Main area: Youth Worker Grade Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday - 9.30-17.30/10.00-18.00)
Job ref: 213-CAX-7009798
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: LONDON
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 per annum including HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/2025 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Youth Worker to join the Paediatric Play & Youth service at Kings.
You will need a Youth Worker qualification and have experience in working with young people in a youth setting post qualification.
The post holder will work with young people on the paediatric wards to deliver regular group and individual activity sessions. You will use evidence-based practice to assess, plan, and evaluate therapeutic interventions.
The post holder is to work with and support young people to meet their individual needs in managing a hospital admission, providing opportunities to understand and navigate around conditions and issues relating to illness and treatment.
You will advocate to ensure the young person's voice is heard and that they are involved in the decision-making process that affects them to develop independence in health care management and empower them to take responsibility for themselves and develop confidence.
You should have excellent communication skills, requiring a high degree of empathy, understanding, diplomacy, honesty, integrity, and sensitivity. You will need to have experience of working well within a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining confidentiality throughout. You must be able to accurately document all patient interventions on the patient’s electronic notes.
You will need an understanding of the differing needs of patients with additional and special needs.
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure a high standard of recreation services for young people within the paediatric services.
2. To support young people who access hospital services.
3. To empower young people enabling them to have their voices heard and influence decision-making at various levels.
4. To facilitate a diverse range of personal and social development opportunities and a smooth transition into adult services.
5. To maintain the Youth room as a suitable environment for young people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To create an environment appropriate to having regard for young people’s physical, psychological, and social well-being and their family.
2. To assess, implement, and evaluate recreational programmes of individual young people including the occasional external social activity when funding allows.
3. To liaise with other members of the healthcare team in the management of the adolescent and their family in the hospital and the community.
4. To ensure specific documented goal-oriented therapeutic and recreation games are carried out.
5. To involve the family and the multidisciplinary team where appropriate in the young person’s recreation activities/programme.
6. To offer professional advice and support on youth-related matters.
7. To provide the appropriate remedial recreation to aid recovery, helping the young person to gain confidence, independence, and self-esteem.
8. To manage resources within agreed limits.
9. To liaise and work effectively with other members of the multidisciplinary team, particularly other youth teams, health play specialists, school teachers, nurses, and psychologists.
10. To be aware of health and safety policy and the impact on aspects of the adolescent service.
11. To demonstrate knowledge of child protection policies and procedures and the ability to protect children from harm.
12. To maintain records of activity and provide reports as required.
13. To report promptly to the appropriate ward manager/nurse in charge, any relevant information concerning the well-being of the young person.
14. To be responsible for mentoring/supervising students.
Person specification
Qualification and experience
* Registered Youth Work degree or equivalent Professional Qualification/Health Play Specialist Foundation Degree with Youth Work experience.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Knowledge in providing the appropriate remedial recreation to aid recovery, helping the young person to gain confidence, independence, and self-esteem.
* Experience of working with young people with long-term health conditions and their families.
* Evidence of contribution to policy and practice changes e.g., arising from audits or complaints.
IMPORTANT
* Check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you.
* If you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communications.
* To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advert.
* Please provide email addresses for referees where possible.
* Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy.
* All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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