Youth Worker

The job in one line

You will work with a group of 25 young people, teach across the programme, and be the adult who does not give up on them. Everything else in this advert is detail.

Who you will be working with

PET-Xi runs a 16–19 Study Programme for young people mainstream education has not served well. Some were excluded. Some simply stopped attending and nobody chased them. Some arrived in the UK as asylum seekers or refugees and are rebuilding an education in a second language.

Around nine in ten of our learners are neurodiverse. Six in ten come from low-income households, which means the cost of turning up, travel, food, kit, is itself a barrier. Some were referred with at least one contextual safeguarding concern. A few do not speak in class very much.

They are not a problem to be managed. They are sixteen to nineteen year olds who have been told they are difficult often enough to believe it. Your job is to prove otherwise.

What the job asks of you

• Total commitment. Twenty-five young people are yours. Their attendance, their progress, their behaviour, their week. You are there to build their sense of their own worth, to be a role model and an ally, and to help them take up their place in the world.
• Deliver across the programme. GCSE English or maths, customer service, work-related sk...