Job Details

To support and develop our celebrated and innovative Youth Board and to contribute to our aim of embedding a Children's Rights approach across the health board.

The post holder will arrange, chair and support youth board meetings.  Advocate for the youth board, facilitating their needs, opinions and requests for speakers and opportunities.  Work with the volunteer department to recruit new members and help ensure young people have a voice within the UHB recruitment processes.

•  To support the youth board to work with the population we serve, to gain valuable feedback about the services we provide.
• Working with the UHB Volunteering Team, ensure the Youth Board has access to required training, undertaking risk assessments and seeking senior support where necessary.
• Co-ordinate a programme of agenda items and co-ordinate input from other disciplines, to ensure the Youth Board cycle of meetings are delivered.
• Work in partnership with Noah’s Ark Charity and UHB Volunteering, signposting young people to relevant services, such as in the third sector, within own scope of competence and in accordance with SOPs.
• Establish effective communication, both verbal and written with all members of the Youth Board where CYP may be receiving care.
• Ensure that up to date activity data is maintained and reported in accordance with the service level agreement and UHB standards.
• Communicate with young people face to face, in group activities, by email, text and phone as suits the required need. This will include listening to and responding empathetically to sensitive issues raised by young people, signposting and/or escalating as necessary.
• Link with other Youth Board Forums, both in the NHS and across agencies, attending meetings and acting as a resource to other NHS institutions that are developing similar services.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where diversity is celebrated. We aim to create a working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential no matter their disability, sex, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity or marriage and civil partnership status. We are keen to break down barriers in the UHB, and encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.

Qualifications and Knowledge - Essential criteria

• Graduate Degree qualification or NVQ level 4 plus knowledge and experience to degree level

Desirable criteria

• Qualification in Psychology, Youth Studies, Counselling or a Social Science

Experience - Essential criteria

• Significant experience working with young people

Desirable criteria

• Working with young people in the NHS, experience of administering projects

Skills and Attributes - Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills, effective communication skills, good computer and organisational skills, good oral and written communication

Desirable criteria

• Ability to plan elements of a project, good minute taking skills, ability to make routine presentations, IT skills in statistical data analysis

Special Knowledge - Essential criteria

• Wide ranging understanding of issues affecting children and young people

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of young people's issues within Health Care in Wales