Low Intensity Therapist / Specialist Youth Practitioner

Job Description
Low Intensity Therapist/Specialist Youth Practitioner
£37,725 - £40,614

NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) London Health and Justice Team and NHSEI London Violence Reduction Programme selected the North East London Integrated Care system (NEL ICS), alongside two others in London, to develop and mobilise a model of care for children and young people aged up to the age of 25 years old. The London Vanguard’s overarching vision is to facilitate trauma-informed systems and multiagency working which enables vulnerable children and young people affected by violence to thrive.

These Children and Young people have complex unmet needs and associated levels of high risk, high harm behaviours and vulnerability and often find themselves in the justice, secure, inpatient mental health and Looked after Children pathways. The service will aim to:

• Improve the lives of young people, their families, and communities
• Put children and young people and their parents/carers at the heart of the care and support delivered by services
• Encourage collaborative working across services to improve children and young people’s access to and engagement with psychosocial and psychological support.
• Address inequalities in communities
• Facilitate trauma-informed systems and multiagency working which enables vulnerable children and young people affected by violence to thrive

The Vanguard will build on existing services and infrastructures in the community - plugging gaps in expertise and capacity as required – and enabling existing partners to work more collaboratively and engage new partners. This will involve understanding ways of working alongside young people to develop solutions that address the underlying social, cultural, and emotional issues shaping serious youth violence and exploitation.

Children and young people are at the heart of this programme. From the inception of our various strategies which focus tackling adolescent exploitation and violence, children and young people’s views, experiences and opinions have helped shape the plans we put in place, as well as increasingly, the support they receive and our systems change work and priorities. Children and young people up to the age of 25, as well as their parents and foster carers will help shape our Vanguard programme at different levels, and over the course of the 3-year programme, will focus our participation work on young people leading and influencing this agenda more powerfully.

The programme works regionally across Newham and Waltham Forest and will be delivered by a dedicated multi-disciplinary response team, which will be integrated into current service provision.

Please provide a covering letterof no more than 2 pages and your CV in order to apply for this role. Deadline for all applications is 12.59pm 30th June 2023.

We actively encourage applications from people with personal experience of the issues facing this client group. If you would like to have an informal discussion about your experience and suitability for this role, please contact: Hannah Stringer (Clinical Lead) hannah.stringer3@nhs.net or Rebecca Stanley (Operations Lead)rebeccastanley@nhs.net

Job Description: https://www.newham.gov.uk/downloads/file/6073/low-intensity-therapist-specialist-youth-practitioner

Additional Information

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