Community Workers - Children and Young People’s Mental Health

Purpose of the Job 

Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind have secured funding from the National Lottery Community Fund to deliver a new outreach programme, designed to increase awareness and access to mental health support for children, young people (CYP) and families from underserved communities, children who may not be in school, or who may not be able to travel to use our services. Utilising your skills in engaging young people where they are, these roles are a key part of ensuring our work supports any young people who need our services.

Job Summary

The role includes:

• Delivering direct outreach with young people to raise awareness of mental health support and pathways.
• Providing detached mental health services within the community to address challenges in a non-clinical environment.
• Using your skills to develop engaging resources that increase awareness and understanding of youth mental health issues, and adapt them to different languages and local communities.
• Work alongside our Parental Engagement Practitioner to deliver with community groups and partner agencies, raising awareness throughout diverse communities across our boroughs.
• Create and manage partnerships with local community groups for the purposes of raising awareness and increasing access.
   

Key Responsibilities

• Work with your team to develop children and young people’s outreach provision offered by HFEH Mind, using creative approaches to engage CYP.
• Help CYP and parents to overcome logistical challenges to accessing support.
• Work in partnership with community organisations to work with underserved groups including boys and young people from minority ethnic backgrounds.
• Offer direct outreach support to young people who have been excluded from school or with emotionally based school avoidance.
• Participate in a mapping exercise of local communities, languages and knowledge of mental health.
• Use trauma informed approaches (e.g., ARC, Tree of Life) to support children, young people and their parents and carers.
• Signpost anyone accessing the provision to appropriate and local on-going support; and build up your knowledge and networks of such support.
• Deliver interventions in community settings and at our Circle site.
• Meet the KPIs and outcomes of our Lottery funding.
• Work alongside our young advisors and parental support group to ensure new ideas for engagement are co-produced
• Understand and implement safeguarding procedures, and be familiar with safeguarding law, and how it applies to our work.
• Document work done on our database, and ensure that service user feedback can be recorded, and can provide evidence of our effectiveness.

You will have:

• Experience of working with children and young people and parents, with an understanding of mental health.

• A person-centred approach to work.

• Demonstrable commitment, knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into your work.
• A creative outlook on work, and ability to develop new ideas.
• The ability to engage with children, young people and parents and carers who may not have accessed any previous mental health support.

Hours for this role:

• 12pm - 8pm 

• Some weekends and later evenings 

    

Please see full list of requirements for the role in JD.

Benefits of working with us

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year, increasing by 1 day per full year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) [pro rata].
• Employee Rewards and Benefits Platform/Wellness Hub (Perkbox)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including free counselling sessions
• Paid time off for medical appointments
• Training and personal development opportunities
• Access to shared resources and training opportunities via Mind Federated Network

How to apply

Please provide your CV, and a cover letter demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the Person Specification (see JD attached) and why you want this role.  

We are an equal opportunities employer; and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

HFEH Mind are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.