Community Engagement Worker – youth focused
| Posting date: | 15 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Blue Sky Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
You’ll be joining our team at an exciting time, as we expand our community and youth services across the North East.
We currently reach over 4,000 young people each year through our relationships and sexual health education in schools. Now, we’re building on that success by developing a wider out-of-school offer—and we’re looking for friendly, approachable, and non-judgemental team members to help us take this next step.
You'll play a key role in delivering relationships, sexual health & wellbeing sessions to young people in spaces where they already meet and feel safe, including in youth groups, community spaces and schools and with our HIV members. Topics include sexual health, contraception, body image and self-esteem, online harms and pornography, healthy relationships and consent. This will be delivered through one-to-one sessions, group work, school-based programs, or community outreach. The goal is to empower young people to make informed decisions, reduce stigma around sexual health, and promote safe, respectful, and confident attitudes toward sex and relationships.
You will also have opportunities to work across Blue Sky Trust projects: increasing awareness with adults in the community through training and events, supporting the delivery of peer support groups for people living with HIV and so on.
Your enthusiasm, creativity, and ability to connect with young people will help support our growing service.
The role is based in Newcastle, although some home working will be possible. The post holder should be a confident car driver with regular access to a car and the confidence to drive to locations across the North East.
About Blue Sky Trust
Blue Sky Trust is a sexual health and wellbeing charity with a specialism in HIV.
Our work includes:
• Sexual Health & Wellbeing Project – aims to improve the relationships and sexual health of young people and the wider community. This includes delivering high-quality, curriculum-aligned RSHE (Relationships, Sex and Health Education) in schools, as well as providing youth work in community settings. We’re expanding our reach beyond the classroom, working directly within communities—particularly with marginalised and higher-risk groups—to increase knowledge around HIV and sexual health, reduce stigma, and promote testing and prevention. This growing strand of our work is rooted in inclusion, accessibility, and trust. By meeting young people at-risk communities where they are, we’re building safer, healthier futures through education, empowerment, and early intervention.
• HIV Project - Blue Sky Trust has been supporting and connecting people living with HIV at every step of their journey for 32 years. We provide advocacy and support, peer support and programs that help people to live well with HIV. A key focus for Blue Sky Trust is to tackle HIV stigma in the community and we work at a strategic level with partners across the region and nationally to eliminate HIV stigma in our society.
• Professional and Volunteer development – we deliver HIV Awareness training and relationships and sexual health training to professionals to enhance their practice. We also have a thriving team of 20 volunteers (most of whom are living with HIV) who help across all our projects – they give over 1500 hours to Blue Sky Trust every year!
Salary:
£23,900 per annum pro rata
Work Pattern:
25-37 hours: negotiable – depending on knowledge, skills & experience to work across projects.
School hours (8:45-4pm) with regular evening and weekend work. Working pattern negotiable.
Benefits:
Workplace pension (NEST)
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)
Office Base:
Castlegate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle, NE1 2JQ
Some home working allowed.
Work is delivered across the North East region therefore regular access to a car is essential
Contract length:
Permanent
Closing Date for applications: 5pm, 10th August 2025
Informal Visit: If you are shortlisted, you will have the opportunity to attend Blue Sky Trust between 2-4pm, Friday 15th August where you can meet the team and hear more about our work.
Interviews: 19th August 2025
Start date: Flexible from 1st September 2025
Blue Sky Trust has a Christian ethos.
www.blueskytrust.org – Please note, our website is undergoing maintenance and does not fully represent the work that we do.
To apply, visit www.blueskytrust.org
CVs not accepted.
We currently reach over 4,000 young people each year through our relationships and sexual health education in schools. Now, we’re building on that success by developing a wider out-of-school offer—and we’re looking for friendly, approachable, and non-judgemental team members to help us take this next step.
You'll play a key role in delivering relationships, sexual health & wellbeing sessions to young people in spaces where they already meet and feel safe, including in youth groups, community spaces and schools and with our HIV members. Topics include sexual health, contraception, body image and self-esteem, online harms and pornography, healthy relationships and consent. This will be delivered through one-to-one sessions, group work, school-based programs, or community outreach. The goal is to empower young people to make informed decisions, reduce stigma around sexual health, and promote safe, respectful, and confident attitudes toward sex and relationships.
You will also have opportunities to work across Blue Sky Trust projects: increasing awareness with adults in the community through training and events, supporting the delivery of peer support groups for people living with HIV and so on.
Your enthusiasm, creativity, and ability to connect with young people will help support our growing service.
The role is based in Newcastle, although some home working will be possible. The post holder should be a confident car driver with regular access to a car and the confidence to drive to locations across the North East.
About Blue Sky Trust
Blue Sky Trust is a sexual health and wellbeing charity with a specialism in HIV.
Our work includes:
• Sexual Health & Wellbeing Project – aims to improve the relationships and sexual health of young people and the wider community. This includes delivering high-quality, curriculum-aligned RSHE (Relationships, Sex and Health Education) in schools, as well as providing youth work in community settings. We’re expanding our reach beyond the classroom, working directly within communities—particularly with marginalised and higher-risk groups—to increase knowledge around HIV and sexual health, reduce stigma, and promote testing and prevention. This growing strand of our work is rooted in inclusion, accessibility, and trust. By meeting young people at-risk communities where they are, we’re building safer, healthier futures through education, empowerment, and early intervention.
• HIV Project - Blue Sky Trust has been supporting and connecting people living with HIV at every step of their journey for 32 years. We provide advocacy and support, peer support and programs that help people to live well with HIV. A key focus for Blue Sky Trust is to tackle HIV stigma in the community and we work at a strategic level with partners across the region and nationally to eliminate HIV stigma in our society.
• Professional and Volunteer development – we deliver HIV Awareness training and relationships and sexual health training to professionals to enhance their practice. We also have a thriving team of 20 volunteers (most of whom are living with HIV) who help across all our projects – they give over 1500 hours to Blue Sky Trust every year!
Salary:
£23,900 per annum pro rata
Work Pattern:
25-37 hours: negotiable – depending on knowledge, skills & experience to work across projects.
School hours (8:45-4pm) with regular evening and weekend work. Working pattern negotiable.
Benefits:
Workplace pension (NEST)
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)
Office Base:
Castlegate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle, NE1 2JQ
Some home working allowed.
Work is delivered across the North East region therefore regular access to a car is essential
Contract length:
Permanent
Closing Date for applications: 5pm, 10th August 2025
Informal Visit: If you are shortlisted, you will have the opportunity to attend Blue Sky Trust between 2-4pm, Friday 15th August where you can meet the team and hear more about our work.
Interviews: 19th August 2025
Start date: Flexible from 1st September 2025
Blue Sky Trust has a Christian ethos.
www.blueskytrust.org – Please note, our website is undergoing maintenance and does not fully represent the work that we do.
To apply, visit www.blueskytrust.org
CVs not accepted.