Resettlement Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves supporting vulnerable children and young people (CYP) aged 10-18 in a secure children's home, focusing on their resettlement journey. You will provide individual and group support, liaise with families, and help create positive leisure time activities. The position aims to promote constructive change and prevent relapse, using a child-first, trauma-informed approach. It requires working within a multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive healthcare and support.
Essential criteria
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent
- Satisfactory level of Secondary Education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent.
- Demonstrate a good standard of English and good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Desirable criteria
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Recovery college course qualification
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in secure care, residential care, CAMHS, youth justice or forensic settings
- Safeguarding legislation and guidance
- Relevant NHS and social care policies
- Knowledge of national agendas
- Good clinical reasoning skills
- Good communication skills
- Understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries
- Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent
- Satisfactory level of Secondary Education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent.
- Demonstrate a good standard of English and good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Recovery college course qualification
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in secure care, residential care, CAMHS, youth justice or forensic settings
- Safeguarding legislation and guidance
- Relevant NHS and social care policies
- Knowledge of national agendas
- Good clinical reasoning skills
- Good communication skills
- Understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries
- Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Resettlement Worker
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
Due to expansion, a rewarding opportunity has arisen where we are looking for a reliable, organised and enthusiastic person with a strong work ethic to join our multidisciplinary team in Children & Young People (CYP) Services for 37.5 hours per week, working at the new Millenium Lodge Secure Children's Home on the outskirts of Sleaford.
The team provide a full range of healthcare to vulnerable children and young people (CYP) aged between 10 and 18 who are resident in the secure children's home. Resettlement can present a challenge for CYP leaving the secure estate, with many CYP expressing significant anxiety regarding the transition process. There are a variety of factors that may make the transition difficult for both the young person and the destination they are transitioning to.
You will support a CYP through this journey by individual work, group work and liaison with families/carers. You will be integral to supporting constructive resettlement to promote change and prevent relapse. You will encourage and promote positive leisure time and create individual personal support plans with young people.
The principle of the child first and the offender second approach is used throughout the team alongside the trauma-informed delivery of care due to the
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