Job summary
Youth workers support individuals with any presenting need, concerns or difficulties that might be affecting their mental health and wellbeing. Youth Workers provide time limited 1:1 support to clients giving information and/or support to allow them to access a wide range of agencies and services that can provide help and advice with for example, housing, social isolation and exclusion, education, debt management, mental health and employment issues. Youth Workers develop links into the community and agencies to enable improved, supported access to services.
The post holder will be based within the Liaison & Diversion service within police custody suites working with adults, children and young people with a range of vulnerabilities who have come into contact with the Criminal Justice System.
The youth worker will have a focus on those that are under the age of 18, linking in to various Children and Young Person services including health, social care and Childrens safeguarding.
The post holder will support clients who are typically hard to engage, to access and utilise primary, secondary and community services in order to improve their use of resources, which is likely to improve their mental health, social difficulties and reduce the risk of them reoffending.
Main duties of the job
To attend police custody suites and to carry out screening with Lead Nurses (Band 6), to give advice, and implement the delivery of the all vulnerabilities pathways (Women, Children/ young people, veterans, sex offenders, learning disabilities, substance misuse, people open to mental health services) for individuals where potential vulnerabilities have been identified.
To liaise and plan alongside Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion Nurses and an extensive number of external agencies for the provision of assessment, disposal and the care pathway of service users. This includes parents/carers of young people.
To communicate, provide, and receive complex, sensitive and at times contentious information where skills of, motivational, joint decision making, empathy, advisory and signposting are required, often in situations where there are barriers to understanding and high stress levels, e.g. court rooms and police custody settings.
The postholder will manage a caseload of Criminal Justice Service users with oversight from registered clinicians in the team; working autonomously on a daily basis, assessing, planning and implementing interventions appropriate to the individual’s needs.
To work autonomously to assess the needs of the individual and formulate appropriate interventions through a person cantered approach.
About us
Join ‘Team Derbyshire Healthcare’ and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people’s lives’.
CQC rated us as ‘GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”
Benefits include:
Date posted
23 November 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£23,949 to £26,282 a year pa, pro-rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
383-SPE-5888-22
Job locations
St Andrews House
201 London Road
Derby
DE1 2TZ
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB – this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience
Essential
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience
Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
