NHSJobs.com

Job overview

The team provide a full range of healthcare to vulnerable children and young people (CYP) aged between 10 and 18 who are resident in the secure children home.

Resettlement can present a challenge for CYP leaving the secure estate, with many CYP expressing significant anxiety regarding the transition process. There are a variety of factors that may make the transition difficult for both the young person and the destination they are transitioning to.

You will support a CYP through this journey, by individual work, group work and liaison with families/carers. They will be integral to supporting constructive resettlement to promote change and prevent relapse.

You will encourage and promote positive leisure time and create individual personal support plans with young people. The principle of the child first and the offender second approach is used throughout the team alongside the trauma informed delivery of care due to the CYP having often experienced many adverse childhood events and trauma.

You will provide professional advice and support to other teams, agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team and work flexibly between 9am and 9pm, including some weekends and bank holidays.

The team are committed to professional development and provide many training opportunities to allow staff to develop a wide range of skills

Main duties of the job

• To offer children and young people (CYP) and their families/carers, within 150-mile radius a bespoke package of support starting at least three months prior to leaving LSU, but ideally within 6 months prior to leaving and for the first six months of a CYP’s community experience post custody.
• To deliver care planning and individual and group interventions, in partnership with CYP and other workers involved in care delivery, under the supervision of the Band 7 post holder.
• Direct work with Family – using the Signs of Safety Model (Lincolnshire is accredited in this approach).
• Direct work with CYP within LSU preparing them for leaving custody with set targets.
• To build up support networks available pre discharge through Local Authority, voluntary Sector, family, local activity centres and appropriate educational facilities.
• To work in accordance with relevant childcare and health legislation and professional standards.
• To proactively involve CYP and families/carers in service development and evaluation.
• To function as part of the multidisciplinary LSU service.
• To support the provision of a professional, non-stigmatising, trauma informed service to CYP and families/carers.
• Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external age.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.