Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for afull time Youth Worker to join the Northern Care Alliance as part of Oldham Care Organisation and managed by Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT) Youth Service at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. The role is a full-time position predominantly Monday to Friday with occasional weekend, evening and residential work. The post is working across Oldham, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale and we are looking for someone with a minimum of 2 years youth work experience in the NHS, voluntary sector, or community services.
The Youth Worker will be supporting young people with Epilepsy a long-term health condition. The focus of the work will be on the young person's social and emotional needs within the children's, adult and community services. The Youth Worker will work alongside the multi-professional team including Doctors, Specialist Nurses Therapies and Health Play Specialists. They will provide holistic advice and care to young people that are being prepared for the move from children to adult healthcare services. The Youth Workers will deliver this work through one to one, group work, peer support and youth work sessions. The Youth Worker should be self-motivated, can use their own initiative and be responsive to the needs of young person in a healthcare setting.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role are:
- Supporting young people with a long term health condition, both when they are an inpatient and outside of the hospital setting.
- Provide holistic support for the young people to meet their individual needs. Acting as an advocate to multiple services including hospital, education and employment. This requires good communication skills, active listening skills and to be empathetic towards the young person's needs.
- Provide support and guidance to the young people during their healthcare transition between children's and adult services.
- Supporting patients on the wards throughout their treatment whilst they are unwell. The Youth Worker should have the ability to deal with challenging situations in the healthcare setting, have a degree of resilience and be able to work in clinical areas.
- Plan and run Youth Club sessions and off site activities, including residential weekends,
- Being creative, dynamic and self-motivated are desirable attributes of the Youth Worker.
- Be part of the staff team who support the Youth Forum.
- Work with the multi-professional team, building relationships and working within Youth Worker professional boundaries.
- Good working knowledge of computer systems and documenting to a high standard is essential.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Youth Work Diploma or equivalent in youth work, psychology or Social Sciences (Dip HE /JNC level)
- Experience working with young people aged 11-25 yrs in a healthcare setting or equivalent setting
Desirable
- Counselling Certificate
- Teaching Certificate
- Art Therapy
- Special Needs
- Further knowledge through short courses to Degree Level.
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Understanding the purpose of Youth Work within a hospital setting
- Experience of working with CYP in a wide variety of settings
- Resource management
- Time management skills, able to work on own initiative.
- Knowledge of issues relating to consent and confidentiality
- Connections with other youth services and charities in the local community
Desirable
- Membership/registration with National Youth Agency
- Hospital Based Youth Worker Group
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability in project work involving youth participation/engagement
- Experience of organising and running a range of youth focused activities and peer to peer support activities
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments and addressing risk/safeguarding issues for 1:1 and group activities with TYA
- Experience of supervising volunteers
- Experience of implementing safeguarding responsibilities, health and safety, data protection, equality and diversity policies, procedures, and practice
Desirable
- Experience of dealing with distressing and emotional circumstances relating to everyday experiences of TYA with long term conditions who may have a reduced life expectancy
- Experience of working with CYP with a longterm condition
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Youth Work Diploma or equivalent in youth work, psychology or Social Sciences (Dip HE /JNC level)
- Experience working with young people aged 11-25 yrs in a healthcare setting or equivalent setting
Desirable
- Counselling Certificate
- Teaching Certificate
- Art Therapy
- Special Needs
- Further knowledge through short courses to Degree Level.
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Understanding the purpose of Youth Work within a hospital setting
- Experience of working with CYP in a wide variety of settings
- Resource management
- Time management skills, able to work on own initiative.
- Knowledge of issues relating to consent and confidentiality
- Connections with other youth services and charities in the local community
Desirable
- Membership/registration with National Youth Agency
- Hospital Based Youth Worker Group
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability in project work involving youth participation/engagement
- Experience of organising and running a range of youth focused activities and peer to peer support activities
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments and addressing risk/safeguarding issues for 1:1 and group activities with TYA
- Experience of supervising volunteers
- Experience of implementing safeguarding responsibilities, health and safety, data protection, equality and diversity policies, procedures, and practice
Desirable
- Experience of dealing with distressing and emotional circumstances relating to everyday experiences of TYA with long term conditions who may have a reduced life expectancy
- Experience of working with CYP with a longterm condition
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
