Mental Health Youth Worker - Brent Young People THRIVE (YPT)

  • CB Plus
  • Mar 12, 2026
Full time Education

Job Description

Are you passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of young people? Do you believe in early intervention, empowerment, and community based support? If so, we d love to hear from you.

Brent is launching an exciting opportunity for a Young People THRIVE Mental Health Youth Worker, supporting Children and Young People (CYP) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

About the Role

As a Brent YPT Mental Health Youth Worker, you will play a key part in delivering evidence based interventions, including mentoring, resilience building, and self esteem programmes. You ll be working at the heart of a collaborative multi agency system partnering with CNWL CAMHS and local services to ensure CYP receive the right support at the right time. This role is ideal for someone who is youth centred, creative in their approach, and committed to helping prevent escalation of mental health difficulties.

What You ll Do - Deliver structured interventions that build resilience, emotional wellbeing, and self esteem. - Support CYP in navigating and accessing appropriate services following triage. - Work closely with CAMHS and other partners, contributing to triage discussions and multi agency panels. - Facilitate youth peer support groups and wellbeing circles covering topics like stress, bullying, school pressures, and emotional wellbeing. - Offer information, guidance, and signposting to digital wellbeing tools, local services, and parent/carer resources. - Provide parents/carers with access to workshops, coaching, and practical tools to support emotional wellbeing at home. - Collect and share anonymised data to support service evaluation and continuous improvement.

What You ll Achieve Your work will help ensure children and young people experience:

- Improved mental health and emotional wellbeing through early intervention support.

- Timely access to help without long waits for support.

- A voice in their care, through collaborative, shared decision-making.

- Reduced escalation to specialist services and fewer crises.

- Improved daily functioning at school, in relationships, and at home.

- A positive experience of mental health support that feels timely, respectful, and person centred.

Who We re Looking For Someone who is:

- Passionate about youth wellbeing

- Skilled at building trust with young people

- Confident facilitating groups and delivering interventions

- Comfortable working collaboratively across services - Organised, with strong data quality and digital skills

What we offer:

  • Generous annual leave entitlement - 28 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
  • Flexible and hybrid working (dependent on role) to ensure you enjoy a good work-life balance.
  • Christmas office closure
  • Enhanced Sick Pay
  • Pension scheme 5% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Promoting a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

At CB Plus, we promote a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can all be ourselves. Everyone is treated fairly, individual differences are celebrated, and all employees are valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from disabled applicants, including those with mental health conditions, people from Global Majority and minoritised communities, and those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the Disability Confident Scheme. However, in the event of a high number of applicants, it may not be possible to interview all candidates who meet these criteria, and we reserve the right to limit interviews to a manageable number.

We also have experience supporting Access to Work applications to ensure that employees who need adjustments have the support they need to feel confident and do their best in their roles.

If you need adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.

Please see job description for further details about the role