Do you love a challenge?

We have a great opportunity for the right candidate to be part of a partnership supporting young people who are discharged from acute hospital wards.

About the job

Employment type: Fixed Term - One Year

Hours of work: 18.5 hours per week

Salary: JNC unqualified scale pt 9 - 10, qualified scale pt 10 - 13 (£23,739.00 - £27,681.00 FTE)

Deadline for application: Sunday 16th April 2023

Interview Date: Monday 24th April 2023 - in the evening

Job Ref: DYS228

If you’d like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Simon Roberts on 0759063I9378

What is the role

• Support young people to identify their strengths and resources - setting personal goals and challenges

• Build and sustain positive relationships with young people and their families

• Working as a team to maintain the quality of the service and to engage in reflection with peers to ensure service development and improvement

• Flexible working pattern to meet the needs of young people and their families - including evenings and occasional weekends

• Work closely with colleagues from a range of organisations, including hospital staff and mental health services

About You:  

• Experienced youth worker or confident that you have the transferable skills required for the demands of the post

• Leadership and confidence

• Passion for supporting and advocating for the rights of young people

• Creativity and solution focused thinking

• Respectful with excellent empathy and kindness

• Ability to multitask, set priorities and reachout when you need help and support

• High commitment to continuous professional practice

• A reflective practitioner

• Space is an inclusive and learning organisation. Our employees should strive to achieve the best they can and must be committed to seeing the best in others

Space is continually striving to be an inclusive organisation. Equality, diversity and inclusion are threads that run through all our work, and should run through all our relationships with colleagues, partners and all those we work with.  We go beyond the approach described by the Equality Act 2010 and choose to take an anti-oppressive approach to our work and how we behave as an organisation.

We encourage applications for this role from all backgrounds in respect of ethnicity, age, disability, gender, sexuality, religion and socio-economic background.

What We Offer 

• Annual leave: 6 weeks for the first 5 years then 7 weeks after 5 years (pro-rata’d for part-time roles)

• Additional 3 Statutory days given between Christmas and new year plus bank holidays

• Pension contributions starting at 6% rising to 8% in the third year

• Employee assistance programme 24/7

• Casual dress code

• Social occasions

• Continuous Professional Development: Formal and informal training opportunities

• Enhanced sick pay

• Trained wellbeing champions available for a chat

• Chromebook and work mobile

• Value-driven culture

How to Apply

• Download and complete the supporting statement below.

• Return your completed supporting statement, along with your CV to recruitment@spacepsm.org Or post to: 100 Club, Wear Barton Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 7EH

• Interviews may be conducted by phone / video / online - method to be advised and dependent on the individual and Covid restrictions in force at interview date - details will be given at offer of interview

• Unless specified when sending through your completed application, we do not normally acknowledge receipt of applications