Ithrive Hub Co-ordinator

**Job Description - IThrive Co-ordinator**

**Job Title**

IThrive Co-ordinator

**Salary**

**£27,000 - £28,000 per annum pro rata for 30hrs per week**

**Length of Contract**

Initially a two year contract (following a successful 6 month probationary review)

**Hours of work**

30 hrs per week

**Annual Leave allowance**

25 days per annum for full time hours plus bank holidays

**Reporting to**

Bolton Together Chief Executive with clinical supervision provided by CAMHS.

**Base - **Working across member venues with some remote working as agreed with Line Manager.

**Job Purpose - **To co-ordinate a central referral Hub for the IThrive model of emotional health and well-being support for children and young people. To provide Information, Advice and Guidance to children, young people, and families. To navigate access to the most appropriate service within the Bolton Together emotional health and well-being offer and the wider community and voluntary sector. To support and facilitate a collaborative approach to improving children and young people’s emotional health and well-being.

**Main Duties**

1. To co-ordinate one referral point for practitioners, families and young people to access Bolton Together’s voluntary sector provision

2. To triage cases and conduct initial screenings and assessments with children and young people, triage and support access to the most appropriate service within the consortium and the community and voluntary sector

3. To co-ordinate access to support that is evidence based, safe, well led, effective, efficient, and responsive

4. To allocate cases via the Lamplight Database

5. To work closely with IThrive providers to discuss cases and support access to their provision

6. To liaise with referrers and multiagency professionals to support access to the right support for the child/young person.

7. To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and enable them to support their children

8. To support connectivity and clear communication between voluntary sector partners

9. To develop positive relationships with voluntary sector providers and those referring into the service

10.To support collaborative working with the CAMHS service and the wider health and social care workforce and schools to ensure access to the right service at the right time for children and young people.

11.To review providers waiting lists and support management of reduction of these

12.To identify gaps in provision and raise with the Chief Executive of Bolton Together

**Other Key Duties**

2. To facilitate meetings and deliver presentations to support collaboration

3. To line manage The EHWB Practitioner employed by Bolton Together

4. To attend Team Meetings, events and to undertake mandatory training

5. To keep accurate records and collate and analyse data for case management and evidencing of outputs and outcomes via the Lamplight Database

6. To contribute to monitoring and evaluation reports

7. To liaise closely with the Thrive Navigator within CAMHS

8. To work flexibly with some potential evening and weekend work by prior agreement.

9. To perform any other duties commensurate with these responsibilities, the grade of the post and skills and qualifications of the post-holder

**Person Specification**

Psychology or other health /youth related undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

Essential - Experience of supporting children and young people with their emotional health and well-being in a therapeutic setting

Essential - Experience of adopting evidence-based interventions to support children and young people to improve their emotional health and well being

Essential - Experience of triaging referrals

Desirable -Experience of working in the community and voluntary sector

Desirable - Ability to work collaboratively with a cross sector health and social care workforce

Essential - Ability to triage referrals

Essential-Ability to adopt assessment/outcome tools with the child or young person

Essential -Ability to develop positive relationships to support children and young people

Essential - Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Essential - Ability to measure outcomes

Essential - Ability to adopt a goal focused, person centred approach

Essential - Computer Literate

Essential - Accurate record keeper

Essential - A flexible approach and strong and clear decision making

Essential - Ability to work in a trauma informed way

Desirable - Knowledge of the issues facing children and young people that impact on their emotional health and well being

Essential - A knowledge of evidence-based interventions to support with emotional health and well-being

Essential - Knowledge of the iThrive Model to support CYP with their mental health

Desirable - Understanding of the importance of the voice of the child/young person

Essential - Sound understanding of safeguarding practices

Essential - Understanding of collaboration

Essential - Understanding of the