Youth Worker Complication of Excess Weight Service (CEW) inManchester inManchester PUBLISHED WED 22 JAN 2025

The Youth Service at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is based at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (RMCH). NHS England recently commissioned several regional centres throughout England to develop a national service to provide specialised treatment to Children and Young People with Complications from Excess Weight (CEW).

In the Northwest of England, we have developed a twin hub and spoke model for running these services. The Manchester hub will be based at RMCH, with a twin hub located at Alderhey Children’s Hospital forming a unique partnership flagship service for children and young people who are at the most severe end of the spectrum of unhealthy overweight. An enhanced spoke will be located at Royal Preston Hospital thus covering the population from Lancashire and South Cumbria, Cheshire and Mersey side and Greater Manchester.

RMCH are therefore looking to recruit a Youth Worker to join our new and exciting service. This post involves working within healthcare and community based settings, and linking in with families, school health, local healthcare partners, primary care and social care.

The Youth Worker will be supporting young people with a focus on the young person's social and well-being needs whilst they are cared for as in-patients, out-patients and within the wider community.

The Youth Worker will work alongside and in collaboration with the young person’s multi-disciplinary team members such as specialist nurse, dietician, physiotherapist and clinical psychologist. Youth worker will plan and deliver training to staff in hospital and community settings. They will also provide holistic advice and care to the young person with particular emphasis on linking into community based services and facilities to help deliver healthy living possibilities closer to home.

The Youth Worker will deliver this work through one to one, group work, peer support and youth work sessions within either the children’s services, MFT community and hospital settings.

The role requires a Youth Work Diploma or equivalent in youth work, psychology, or social sciences (Dip HE/JNC ) with a minimum of two years’ experience, working with young people aged 11- 25 years in an hospital/ healthcare setting. Crucially, you must be self-motivated, can use your own initiative and be responsive to the needs of the young person in a health setting.

The position is 37.5 hour a week 12 months fixed term contract, with potential for future funding. The role involves day, evening, and weekend work.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathryn Stanton Job title: Matron CSUMed 1 Email address: Telephone number: Senior Youth Worker