Job Description
The Youth Violence Intervention Practitioner role is to be part of the youth work team within Redthread with a primary focus on youth violence interventions in a health care setting. In this role you will be part of the Youth Violence Intervention Programme team at St George's Hospital. You will support young people aged, 11-25 years old, who present to hospital following an incident of violence of for whom them there are concerns around exploitation or extra-familial farm. You will work with the young person in the hospital as well as supporting them post discharge to ensure they have the support in place that they need and want. Other tasks include:
1. Hold a caseload and work with young people in a range of settings, including in A&E and on the wards, in the community, in face-to-face and group contexts, and promote their personal, educational, health and social development through all interactions.
2. Assist with the on-going development of the service model to ensure that clients gain the maximum benefit from Redthread’s interventions.
3. Ensure information resources such as client forms, databases and contact files are kept fully up-to-date and secure, in line with GDPR, the Data Protection Act and our Confidentiality Policy and Consent Policy. Maintain high quality recording of interventions with young people on our database, Threads, in line with Redthread’s best-practice requirements. (Training will be provided.)
4. Collect and record evidence of project outcomes and young people’s achievements, to ensure the completion of monitoring forms and project progress reports as required.
5. Maintain a good level of knowledge of the issues around youth violence and Child Exploitation.
6. With guidance and support from the Team Leader, develop skills to further your work with the young people.
7. Under the direction of the Team Leader, develop an imaginative programme of events, activities and other interventions which support Catch22’s mission.
8. Actively research and network with other organisations working with young people in the area served by the hospital to ensure that the organisation as a whole has a good knowledge of other services and projects that may be of interest to the young people we work with or appropriate for us to refer to.
Qualifications
Experience:
Essential:
9. Significant professional experience of working with vulnerable young people in a range of activities and settings
10. Experience of working as an effective team member
11. Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
12. Experience of working autonomously
Knowledge:
Essential
13. A thorough knowledge and understanding of the physical, social and emotional developmental needs of young people
14. Understanding of the issues faced by young people living in inner city areas
15. An awareness of child protection and safeguarding issues and knowledge of current best practice within the youth work sector
16. A knowledge of best practice in case recording
Skills:
Essential
17. Resilient and reflective
18. Well-developed verbal and written communication skills and an ability to interact with both young people and adults on a one to one basis and in small groups, within a range of contexts
19. Ability to plan and manage own workload
20. Accurate data entry and record keeping and monitoring processes
21. Ability to use up to date IT systems
Qualifications:
Desirable:
22. A degree-level qualification in social work, youth work, a social science, education or another relevant field