Specialist Nurse Youth Justice Service

Job summary

Welcome to Locala Health and Wellbeing proud to provide NHS community healthcare services. We help people have better lives and you can too.

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

If you are CARING and AMBITIOUS then join Locala and BE PART OF IT.

Main duties of the job

Specialist Nurse Youth Justice Service - 22.5 hour per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, dynamic SCPHN to join our expanding and developing Health Team in the Youth Justice Service in Kirklees.

The successful candidate will be an integrated member of the wider multi-disciplinary Youth Justice Service working across Kirklees.

The post holder will complete holistic health assessments, focusing on physical health, emotional health and neurodiversity, offer specific intervention packages around physical health needs i.e. sleeping, lifestyles, sexual health, life skills; therapeutic interventions for low mood, anxiety, problems with emotional regulation and managing stress. The postholder will signpost, refer and support young people to access to other health services improving their health literacy and will work across the whole of Kirklees, seeing people in the community and school as well as at home and at YJS buildings.

Working with key partners there will be a requirement to develop and deliver co-operative working arrangements that support healthy outcomes for children, young people and their families.

We will support the successful candidate with a full induction programme including opportunities for development in the areas of mental health and learning disabilities.

About us

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:-

• Flexible working- We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension- We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Development opportunities - We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated Good NHS healthcare services, as well as having a positive social impact in local communities.