Part-Time Mind the Gap Emotional Health Worker
Job Description
- Location: Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Earnings: £24,485 per annum, pro rata
Part-time (15 hours per week) / Fixed-term until 30 September 2023, with a view to extend from September onwards / Job description and job pack (including details on employee benefits) are available to download from our website
The YAC (Youth Advice Centre) in Crawley offers information, advice, guidance, counselling, and targeted youth services for young people aged 11-25 from Crawley and surrounding areas. The dynamic team is made up of a wide range of professionals, including emotional health workers, counsellors, and youth support workers; all our work is young-person-centred and young-person directed. Our aim is to provide young people with a safe, friendly, inclusive, and welcoming environment where they can access helpful support and advice.
The Mind the Gap Worker will deliver a swift response to the emotional and mental health needs of 11–25-year-olds living in Crawley and surrounding areas, through face-to-face and virtually delivered support. The service aims to offer support to young people who are falling between the gaps in other services, using a youth-work approach to support young people to engage. The post holder will use a broad range of evidence-based interventions to engage and educate young people around a wide variety of issues affecting their emotional wellbeing. You will develop and maintain links with other agencies and make referrals to internal and external organisations. This will include liaising with appropriate statutory and voluntary sector agencies working in Education, Public & Mental Health and Social Care & Early Help, in order to build up appropriate networks that promote a rapid response into support for young people.
The post holder will offer preventative work, crisis support and assistance with transitions & onward referrals, using a social prescribing approach to identify ongoing support.
You will be based on site at Crawley YAC, working on Wednesdays and Fridays, 10am – 6pm.
WHO YOU ARE – We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything we have described below, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable youth worker, who is passionate about working with young people at risk who are falling between the gaps in service offers. You will have previous experience of delivering face to face emotional wellbeing case work, coaching and carrying out of assessments with young people, including working with high risk & complex issues. You should be prepared to provide support through creative and flexible methods of delivery in response to the needs of the young people, which may include face-to-face 1:1 sessions, walk-and-talks and virtual delivery.
You will already be trained in a wide range of evidence-based emotional wellbeing interventions or have a post-graduate level qualification in counselling or equivalent qualification. You will have a good knowledge of the issues facing young people and an understanding of how to engage young people from socially excluded groups or underserved communities.
How to Apply
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