Posted 3 months ago
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Youth Worker
Job Reference: YW/07.2025
Salary: This is a full time role with a full-time equivalent salary of up to £25,141 per annum.
Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Youth Worker to join our Student Services department.
The purpose of the role is to guide and support students in their personal, social and educational development to help them reach their full potential.
The successful applicant must have:
- Knowledge of Safeguarding
- Maths and English GCSE Grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
- Experience working with young people, age 16-19 in an education, youth work, care or similar capacity
- Passion and a talent for working with young people and experience of providing pastoral support
- Excellent people skills and the ability to establish lasting relationships
- The ability to support young people and act with integrity during stressful times
- The ability to work as part of a team yet autonomously at times
- Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and oral
- Compassion and patience with other people, tolerance and time-flexibility
- Active listening skills and the ability to solve problems as they occur
- Resilience to manage challenging situations
- A strong commitment to young people and an understanding of the factors affecting their lives
- The ability to treat young people’s concerns with respect, tact and sensitivity, while being aware of the limits that are required by confidentiality and the boundaries that govern the youth/youth worker relationship
- Open-mindedness and willingness to try out new things
The roles main duties include:
- Developing a relationship with young people based on respect and trust, ensuring they have a safe place to develop their identity and place in society
- Overseeing the behaviour of the students in the student common room areas
- Establishing boundaries and challenge inappropriate behaviour
- To actively identify strategies to improve a student’s behaviour, setting and reviewing targets and putting in place a development plan regarding their behaviour
- Assess the needs of young people to correctly plan and deliver programmes related to areas such as health, fitness, smoking, drugs, gangs, violence, relationships and bullying
- Set up and run arts-based activities, community/environmental projects, outdoor education and sporting activities to improve student engagement
- Mentor, coach and support individuals, encouraging greater social inclusion
- Set targets for progression and regularly monitor those students you are supporting
- Work in partnership with families and other key people in the young person’s life, as well as with professionals from other organisations such as social care, health, police, youth offending teams and local authorities, in order to build a strong support network
- Attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings, bringing together practitioners from different sectors as part of a ‘team around the family’ (TAF) approach
- Attend regular training and development opportunities to maintain an up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding, health and safety, and local policy developments
- Undertake administrative tasks, maintain effective recording systems and respond to queries
- Identify and pursue sources of funding for projects to improve services and/or resources for young people
· Support Student Progress Mentors in managing student attendance issues, which include home visits
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Fancy a 4-day working week*?
Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month
Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What we offer you in return:
- An excellent pension scheme :
- Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5%
- A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
- In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
- 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks, after 5 years’ service
- Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
- Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
- Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 17 August 2025.
Job Description and Person Specification.
Application Form.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Form.
Guidance Notes for the Application Form.
Policy Statement for Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.
Safeguarding Policy
Privacy Notice.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to [email protected]
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This employment offer is subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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