Youth Development Worker – Renal at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
The closing date is 16 July 2026
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
The PEEER youth Service is a well established health-based youth work provision offering an expansive service to young people living with a long-term health condition across the Wessex Region.
We are recruiting an experienced youth worker to support young people living with a Kidney condition. This speciality is particularly varied, with young people from across the whole of the region accessing support as the local paediatric nephrology centre.
Young people living with a long-term health condition often face additional challenges and encounter difficult experiences whilst also missing out on many of the key events that inform and support their development as a young person. A youth worker is central to helping the young person navigate this journey and still find a way to reach their full potential and build on their aspirations.
The PEEER youth service prides itself on a youth-led approach involving young people in the development of new programmes and shaping services to meet recognised need. Youth workers will deliver online programmes, facilitate emotional wellbeing groups and lead community projects, alongside intensive 1 to 1 youth interventions to their allocated caseload either in person or virtually.
This role requires someone able to work both independently and within a team, applying the ethos of youth work within a health care setting, and ensuring young people remain central to their journey both in and out of hospital.
About us
University Hospital Southampton is one of England’s largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
Job responsibilities
- Provide support for young people 11 to 25 years living with a long-term kidney condition.
- Participate as a professional member of the healthcare team and contribute to the care of patients as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Act as a social prescribing link worker and enable access to local community services for recreational, social, educational and advocacy support where appropriate or on request of the young person.
- Contribute to the provision of a varied programme of activities and opportunities to engage young people, delivered flexibly in partnership with the wider PEEER Youth Service team.
- Play a central role in developing and delivering transition from Paediatrics to Adult health support, ensuring best practice guidance is observed with collaborative working between teams.
- Have a Professional Youth work Qualification/Youth Work related Degree or equivalent and relevant experience within Youth work.
- Experience of working within a health care setting is desirable but not essential.
- Role requires travel to accommodate young people’s needs and flexible hours with some evenings and weekends. This is a hybrid role with some working based at home, as well as community, clinical and hospital locations.
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
- Professional Youth work Qualification/Youth Work related Degree or equivalent and relevant experience within Youth work.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Significant experience working with young people.
- Good understanding of health issues relating to young people.
- Good understanding of social needs of young people.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to child protection and cultural and diversity awareness.
- Knowledge of issues relating to consent and confidentiality.
- Knowledge of issues relating to adolescent care.
- Understanding of social issues surrounding young people with life-changing illness.
- Ability to support young people within a clinical environment, occasionally when undergoing treatments and medical procedures.
- Experience working with young people in a hospital or health care setting.
- Experience accessing community support services.
- Knowledge of local authority policies and procedures.
- Ability to present to/facilitate a group.
Trust Values
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
£32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum or pro rata per annum
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