Community and Street- Youth Worker

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA

Salary: £33,129 - £35,493 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours:25 hours per week - over 4 days

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 11th October 2026

Interview Date(s): Friday 23rd October 2026

Leicestershire Youth & Justice Service is an ambitious, vibrant and forward-thinking service working in an environment focused on supporting children towards their brighter futures. We are committed to Child First approaches and are strong in our advocacy for children.

We are a multi-agency team consisting of staff from the local authority, probation, police and health, based across Leicestershire.

The Youth & Justice Service is a dedicated service for children aged 11+ who need support. We offer a wide range of non-statutory and statutory interventions to children who are experiencing difficulties and challenges where support cannot be provided by universal services alone. We have strong relationships with wider services & partnerships supporting children and their families to ensure that we can jointly deliver the best possible support and care.

We have developed a new project that contributes to the serious violence agenda through early intervention to children.

We have 4 new exciting roles for street and community-based youth workers to make a positive difference for children and communities that are affected by youth related anti-social behaviour.

You will be based at County Hall and working in communities across Leicestershire for 25 hours per week over 4 days Tues
- Friday. These roles will be working from 1pm onwards with occasional weekend working when required, providing wrap around support for children.

These roles will be at the heart of keeping children safe and responding to wider community initiatives, working closely with schools with a mix of street based and one to one mentoring.

• Mileage paid at 55p per mile.
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
• DBS check paid for by us.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
• Access to an employee discount scheme, providing a whole host of retail discount including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
• Work for an organisation which 95% of our staff say is a good employer.

An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

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.

• Qualification level NVQ Level 3 or above, and experience working with children and families in a case or groupwork setting.
• Experience of working with children involved in anti-social behaviour – writing reports, assessments and developing and delivering intervention plans
• Experience of developing positive relationships with partner agencies, this includes working with schools and in community and street-based settings.
• Experience of voice and participation work with children and communities.
• Experience of multiagency working across services and sound knowledge of the support available for children.
• Demonstrable experience & understanding of keeping up to date on issues affecting children and young people, including a sound knowledge of safeguarding.

The successful candidate must hold a valid driver’s licence and have access to a vehicle. A reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability if the disability precludes them from driving

The post will require the successful candidate to work outside of…