Job Ref: 211677905

Date: 2020-11-25 08:47:24

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Youth Engagement Practitioner
Full-Time Contract (37.5 hours per week)
‘After school has finished, at weekends and during school holidays we want young people to be engaged and have fun in groups and activities.’
An opportunity has become available for the role of ‘Youth Engagement Practitioner’ to help us in delivering our agenda to increase more activities and engagement for the young people in our care. The role will work very closely with the CSU Nurses, Doctors, Senior Support Workers and Support Workers to achieve optimised patient engagement and involvement within the clinical areas. The focus of the role will be similar those defined with a ‘Youth Workers’ role.
Key areas of delivery
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Ensuring non clinical activities are operational throughout the CSU’s within core hours and out of hours working on the concept of a ‘25 hour timetable’
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Act as a Youth Worker for the CSU’s providing specialist support
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Working with the Hospital’s school to increase attendance and engagement
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121’s and key work with individual young people who require intensive support in terms of engagement
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Optimising and engaging with patients and staff to improve engagement
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Patient / Service User Involvement with CSU
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Arranging internal activity events as well as linking with external providers
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Assisting the care staff with engaging with young people during periods of observations
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Qualities
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Charismatic, friendly but disciplined in approach with engagement activities
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Empathic and responsible individual with proven ability to lead, motivate and manage young people on projects
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Good organisation and time management skills; able to prioritise workloads effectively, meet deadlines and monitor outcomes
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Full driving licence desirable
This is a full time role working 37.5 hours per week. The hours of work will generally be 12pm to 8pm and will include 1 day every other weekend.
Please take a look at our progressive and rewarding benefits package
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Maternity leave at 3 month’s full pay and 3 month’s half pay
• 2 week’s paid paternity leave
• Shared parental leave, matching the maternity leave benefit
• A thorough Induction Programme tailored to the hospital where you will be working
• Clear pay structure, with competitive rates
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Sick pay of 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay
• The opportunity to participate in a company contributory pension scheme with up to 3% matching contributions
• Death in service benefit equivalent to 2 x salary
• A range of staff discounts
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. This is a great opportunity for someone to make a difference.
For a more detailed job spec please take a look at our Website where you can also read some inspiring stories and find out why working at Huntercombe really sets us apart from the rest.
Huntercombe Group are one the leading specialist healthcare providers, with hospital and centres throughout England and Scotland, delivering wide ranging services in adult mental health and learning disabilities, specialist brain injury, child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) including eating disorders and social care for children with special needs.
Our aspiration is to nurture the world, one person at a time and that’s why everything we do is designed to provide the best care and recovery for our patients and residents.
We’re proud to have recruited some of the most experienced doctors, nurses and therapists in their fields and alongside our supportive stable Management structure we hope that it’s you that can help make a difference to our excellent teams and workforce

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