Ed Specialist Caseworker

**The role involves case management for young victims of violence (aged 12-25) at Northwick Park Hospital, working full-time until March 2026. Responsibilities include providing support, advocacy, and risk management, collaborating with various agencies, and contributing to staff training. The position requires experience with high-risk youth and offers a salary of £26,000 per annum.**

**Responsible to**:
Team Leader/NHS Partnership Services Manager

**Responsible for**:
Case management for victims of violence, aged 12-25 years

**Hours**:
Full Time, 35 hours per week. **Fixed term until 31 March 2026**

**Grade**:
Band 2

**Location**:
Northwick Park Hospital Emergency Department and community

**Holiday**:
30 days + bank and statutory holidays

**Salary**:
£26,000 per annum

**Application Deadline**:
Sunday, 1st June 2025 at 11.00pm
Please note this role requires Enhanced Child and Adult with Child Barred and NHS vettingSt Giles Trust is a Charity helping people facing severe disadvantage to find jobs, homes, and the right support they need. We help them to become positive contributors to local communities and wider society. We passionately believe everybody is capable of changing their lives. Our mission is we empower people to overcome injustices for themselves, their families and their local communities - we achieve this through offering support from someone who has been there. Our peer-led services form the backbone of our work.

St Giles is expanding its delivery of hospital-based projects; this service is aimed at vulnerable 12 to 25-year-olds who attend the adult or paediatric A&E departments or Urgent Care Centres Northwick Park Hospital. We will work alongside hospital staff to proactively identify vulnerable young people and help them to access and engage the support they need to prevent any potential escalation of violence and reduce the risk of repeat victimisation or exploitation.

You will be embedded into the hospital, providing support for those young people admitted to emergency departments right through to their discharge back into the community. You will have experience of working with ‘high risk,’ vulnerable young people, be part of a multidisciplinary team, and have a flexible, empathetic approach to your work.

You will be part of a comprehensive service delivering across St Giles that is mindful of, and promotes the organisation’s Vision, Mission, Values and strategic aims.

**(1) Key Deliverables**:
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to identify and assess young victims of violence, with reference to St Giles’ assessment practices-
To contribute to the services’ out of hours rota as required-
To be provide support, advice and advocacy for children, young people and their families as they plan to be discharged from hospital back into the community-
To produce support plans and risk management plans based on assessments. To promote inter-agency collaboration in the assessment and planning process, and to include appropriate agencies in the delivery of the service-
To develop and maintain relationships with partner agencies, including community-based services such as police, YOT, Probation, children’s services, local authorities and other voluntary sector organisations ensuring appropriate information is shared, supported referrals are made and avoiding duplication of support-
To deliver a holistic support service working solo or with colleagues as the situation dictates; providing a practical service that will include social support, housing support, accompanying to appointments, ETE options, benefits work, debt advice, assistance obtaining furniture, liaising with utilities, appearing in court, DIY work and cleaning-
To close cases efficiently and positively, identifying a referral route for children and young people that will identify agencies that can be used for ongoing support and agencies that can be used if serious problems develop in the future-
To promote the value of lifestyle changes to the children and young people being supported-
To actively contribute to the training and development of hospital staff to increase their awareness and-
them to better identify and support young victims of violence-
To accurately and regularly collect information and evidence to support the with the monitoring and the evaluation of the service-
To adhere to St Giles (and the relevant hospitals) policy’s and procedures including safeguarding, risk management, lone working, GDPR and diversity & inclusion-
To invest in your personal development by attending core and additional training to keep abreast of issues facing children and young people such as Trauma Informed Training, Child Criminal (and sexual) exploitation and contextual safeguarding-
To carry out any other similar duties as required and be flexible to the changing needs of this new, fast paced service**Person Specification**:
**(2) Knowledge & Experience**:
Personal experience of the criminal justice system, lived experi