Young People's Health and Wellbeing Officer-Male only
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5910 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA & County wide locations
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £32,070 - £34,359 per annum (Pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 1st September 2025
Interview Date(s): 12th September 2025 - a young people’s panel, will also be applicable which will likely take place on an evening (dates to be confirmed).
About the Role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a full time, Health and Wellbeing Officer (male only applicants) to join our existing County wide teen health team on a permanent basis. Teen Health is a universal service within the Targeted Family Help Service, which is commissioned by Public Health to support the delivery of the Healthy Together Programme for 11-19 year olds educated in Leicestershire. Teen Health supports Young People in Leicestershire to make healthier choices, to sustain healthy, positive relationships and maintain good emotional health.
- Are you passionate about supporting young people to achieve their potential and support healthy choices?
- Do you have experience of working with young people in a group and one to one?
- Do you enjoy liaising and networking with other agencies to ensure that young people are supported in all areas of their lives?
- Do you enjoy working as part of a busy and dynamic team of like-minded colleagues to strive for high quality services in Leicestershire?
If you can answer yes to these, this may be the role for you!
Things you can expect to do in this role include:
- Liaising with key individuals in schools to ensure that the Teen Health offer is accessible and promoted to young people
- Spending up to one day per week in your allocated schools to provide one to one support and group support
- Delivering sexual health advice and drop ins, including condom registration events and distribution
- Supporting the planning and delivery of groups and events in the community for young people in line with the teen health local priority areas
- Working with young people to complete assessments of their needs and develop plans to help support and achieve their desired outcomes.
- Promoting Safeguarding and reporting safeguarding concerns, and working within national legislation and local policy, to ensure that young people are safeguarded and accessing the correct level of support.
- Supporting the wider Teen Health team across the County to ensure that delivery is equitable and consistent for all young people in Leicestershire
- Managing your own diary for appointments, meetings, group delivery and recording all interventions with young people
Please note this is a county wide position, and school locations are not yet confirmed.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity 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:
Please refer to these 7 points when making your application, giving examples as evidence of how you meet them
- Be educated to degree level or equivalent or able to demonstrate equivalent aptitude
- Experience of front-line practice in case and group work with young people and families
- The ability to engage and build relationships with vulnerable children and young people, who will often have complex backgrounds
- Have knowledge and awareness of Safeguarding procedures and the experience of developing a plan of care to safeguard an adult or child
- Ability to negotiate and communicate with a range of local authorities and stakeholders with the resilience and ability to be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Be able to prioritise and manage your own workload whilst delivering quality results to tight deadlines and have strong organisational skills with the ability to work on own initiative and within delegated responsibility.
- Have a full valid driving licence, unrestricted use of a car, and relevant insurances and be willing to travel across Leicestershire to buildings and family’s homes, to meet the needs of service delivery. A reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability.
All shortlisted applicants will be invited to a panel interview, which will take place on Friday 12th September. Candidates will also be invited to a young people’s panel, which will likely take place on an evening (dates to be confirmed).
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 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 to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst 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 which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Laura Foster, Young People's Team Leader
0116 3050151
laura.foster@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 as part of your application which explains 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.
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