Senior Keyworker

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has risen to be part of the development of the Humber and North Yorkshire Dynamic Support Keyworker Service following it's transition from an NHSE Early Adopter site to a substantive/long term delivery that covers the Integrated Care Board Footprint across the Humber and North Yorkshire. The service is a hub and spoke model with two geographical spokes: One spoke will cover Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Linconshire and the other spoke will cover North Yorkshire and York.

We are interested in getting the right person in post and looking for Senior Dynamic Support Keyworkers who will bring advanced knowledge and experience to build this multi-agency way of working into the development of the service. While it is desirable that there is experience of psychologically-informed approaches and system working there will be opportunity to be trained in AMBIT by Anna Freud Trainers.

If you have a real passion for making a difference for children, young people families, working co-productively and would like to be part of helping to continue to shape this new service as it moves forward, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Keyworker brings expertise and consultation into the Keyworking Service. This is a non clinical role and we invite applications from across relevant specialisms across either Health, Education, Social Care, Voluntary and Community Sector.

We are looking for a person where you have experience of either lived or working with children, young people or adults with learning disability and or autism or both with the most complex needs. We are also interested in applicants with experience of working with children and young people who are looked after by the Local Authority or adopted children or of experience of supporting young people's transition between services.

As a Senior Dynamic Support Keyworker you may be expected to visit individuals in their home environment, setting or community and to work with local services in those areas. There will be an expectation to attend face to face team meetings at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Headquaters at Willerby and this be your contractual base however with an expectation of home working in the first instance.

This is a permanent post. You will need to hold a drivers licence and theability to commute across Humber and North Yorkshire with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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