Youth Workers in Emergency Departments

NHS Hampshire and the Isle of Wight intend to commission No Limits to provide Emergency Department (ED) Youth Workers. Their core functions is to provide specialist youth work-based interventions, based on support needs at the time. The service equips young people with more skills and knowledge to look after and manage their mental health and address some of the wider personal and social factors that may have led to their attendance. The service connects young people into wider offers for brief interventions and longer-term support, including specialist services e.g. housing, substance misuse, debt advice, vulnerable groups as well as mental health support.