Youth Worker – Safe Haven; NEHF

Salary: Band C £26,167 to £28,410 (FTE, pro-rata for part-time) The starting pay rate is £13.56 per hour.

Hours: 8-9 hours per week (Monday and Thursday evenings until 8PM)

Role type: Permanent

Place of work: Royal Oak Wellbeing Hub, Yateley

Role Screening: Enhanced DBS – Child and Adult Barred List

Essential Driver? No, but must be able to travel to locations easily.

Closing Date: Monday, 26th October

Interview Date: W/C Monday, 26th October

Are you passionate about helping to make a difference to children and young people?

No Limits is the leading youth services charity in Southampton, supporting children and young people in the city and across Hampshire.

At No Limits, it is important our staff and volunteers reflect, represent, and have experience of the challenges faced by the children and young people we support. We are proud of and appreciate our many staff and volunteers who use their own lived experience to support the children and young people they work with.

With this in mind, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in all aspects of our work and organisational culture – and when recruiting, it’s important to us that we continue diversifying our staff and volunteer teams, with children and young people at the centre of everything we do. You can learn more about our DEI approach here.

When we talk about talent, we value the transferrable skills and experiences you can bring to No Limits, whether through work (in the same or a different sector), volunteering, or personal experiences. To make sure we get the best talent on our team, we are open to and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of the community, including diverse ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodiverse individuals.

As a Youth Worker within the Safe Haven Team, you will play a crucial role in supporting children and young people aged 11 to 17 years in North Hampshire who present in a self-defined crisis and need access to out-of-hours emotional and practical support. The children and young people accessing Safe Haven support present to the service when they feel their crisis has become unmanageable, and interventions are to support them to reduce the crisis in their life and the need for hospital attendance.

You will be providing in-person support, through 1-2-1 appointments and open access drop-in as part of a team of 3 staff. There will also be occasional promotional and preventative work in educational settings and community locations.

We are looking for someone who is committed to young people, reliable, organised, flexible, able to use their initiative and work within policies and procedures.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• To facilitate the running of quality youth work through physical and virtual spaces with a mental health and wellbeing focus
• Working across a range of youth work styles including open access drop-in sessions, outreach workand working with children and young people who have recently visited local emergency departments/walk in clinics
• To provide information and advice to parents and carers, partner agencies and community services
• Respond to young people presenting in a self-defined crisis, providing practical support and prompt safeguarding, with the aim of reducing the need for hospital attendance
• Work closely with our Emergency Department and Social Prescribing Youth Workers to coordinate ongoing support in the community after being supported by them in the ED
• Through a Youth, Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) model, address the wider practical and social issues that may be affecting a child or young person's mental health, such as relationships, health behaviours, sexual health, attendance,…