Youth Worker – Emergency Department Social Prescriber; EDSP

Role Terms

• Salary:
  Band D £27,215 to £30,173 (FTE, pro-rata for part-time)
• Hours:
  
  19-25 hours per week, Monday-Friday (days/times are negotiable)
• Role type:
  Permanent
• Place of work:
  University Hospital (Southampton), Royal County Hampshire Hospital (Winchester) and community locations across Southampton and Winchester
• Role Screening:
  Enhanced DBS – Child and Adult Barred List
• Closing Date: 9am, Thursday 8th of January 2026 (We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received)
• Interview Date:
  Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th January 2026

Job Description

Applicant Form

✨ Are you passionate about helping to make a difference to children and young people? We're lookingforan experienced and enthusiastic Youth Worker to join us at No Limits, who are the leading youth services charity in Southampton, supporting children and young people in the city and across Hampshire. The No Limits Emergency Department and Social Prescribing team, work across seven main hospitals in Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Basingstoke, The Isle of Wight, Bournemouth and Poole and we are currently looking for a Youth Worker to join the Southampton and Winchester team.✨

Our growing team of Youth Workers are caring, collaborative and courageous professionals, committed to empowering children and young people to achieve positive changes in their lives. Our unique service delivery model aims to support all children and young people. The ED Youth Workers have been working with the ‘reachable moment’ when a young person attends ED in crisis, whether that is through violent crime or mental health crisis to help them to start thinking about change.

The successful applicant will provide direct support to children and young people, both in the emergency department and in the community. By helping the young person to connect with specialist support and other community services through Social Prescribing. To apply for this post, you must have a passion for supporting children and young people, be a strong communicator and have experience of working with 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 - Emergency Department Social Prescriber (EDSP), you will provide information, advice, and guidance to children, young people and their families admitted to the emergency department through to their discharge back into the community where social prescribing will be optimised to help the young person connect with community support.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Engage and build relationships with any children and young people who have come into the Emergency Department (ED) and may need advice and support to avoid further admissions.
• Work with the young person’s presence in ED as a ‘reachable moment’, providing appropriate support around the issues that have brought them to ED. This may include mental health, self-harm, overdose, substance misuse, being a perpetrator or…