Youth Pathways Worker

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Contractual hours 37

Basis Full time

Package EDU-T

Job category/type Youth and Community Work

Date posted 04/06/2026

Job reference 18800

37 hours per week

Fixed Tern up to 31 March 2027

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills. With extensive experience of working with young people who are furthest away from engaging competitively in the labour market.

This post will form a crucial part of Local Authorities’ implementation of the Youth Engagement and Progression Framework. As an Engagement and Transition Worker the post holder will proactively re-engage and maintain relationships with young people who have failed to make a successful transition from school, college and training and also with their families more broadly, as appropriate.

Working closely with the Engagement and Progression Coordinator and Careers Wales the post holder will be working peripatetically, and as such should have the ability to work both as a team, but also on their own initiative working to support young people in a variety of educational, community based and outreach settings.

The post may involve a maximum of 4 evenings per week and the occasional weekend work.

The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

An Enhanced Children and Adults Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.

A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.

The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.