Job responsibilities
This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service and Service Lead. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you will work as part of a diverse clinical team pro-actively developing the service through co-production, delivery, and ongoing innovation.
Main Tasks:
To deliver therapeutic interventions to children and young people, working independently.
To co-facilitate online groups alongside colleagues within the team.
To undertake professional initial assessments of young people.
To provide ongoing and one-off interventions to young people.
To develop alternatives to one-to-one therapeutic work i.e., group work.
To facilitate peer support interventions with and for children and young people.
To maintain confidential, high quality case notes and records in a timely manner ensuring that they are stored securely using the specified case management systems.
To develop links to other agencies and services and have a good understanding of local services for signposting and onward referrals.
To positively manage risk and recognise and pro-actively respond to child protection and safeguarding issues.
Communication
Be able to communicate and engage with children and young people appropriate to individual needs.
Ensure young people feel listened to, feel in control and are respected.
Promote a mutually respectful working environment, nurturing a positive team culture.
Skills & Competencies required:
Experience of working with Children and Young People who have experienced challenges with their wellbeing.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
Experienced in working with children and young people and experienced in engaging peers, professionals, and family members/carers.
Experienced in providing pastoral care to Children and Young People.
Positive and proactive to achieve the highest standards and outcomes in engagement with children, young people, their parent/carers, and professionals
Adept in communication and confident communicating with CYP (Children and Young Peoples), their parents/carers and health professionals
Open, respectful, committed to equality and inclusiveness and motivated by new ideas and perspectives
A team player
Standard Information
Information Governance
Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.
Smoke Free
ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.
Training
The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.
The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.
Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.
Please note that we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role
