Thank you for considering a Senior Youth Intervention Practitioner 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.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic team member in our Birmingham Services primarily based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. you will support young people who are experiencing trauma or tragedy, and their families. You’ll work with them in the Emergency Department and on hospital wards, as well as supporting post discharge within the community. You will also deliver training to introduce Redthread and our local services, as well as awareness sessions for contextual safeguarding and exploitation.

Your role will be to take the primary lead in Birmingham Children’s Hospital (with cover at Queen Elizabeth and Heartlands Hospitals), holding and strengthening key relationships with clinicians, hospital safeguarding team and other key stakeholders. You will be responsible for the coaching and mentoring of the team, have line management responsibilities for a Youth Intervention Practitioner, and complete tasks delegated by the Team Leader / Regional Manager.

To do this well you need to be a people person; passionate about supporting young people, and excited at the prospect of working in a fast-paced and exceptionally busy environment. You’ll need a proven ability to work with high risk, vulnerable young people and an understanding of the impact intense, short term work can have. You must be a strong communicator: as comfortable building a relationship with a young person as you are liaising with our clinical colleagues. You’ll be keen to keep learning, seizing training opportunities at Redthread and continuously reflecting upon and improving your practice. You’ll have frontline leadership skills and experience.

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 access to enhanced employee assistance programme services, employer pension scheme contribution, enhanced annual leave and family leave entitlements and more. As this role requires an NHS honorary contract, as well as Redthread benefits, you’ll also have unique access to generous NHS discounts 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.

In this application pack you will find a job description with a person specification including details of the terms and conditions of the post. Please read through the person specification carefully as we will be shortlisting applications using these criteria.

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 online 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.

We will accept applications until 10 am on Friday 12th January 2024.

• Shortlisted candidates will be invited to take part in an online first stage interview with some of our team on Thursday 18th January 2024

• Successful candidates from this round will have an in person second stage interview on Monday 22nd January 2024

We would like this role to start as soon as possible. We will provide comprehensive training and induction. Please find below further details about the role and the work of Redthread, including a copy of the job description and person specification.