Youth Worker for Children, Young People and Families

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Youth Worker for Children, Young People and Familieswho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The role is full time, predominantly Mondayto Friday with some occasional weekend,evening,andcommunityworking. We are looking for someone withyouth work experience in the NHS, voluntary sector, or community services.

You will support young people with shorttermhealth needs as well aslong-termhealth conditions such as diabetes,andepilepsyandthose withdiagnosessuchasADHDand autism. The focus of the work will be on thechild'sandyoung person's social and emotional needs withinChildren's Services,Adultservices,and theCommunity.

You will be offering holistic advice and care toChildrenand YoungPeople(CYP)that are within Children's Servicesandthose who are being prepared for the move from children's to adult healthcare services. TheYouthWorkerwill deliver this work through one to one, group work, peersupport, and youth work sessions. You should be self-motivated,be able to usetheir owninitiativeand be responsive to the needs of youngpeoplein ahealthysetting.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Communicate effectively with CYPand their families/carers. Use acompassionate,individual,andinclusiveapproachto communication with childrenandyoungpeople who may have socialandcommunicationdifficulties,/special educational andlearning needs, learningdisabilityand autism.

To provide holistic support for the young personto meet their individual needs. Acting as an advocatetoCYP betweenmultipleagencies andservices, internal and external toENHTTincludingboth physical and mental health servicesandeducationandsocialservices.This requires good communication skills, active listening skills and to be empathetic towardstheCYP'sneeds.

Assess the needs ofCYP to correctly plan and deliver targetedprogrammesforexample forhealth-relatedconditions, fitness,smoking, drugs, gangs, violence, relationships and bullyingetc.

Work in partnership with families and other key people in theCYP'slife, as well as with professionals from otherorganisationsinvolved withCYPsuch as social care,physical and mentalhealth, police, education, youth offending teams and local authorities,in order tobuilda strong supportnetwork

Establish boundaries and challenge inappropriatebehaviour.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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