Hospital Based Youth Worker - UCLH

Redthread

Employment Type Full time 37.5 hours per week
Location On site · London, City of, UK University College London Hospital
Salary £29,767.50 per annum + benefits
Team Youth Violence Intervention
Seniority Mid-level
  • Closing: 10:00am, 6th Dec 2023 GMT

Job Description

Thank you for considering a Hospital Based Youth Worker role with Redthread. We are a team of compassionate, collaborative and courageous professionals, committed to empowering young people to change their lives.  This animation was created with our Youth Ambassadors and these clips, BBC News and ‘A day in the life’ will give you a taster of what we do every day.

As the Hospital Based Youth Worker, you will be supporting young people, aged 11-19, presenting at UCLH emergency department or who are inpatients within various areas of the hospital for whom there are safeguarding or there psycho-social support needs identified. The work with young people will be primarily hospital based, but you will also support some young people for longer term support in the community. You will engage with and support young people with their immediate needs and connect them with relevant community services for further support. Working in partnership with other professionals you will support young people’s holistic needs to enable long term improvement of healthy behaviours and opportunities to thrive.

To succeed in this role, you need to be proactive, a people person and passionate about supporting young people. You will have extensive experience working with young people who are vulnerable and have a wide range of needs, and a strong understanding of the support they need. You will ideally have a thorough understanding and knowledge of services for young people in Camden and Islington and other London boroughs and both community and local authority-based partners. Resilience, self- reflection and flexibility are all essential to this role and you will participate regularly in clinical supervision to broaden your practice and emotional literacy.

You must also be a skilled communicator: as comfortable building a relationship with a young person as you are liaising with our clinical colleagues in hospital and community-based partners. You’ll be keen to keep learning, seizing training opportunities at Redthread and continuously reflecting upon and improving your practice.

In return, the successful candidate will receive a competitive salary, a supportive and flexible working environment, excellent staff training and development package and access to a range of employee benefits including; enhanced annual leave and family leave entitlements, employer pension scheme contribution, access to clinical supervisions, enhanced employee assistance programme services and more.

As this role requires an NHS honorary contract, as well as Redthread benefits, you’ll also have unique access to generous NHS discount and blue light schemes too.

The offer of employment is conditional on satisfactory pre-employment checks which includes meeting any applicable legal vaccination requirements, unless medically exempt, as set by the CQC. Redthread is not a Home Office-licensed visa sponsor, evidence of the right to work in the UK will need to be provided at Interview stage.  

How to apply:

If this sounds like the right role and organisation for you, apply by following the link below. This will take you to our recruitment platform Applied, where you will be able to fill in a short application and upload a CV. To ensure we fairly assess applications, CV’s will not be reviewed initially. 


For a full Job description and person specification, please download the job pack from our website: https://www.redthread.org.uk/join-the-team/

  • Applications deadline: 10 am Wednesday, the the 6th of December 2023.

  • First-stage interviews will be online on Monday, the 11th of December, 2023.

  • Second-stage in-person interviews will be held at UCLH hospital on Friday, the 15th of December, 2023.

Please note: If we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the closing date. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Wed 6th Dec 2023

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Wed 6th Dec 2023