Emotional Health& Wellbeing Worker, Safe Zones

Key Focus

• Delivery of effective brief intervention support with young people who have experienced a mental health crisis at the Bury Safe Zone service.
• Delivery of effective 1:1 emotional health and wellbeing support with children and young people with emotional health and wellbeing needs across the community and education settings.
• Offering crisis resolution, safety planning and Thrive aligned care planning with young people, their parents and carers.
• Using a combination of 1:1 support and group work, the post holder will offer de-escalation support, integrated emotional health and wellbeing interventions, solution-focused and resilience building work with children and young people across Bury as part of the CYPMH pathway.
• You will be a worker who is accountable and responsible within their own practice.
• You will make use of the strong support network this role offers.
• You will work at depth and support your colleagues to do the same as opportunities arise.
• You will be driven to offer an excellent service for all you encounter within the context of the role.
• You will be committed to ever improving your delivery and you will inspire others through your own success in the role.
• Offering a range of individualised support to young people with presenting emotional health and wellbeing needs and offer them advice, signposting, appropriate interventions and support them to access the wider CYPMH provision, Early Break core services or other service provisions.
• The role includes ‘meet and greet’ duties into the safe zones, providing care and crisis intervention.
• Delivering therapeutic support in line with the therapy framework outlined with the Greater Manchester mental health crisis pathway.
• This will include supporting young people to access self-help and support systems in the community contributing to individualised care-plans and packages.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary substance-use and emotional health and wellbeing team alongside to support emotional wellbeing of children and young people.
• Work within an innovative, partnership-led mental health provision alongside partners from our VCSE sector, supporting children and young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.
• Formulating and implementing intervention plans with young people and partners.
• Deliver de-escalation and resilience building, solution focused, integrated emotional health and wellbeing and mental health support to children and young people.
• Support and encourage young people to take on board safety messages as regards risk taking behaviour and own vulnerability including self-injury, substance use, offending behaviour, CSE, CCE and other utilising a trauma-informed approach.
• Prepare, plan and deliver education sessions and group work to young people in education settings or the community as per presenting need.
• Adhere to Early Break policies on Safeguarding including identification and referral, as well as participating in any subsequent action in relation to these.
• Work with a range of partners in ensuring seamless access to support for children and young people.
• Maintain and update levels of knowledge and understanding of issues relevant to young people’s lives through reading, eLearning and training offered by Early Break and other agencies, as opportunities arise.
• Ensure all necessary administration/sessional recordings are complete, including maintenance of Nebula or other agreed database.
• Recognise the role may operate outside 9-5 hours to meet needs of young people including propensity for some agreed evening and weekend work.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the work of the role and the Service.
• Implement Service Health and Safety Policy/Service Guidelines including risk assessments.
• Attend relevant internal and external meetings supportive to the role.
• Engage in professional development opportunities and training as required/appropriate.
• Have an understanding of and the ability to maintain confidentiality.

Employee Benefits

• Long Service Leave: an additional 4 weeks paid holiday after every 3 years in service (subject to attendance thresholds).
• Supervision: 10 sessions per 12 months with an external supervisor to facilitate reflective practice.
• Wellbeing Day: 2 half-days of additional paid leave every 12 months as a ‘wellbeing day’ for staff.
• Volunteer Day: 1 day additional paid leave every 12 months as a ‘volunteer’ opportunity with another third sector organisation of your choice.
• Job Share Option: Yes