Young Persons Engagement Worker inPortsmouth inPortsmouth PUBLISHED
FRI 10 JAN 2025
Candidates should demonstrate empathy and strong documentation skills, with the flexibility to work both autonomously and collaboratively. The role primarily operates Monday to Friday, with potential for flexible scheduling. Interested applicants are encouraged to reach out for more information or to discuss any concerns regarding accessibility in the recruitment process.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our small team of Young Persons Engagement Workers to work across the A2i team and CAMH's services in Portsmouth.
The successful applicant will support young people aged between 16-25 who require additional support to aid engagement with Adult Mental Health services or accessing support networks in their local community upon discharge from CAMHS.
You will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary/multi agency team and demonstrate a good level of specialist skills and experience in supporting young people with mental health needs alongside multi-complex and at times long-standing difficulties.
The role was designed to support the young person to navigate the journey of transition and be able to work in a flexible and more assertive way, to support engagement with Adult mental health services. This may include but not exclusively to: transition from Child and Adolescent mental health services into secondary care mental health services, talking therapies, other community mental health services and community resources that will support the young person's recovery. You will have the ability to provide bespoke time limited recovery focussed interventions with the young person.
We are looking for an experienced support worker who is dedicated to making a difference to service users in the community. Candidates should be able to manage their own caseload effectively, able to make clear documentation whilst working autonomously in the community or in a team. You must be empathetic to others and able to effectively escalate risk.
The successful candidate must be available to work Monday to Friday 9-5 with some potential flexibility required.
Further details about this role can be found in the accompanying job description and person specification.
We recommend contacting us to find out more about this role. To find out more or to visit our team please contact Kirsty Popham on or
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Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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