Youth Worker

Play and Youth services at Birmingham Children's hospital, have an exciting opportunity for a JNC Qualified youth worker, to join our youth team. The post holder is required to work with young people age 10 plus, with challenges relating to long term conditions, treatments and hospitalisation.

This post is part-time, 32 hours per week. It is essential that the hours of work are flexible to meet the needs of theclient group, to include evenings, weekend and Bank Holiday activity with shifts ranging from 8.00am - 8.00pm, To work within the Play & Youth Services team delivering professional youth work supporting the Trust adolescentstrategy and specific identified aims, outputs and outcomes. To work closely with other Youth work colleagues todevelop the services for adolescents.To deliver and contribute to the development of recreational and general support services for young peopleincluding all Birmingham Children's Hospital locations.To provide structured support to individual adolescents referred to the Play & Youth Services identified as havingspecific issues. To monitor, prioritise and manage an individual caseload or undertake referrals as directed by theSenior Youth Worker/ Senior Play Specialist or Deputy Manager.To work flexibly to provide a varied programme of activities and interests, recreational and social facilities during theday, evenings and weekends with due regard for the needs and opinions of young people.To participate as a professional member of the Play & Youth Services Department
and contribute to the care of thepatients of the Trust as part of the multidisciplinary team relating to their all-round cultural and diversity, social,developmental and emotional health and well-being needs.To contribute to the development of a coherent approach to Clinical Governance within the Service.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.