Young People's Worker - London, United Kingdom - Brandon Centre

Brandon Centre

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Young People's Worker:
Minding the Gap

Contract:
Permanent

Hours: 35 pw. Flexible working hours required - at least one day a month Saturday working.

Location:
The Hive, Catch22, 18 Harben Parade, Finchley Road, London NW3 6JP

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a highly innovative project delivering and providing an integrated holistic health and wellbeing support service for 16-24 year olds within the borough of Camden.

You will be working as part of a team to make a real difference to young people.

Using the benefit of your own experience as well as expert training you will provide health and wellbeing support to ensure young people can access all of the services they need as they transition to adulthood.

About us

The principal objective of Brandon Centre is to provide a professional, accessible, and flexible service, which responds to the psychological, medical, sexual and social needs of young people under 25 years and their families.

The services we provide are:

Mental Health and Wellbeing Services including individual Counselling & Psychotherapy for young people, Systemic Integrative Treatment for families using a range of evidence-based therapies and therapeutic work and a variety of innovative outreach projects in community settings.

Clinical Training and Consultancy including healthy living, parent programmes and other group work.

Job responsibilities

The Hive is part of The Minding the Gap programme, a cross-cutting support service aimed at 16-24 year olds in Camden needing support transitioning between children's and adult mental health services.

The Hive is delivered by a unique partnership between leading local providers in Camden and young people - set up to create an integrated, holistic provision for 16-24 year olds.

The Hive is commissioned by Camden Council and the Camden NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) from Catch 22, working with the Brandon Centre, the Anna Freud Centre, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, The Winch and The Integrate Movement.

You'll carry out assessments with young people in order to set goals and create holistic care plans to meet their needs.

You'll not be seeking to create a permanent mentor relationship and will work with young people to ensure that they can live their lives more independently of services or to ensure they are linked with other appropriate organisations to meet their needs.

A significant proportion of the service operates an outreach model of delivery, in the community, as preferred by the young person.

The outreach work particularly targets vulnerable young people who may not readily engage with services.

You'll support the Hub Manager to plan, advertise and carry out activities in The Hive our social hub.

Also support and engage in the group work element of The Hive, engaging with young people on the social hub and carrying out health and wellbeing activities.

The young people supported through this project will often be vulnerable and challenging, and workers need to be resilient, skilled, and flexible to ensure that we deliver a consistently high-quality service.

To be considered you will be:

Open to flexible delivery & able to adapt to change with a positive approach to work
Prepared to work flexible working hours including some evening/weekend work
Committed to valuing diversity & implementing equal opportunities & anti

- discriminatory practice

Passionate for achieving positive outcomes for young people.

Essential experience:

Knowledge and awareness of the types of issues that affect young people;
Knowledge of good practice in emotional wellbeing & mental health delivery for 1625 year olds & understanding of key issues concerning service delivery for this group.

Desirable

Knowledge & understanding of the issues facing socially excluded young people or those at risk of disengaging from mainstream activities and services
Knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and good practice relating to young people.

Essential skills

High end interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build and sustain relationships with service users who may present complex and sometimes challenging behaviours
Ability to engage a variety of stakeholders including young people, parents, professionals and other members of the community effectively
Ability to identify and assess potential risks that may arise for young people and an ability to work creatively and as part of a team to reduce these risks
Good verbal and written communication skills
Ability to set goals collaboratively with young people and support them in working towards achieving these goals
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential issues with tact and diplomacy, whilst maintaining boundaries
Good IT skills and ability to organise own work routines effectively and to work on own initiative to an agreed act