Youth Worker

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Youth Worker to join the Children’s Services team in Ipswich. You will work with young people, families and multi-disciplinary teams to promote wellbeing, resilience and development outside clinical care.

You will advocate for young people, support engagement with healthcare and participate in transition planning, ensuring services remain youth-friendly and accessible across hospital and community settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in youth work within healthcare settings.
• Ability to engage with children, young people and families.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development of services for young people.
• Advocate and provide support for young people in transition and with adult services.
• Assist with activities that support personal, social and educational development, including evenings and weekends.
• Collaborate with education teams and community programmes.

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and creative Youth Worker to join our Children’s Services team at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT).

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your youth work expertise into a healthcare environment and help ensure that the voices, experiences and needs of children and young people are at the heart of our services.

You will work alongside children, young people, families and our multidisciplinary teams, providing support that goes beyond clinical care. You will help young people to develop confidence, independence and self-management, while ensuring their emotional, social and developmental needs are recognised.

The role will involve building positive relationships with young people, supporting engagement with healthcare, contributing to transition, promoting participation and helping us develop services that are genuinely young-person friendly.

We are looking for someone who is approachable, resilient, creative and able to connect with young people, including those who may find healthcare environments challenging. You will be a strong advocate for young people and confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team.

This post is in Ipswich with cross cover to Colchester when needed.

• To contribute to the development of services for young people at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust.
• To act as an advocate and source of support for young people within Children’s services including transition service and relevant adult services when required. Work closely with the education teams within the hospital setting and in partnership with community programmes and charities.
• To assist with the provision of a varied programme of personal, social and educational developmental activities with due regard for the needs and opinions of young people. This will include evenings and weekends as required.
• To contribute to the development of the team through identified project aims communicating effectively with the senior nursing team, transition and the required specialist teams.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex.

Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Martina Thomas Job title: Matron - Children's Services Email address: [e-mail]