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Children and Young People’s Mental & Emotional Health Support Worker

Children and Young People’s Mental & Emotional Health Support Worker
Organisation Recruiting: 
Just B (North Yorkshire Hospice Care)
Closing Date: 
Sunday, 18 February, 2024
Salary: 
£31,011.45 FTE (£15.86 per hour)
Contract Type: 
Permanent
Job Description: 

An exciting opportunity for a Children and Young people’s Support Worker to join our Just B services team, ensuring the provision of high-level Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health support for all our young People is available with a committed, skilled and multi-agency approach being implemented.

Key responsibilities will include providing one to one support to children and young people with different mental health needs, guiding their self-understanding and using a personalised approach to meet need. To work remotely within different school settings, effectively reporting to the line manager in a timely manner incidents and concerns involving safeguarding. Continuing their ongoing professional development, including regular contact meetings and appraisals.

In order to fulfil the requirements of this post, candidates will need to be qualified in, or working towards, Social Work, Counselling, Psychology or equivalent “other” with an appropriate professional registration. Experience of working with children and young people and families, providing psychological, emotional and or grief and loss support and working with safeguarding procedures is essential.

Various hours considered (Monday to Friday, term time only - 39 weeks)
Up to 3 roles available
Permanent
School Based (Harrogate/Richmond/Tadcaster Areas)
Closing Date: 18th February 2024.
Interviews will be arranged in Harrogate after the closing date.

Please fill in the application form in full via the link below. Any applications that leave the application form blank will not be considered.

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Benefits include: -
35 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays, pro-rata)
Comprehensive Induction Programme
Refer a friend bonus scheme
Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 8%
Lifestyle discounts and savings
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to staff support
Free group life assurance
Free DBS check
Free car parking at Crimple House location.

You will be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to the people of Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, and District.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies. All our staff and volunteers receive annual training on both adults and children/young people’s safeguarding. This impacts our recruitment processes and we have adopted a number of safer recruitment practices, which our HR and People team can talk through with you.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks being obtained including but not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. Costs of pre-employment checks will be met by the organisation.

North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a registered charity in England and Wales (518905) with a family of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’, Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Talking Spaces. North Yorkshire Hospice Care is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (2121179).

For more information on the role, please contact us on HR@saintmichaelshospice.org or on 01423 200145 and we can arrange for you to have an informal discussion.

Please be aware we reserve the right to close a vacancy early if a suitable candidate is identified.

Our Values at Work
North Yorkshire Hospice Care is clear about who we are, what we do and why we do it. It is our vision; mission and values that underpin this understanding and all three of these areas continue to evolve as we develop in response to the changing world around us.
We have re-examined our values with our stakeholders seeking to define a sense of who we are today. The result? A set of 10 values/behaviours that crystallize this thinking and act as a yardstick for our thinking and actions.
This shared set of values helps guide our decisions, actions and behaviours and is at the core of our collective aspiration to live in a community where everyone gets the care they need to live their last years, months and days with respect and dignity.
NB: This list is not exclusive or exhaustive but captures those values/behaviours currently at the top of our agenda.

Who we are
Just ‘B’ provides specialist emotional wellbeing and bereavement support to children, young people and adults across North Yorkshire and beyond, and is part of our family of services including Herriot Hospice Homecare and Saint Michael’s Hospice.

Some of our values:
We put people first
We are caring and compassionate
We are responsive
We are professional
We work collaboratively
We are accountable

Hours: 
Various hours considered (Monday to Friday, term time only - 39 weeks)
Location: 
North Yorkshire (Mobile working based at various schools out in Harrogate, Richmond & the Tadcaster Areas