students and staff who may be experiencing grief and trauma related to the suicide loss.
- This can be done through individual or group sessions, which provide a safe space for individuals to express their emotions and receive guidance on coping strategies.
- Work within a whole family approach to supporting young people, facilitating clear pathways into relevant services and maintaining effective information sharing between services.
- Assess, manage, and review risks to children/young people (CYP), parents, colleagues, and self.
- Assess the needs of CYP and develop outcome focussed support plans using solution focussed, strength-based methods, in partnership with the CYP and, as appropriate, parent/carer, enabling them to increase feelings of safety and recover from their experiences of suicide postvention
- Implement and review support and risk management plans to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.
- Develop and deliver planned interventions to meet needs and improve outcomes for CYP and families, including tailored one to one support and group work.
- Deliver appropriate interventions for CYP relating to postvention suport
- Deliver programmes promoting safe relationships to prevent future experiences of abuse.
- Plan and implement activities to ensure the service is informed by the voices of CYP so we understand their needs and how we can improve our services.
- Work with colleagues to deliver an effective service in line with stakeholder needs, policies & procedures, and budget parameters.
- Ensure personal safety and that of CYP and other staff.
- Safeguard the health & welfare of CYP and their families.
- Work effectively in partnership with multiple statutory and voluntary agencies to enhance service delivery.
- Maintain accurate and confidential case management records and databases and contribute monitoring information for the service.
- Set up and facilitate various user led support groups
- Attend multi agency meetings to support work with families.
- Prepare and present reports where appropriate, including to support legal processes.
- Comply with data protection legislation, confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedures and all legislation connected to your work.
- Respect and value the diversity of th
