Young Women'S Worker - St George'S Hospital

Young Women's Worker - St George's Hospital Redthread, London, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

Redthread is a hospital based youth work service, working alongside NHS staff and other professionals in emergency departments.

Our experienced, specialist youth workers engage with and support young people, aiming to reduce serious youth violence and exploitation. We often meet young people at a moment of change and work with them to find a positive way forward.

We provide long-term, holistic support. We consider every aspect of a young person’s life and build support around them.

The Young Women’s Worker role is to be part of the youth work team within Redthread, whose primary focus is around providing youth violence interventions in a health care setting.

In this role you will be part of the Youth Violence Intervention team at St George's Hospital. You will support young women aged, 11-25 years old, who present to hospital following an incident of violence/sexual violence of for whom them there are concerns around exploitation (criminal and sexual) or extra-familial harm. You will work with the young women in the hospital as well as supporting them post discharge to ensure they have the support in place that they need and want.

The Young Women’s Worker provides long term, holistic support and can work with a young women for up to a year.

Please note:
We are only accepting applications from female applicants due to the nature of the role and that the post holder will only be working with young women.

Main responsibilities include:

• Holding a caseload of young women and to support them in a range of settings and support their personal, emotional, educational and health and social development through all interactions
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to safeguarding young women
• Ensure young women's details and case records are kept up to date on our case management system
• Support the delivery of training to clinicians

Qualifications

Key Skills and Qualifications are:

• Significant professional experience of working with vulnerable young people in a range of activities and settings
• Experience of working as an effective team member
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working autonomously
• A thorough knowledge and understanding of the physical, social and emotional developmental needs of young people and especially young women
• Understanding of the issues faced by young people living in inner city areas
• An awareness of child protection and safeguarding issues and knowledge of current best practice within the youth work sector
• A knowledge of best practice in case recording

When applying please be cautious over the answers you provide. If you select "NO" to the screening question regarding Right to Work in the UK, your application will automatically be closed.

Contract: Permanent

Hours & work pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week including regular weekend and evening working and shift patterns covering hours of 7:30am - 9pm.

Location: St George's Hospital

Important information for Applicants: We are only accepting applications from female applicants due to the nature of the role and that the post holder will only be working with young women.

Screening: Successful admission to post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have the right to work in the UK. Catch
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