Youth Worker
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5766 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field-Based Worker
Salary: £31,074 - £33,294 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 Hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 7th August 2025
Interview Date(s):TBC
The Inclusion Service is looking for a Youth Worker to join the team. Supported by your Manager and an Education Officer, you will work face-to-face and virtually with young people who are facing challenges accessing education.
About the Role
The Inclusion Service works with children, young people and their families to support them to achieve the best outcomes possible. This role within the Service is aimed at supporting young people where there are vulnerabilities due to emotional wellbeing that prevent the young person from engaging in education. The principal aim is to support the young person to build resilience against the barriers to education through planned interventions and innovative delivery styles.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
- Significant experience of working with children, young people and families in either case or group work situations.
- Experience of working with children with Social, Emotional, Mental Health Needs.
- Experience of working in a multi-agency setting.
- Experience of engaging with young people who are vulnerable or from a hard-to-reach group.
- The use of innovative and interactive techniques to engage young people, parents, staff, and partners, particularly those children, young people, and families who are hard to reach.
- Experience of developing and delivering training and group work.
- Possession of a valid driving licence, access to a vehicle, and relevant insurances. However, a reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence them when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Emma Wiltshire -Team Manager
Phone : 01163055987
Email : Emma.Wiltshire@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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