Emotional Health & Wellbeing Worker, #Thrive

Key Focus

Delivery of effective 1:1 emotional health and wellbeing support with young people aged 5-18 presenting with emotional health and wellbeing needs across the community and education settings.

Key Deliverables

• Offering a range of individualised support to young people with presenting emotional health and wellbeing needs and offer them appropriate interventions and/or support them into the wider CYPMH provision, Early Break core services or other service provisions.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 database.
• 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