Protect Life Keyworker, Southern HSCT (30 hours)

Information on the experience and qualifications required for the post are outlined in the application pack.

Salary: NJC Points 28 – 31 (£24,964 - £27,668) plus environmental allowance

Base: Lurgan

Probation: You will serve a probationary period of six months.  This may be extended if considered appropriate

Hours: Part-time (30 hours per week)

Contract: Fixed-term until January 2019

Background to the Project

Start360 mentoring interventions and support are designed to support vulnerable young people who present with issues around mental health wellbeing, anxiety, self-harm, despair, and/or suicidal ideation.  Start360's Protect Life crisis mentoring offers interventions, care, and support plans tailored to meet individual service user needs. Support plans are designed to assess and contain identified risk, build confidence, and encourage positive lifestyle choices and appropriate protective factors.  This creates a healthy relationship in which service users can be supported and risks managed.

The services offered by Protect Life include:

• Immediate complimentary therapeutic support post-assessment.

• Core harm reduction.

• Risk management.

• Empower service users to take personal responsibility for their actions.

• Acknowledge issues and barriers to progression.

• Support for service users through agreed action, care and support plans.

• Immediate continued reassessment and support for those service users who move into the process of relapse post-support and exit.