Youth Support Worker - CAMHS Community Crisis Care | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	18 Awst 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£27,485 - £30,162 per annum (pro rata)
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	17 Medi 2025
Lleoliad:	Manchester, M23 9XD
Cwmni:	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7370102/349-MCH-7370102

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We are excited to offer an opportunity for a motivatedBand 4 Youth Support Workerto join our innovative Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)CommunityCrisis CareService. In this vital role, you will provide practical and emotional support to young people experiencing acute mental health crises, helping them navigate challenges and build resilience.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people and their families. You will be part of a forward-thinking, compassionate, and ever-expanding team dedicated to improving outcomes for young people through person-centered care and tailored interventions.

As a valued member of our team, you will play a crucial role in supporting young people in crisis, helping them develop coping strategies, regain independence, and work towards recovery. You will also collaborate with other professionals to ensure holistic, needs-led support.

As part of ourCAMHS Crisis Careservice, you’ll gain invaluable experience, enhance your skills, and contribute to the development of innovative approaches to youth mental health care.

• Provideemotional and practical supportto young people experiencing crisis, ensuring they feel safe, heard, and empowered during distressing times.
• Assist inassessmentsunder professional guidance, identifying the young person’s strengths, challenges, and support needs to inform tailored interventions.
• Facilitate therapeutic activitiesacross home, community, and clinical settings, promoting engagement in self-care, education, social interactions, and meaningful activities that support recovery.
• Offerhands-on supportto young people and families, helping them navigate daily challenges, reduce isolation, and prevent crisis escalation.
• Work collaboratively within amultidisciplinary team, including nurses, social workers, assistant psychologists, and other professionals, ensuring a joined-up, holistic approach to care.
• Maintain accurate records, monitor progress, and provide feedback to inform ongoing care planning and intervention strategies.
• Support young people throughtransitions and discharge planning, assisting their reintegration into school, home, and community life post-crisis.
• As part of theCAMHS Crisis Careservice, provideintensive short-term support, focusing onrecovery-oriented care plansthat promote resilience and reduce the likelihood of future crises.

This role involvesdirect engagement in emergency, community, and home settings, ensuring flexible, responsive support tailored to each young person’s needs.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!


This advert closes on Monday 1 Sep 2025

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