Children & Young People Wellbeing Advisor

Part Time Hours: 23 per week (evenings included)

Contract Type: Permanent

Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the advert will close upon successful appointment.

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people to improve their mental health, emotional wellbeing, and life opportunities?

About the role

Join ONSIDE and discover the role as a Children & Young People Wellbeing Advisor where you will make a meaningful impact in the lives of young people facing mental ill health and wellbeing challenges.

As a Children & Young People Wellbeing Advisor, you will deliver support to 11-18 year olds, helping them build resilience, confidence, and practical coping strategies.

Working as part of the Strong Young Minds Reaching Out programme, you will provide flexible, creative support across communities in Colwall & Ledbury, including one-to-one support, brief intervention approaches, group work and workshops.

You will support children and young people experiencing a range of challenges, including low level mental ill health and emotional wellbeing concerns, self harm and coping strategies, family conflict and relationship difficulties, school transitions and engagement, confidence, self esteem and resilience, employment, education or housing concerns.

This role is key to ensuring children and young people have access to the right wellbeing support at the right time.

Hours and Schedule

This vacancy is contracted for 23 hours to be worked as follows;

• Monday: 13:00-20:00 (7 hours)
• Tuesday: 16:45-19:00 (2 hours 15 minutes)
• Wednesday: 16:45-19:00 (2 hours 15 minutes)
• Thursday: 17:15-19:45 (2 hours 30 minutes)
• Friday: 13:00-20:00 (7 hours)

Total delivery time:22 hours

Remaining time:2 hours, which can be used for planning, administration flexibly across the week as required

Benefits

• Company Sick Pay Scheme (after qualifying service)
• Additional Maternity & Paternity Pay (after qualifying service)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to premium Calm App
• Employee Engagement Forum to ensure our employee's voices are heard!
• Supportive working environment & good work/life balance culture
• Support with continuous professional development

Who are we looking for?

We're looking for someone who is passionate about children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, and who can build trusting, supportive relationships.

You will have experience working with children and young people, ideally in a wellbeing, youth work or mental health setting and can demonstrate the ability to engage, motivate and inspire young people.

You will need to have a good understanding of the challenges linked to mental ill health, emotional wellbeing, and early intervention and be creative in your approach to deliver effective support.

Someone like you?

If you embrace difference and champion diversity.

If you are creative in your approach, can think around problems and find new ways to solve them.