Job Title: Mental Health Support Worker – Youth in Mind
Hours: Monday-Sunday evenings, standard working hours 3:15pm-7:45pm, with opportunity to cover additional shifts throughout the week. Six-month fixed term contract.
Salary: £12.70 per hour
Location: Warrington (Dallam Lane)
The Youth In Mind mental health support worker will be key in supporting the Targeted Team in delivering an effective, structured wellbeing programme to children and young people from across Warrington.
The successful candidate will be responsible for working on our Youth In Mind programme, offering 1:1 wellbeing sessions to young people requiring a high level of support as part of a drop-in service. The role will be required to triage young people’s needs in order to signpost them to an appropriate service, either internally within the Youth Zone or to an external provider.
The service is commissioned by Cheshire & Merseyside NHS as part of ‘Warrington Place’ Starting Well plans to support ‘Children and Young Peoples Emotional and Mental Health & Wellbeing’. The project delivery is a partnership between Warrington Youth Zone and Merseycare ‘Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services’ (CAMHS).
What Success Will Look Like
To manage and ‘triage’ the needs of the young people requiring 1:1 support for their emotional health.
To provide a safe space where young people can talk openly about their mental health free from stigma and judgement.
To empower and encourage young people to access both internal and external support for their emotional health
To enable conversations through listening, helping young people to access support and information, and exploring effective ways of improving wellbeing.