Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Young Person's Navigator to join the Healthcare and Young Adults teams at HMP YOI Styal. You will be working directly to the Young Adult Health Coordinator, a senior nurse who will hold the case load for all young adults within the prison. At any one time there is approximately 50-60 young adults, on remand or sentenced, serving sentences from a few weeks to life imprisonment.
Targeting disadvantaged and vulnerable young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 to improve the health and social care of young female adults. The Navigator will work collaboratively with other professionals to ensure that this targeted group of young people are able to access the full range of health, social and welfare services according to individual needs and circumstances. Being a compassionate and expert 'friend' whose job it is to 'walk alongside' the complex young person at critical points in their journey of change encouraging them to make positive lifestyle choices and build foundations of a longer healthier lifespan.
Working through a trauma informed lens providing focused interventions aimed at assisting the young person to build resilience, gain confidence and acquire the personal and social assets they need to meet their aspirations.
Main duties of the job
This role will include working to develop excellent partnerships and networking with colleagues to:
- Engage clients with complex needs who are not currently engaged in appropriate services.
- Identify and co-ordinate the development of person-centred support plans.
- Support clients to engage effectively with appropriate services to meet their individual health needs and aspirations.
- Develop effective working relationships with key voluntary and statutory services to improve the response to young adults with multiple and complex needs.
- Assist vulnerable young adults to promote their own health and wellbeing through a self-help approach.
- Working intensively with clients to support them in their day to day lives and help develop wider connections in their health journeys.
Core Principles of the Pilot YA Service
The Young Adults co-design group made up from young adults and prison staff within HMP/YOI Styal have set five core principles for staff to apply when dealing with young adults. These principles encompass the approach just described and are defined from the young adult's perspective:
- Speak with me as the individual person that I am, in a decent and fair way
- Provide me with a voice by truly listening to me, then valuing what I say
- Bring transparency and a duty of care to our relationship and enable me to build trust with you.
About us
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We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!
- Access to NHS Pension
- Annual leave on your Birthday
- Welcome payment for some posts
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
- Flexible Working
- Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on working here at HMP Styal, please see attached job description/person specification and recruitment pack.
Person Specification
education
Essential
- Education and Training Requirement of NVQ Level 3 or equivalent and experience to diploma level or equivalent. Knowledge of health and social care.
- Experience of successfully delivering advice or support in a health, social care of offender service setting. Experience of working with and managing risk therapeutically.
Desirable
- Evidence of further knowledge and continuous professional development
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working in either commun or secure units using community development principles and practices to plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and wellbeing.
- Experience of partnership/multidisciplinary team working.
- Experience of working (employed or volunteer capacity) with young adults experiencing either homelessness, substance misuse, re-offending behaviour, domestic abuse or mental ill-health needs
- Awareness of lone working and personal safety. Expectation of managing own caseload and diary management and working on own initiative.
- Identification/awareness of when to raise concerns with Line Manager or wider services.
Desirable
- An understanding of issues relating to young adults with multiple and complex needs from a health and social care perspective.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to develop and maintain communication with a wide range partners about complex and sensitive matters and situations
- Ability to work effectively with colleagues and partners at different levels within a range of organisations.
- The ability to gather, analyse, evaluate, and report on a range of data and information using SystmOne.
- Experience of problem solving
- Demonstrate Standard keyboard skills and be IT literate (i.e. able to use Microsoft Office packages, including Word and Outlook).
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of chronically excluded and vulnerable young adults
- Knowledge of the range of services available for clients with multiple and complex needs
- Knowledge of relevant practice in relation to safeguarding vulnerable groups, including children
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely at all levels (both orally and in writing).
Desirable
- Knowledge of prison/community health and voluntary agencies and structures.
- Ability to adapt/employ different approaches for clients and professionals.
- Knowledge of causes and effects related to social inclusion and the barriers that can prevent access.
- Full driving licence and access to own transport.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Spectrum Community Health CIC
Address
HMP Styal
Wimslow
SK94HR