Senior Youth Support Workers

Senior Youth Support Workers x 3

2 x 18.5 hours per week

1 x 14.8 hours per week

Fixed Term Contract from 01/07/2026 to 31/03/2027 (with indicative funding for the 2027–2028 financial period subject to performance)

Efford Youth Centre - Plymouth Hotspots (Agile touchdown / Hot-desking setup across location environments)

Plymouth City Council’s Cosmo Community Youth Team (CCYT) is looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Youth Support Worker to join us as a System Youth Support Worker (SYSW) specializing in Active Places.

This role is a vital part of our newly secured Sport England-funded programme, delivered through Active Devon as part of the Plymouth Place Partnership programme for 2026/27. The initiative focuses on scaling proven pilot approaches across the city to embed long-term system change, moving beyond individual interventions to remove systemic barriers to participation.

This is a frontline, face-to-face role delivering high-quality, relationship-based youth work grounded in Trauma-Informed and Physical Literacy approaches. You will engage with young people aged 13 to 19 (and up to 25 for individuals with SEND), particularly those experiencing trauma, disengagement, physical inactivity, or poverty.

As a highly flexible, community and outdoor/indoor delivery worker, you won't be stuck in one centre. Instead, you will hot-desk, touchdown, and use local insights across targeted neighbourhoods. You will move fluidly from school-embedded sessions out into parks, waterfronts, and urban community facilities where targeted delivery is needed most.

This senior post plays a critical dual role: you will bring the partnership's vision to life through visible delivery on the ground, and you will act as a practice lead. This means you will coordinate joint work with key partners like Active Devon, local schools, and activity providers, while also providing essential sessional oversight, practice supervision, and coaching to upskill local youth support workers and volunteers.

This vacancy is open to both internal and external applicants. We are looking for an exceptional practitioner who can lead innovative frontline work and help us build a lasting sense of belonging for young people in our communities.

• Manage delivery in single projects, specifically leading educational, place-based, and school-embedded youth work initiatives integrating Physical Literacy principles (allocated at 30% of project time).
• Identify the shifting needs of service users through direct field engagement, co-design sessions, and local outreach across targeted Plymouth neighbourhood environments (allocated at 60% of project time).
• Provide first-line coaching, practice supervision, and sessional oversight to youth support workers and volunteers to maintain service quality and curriculum standards (allocated at 10% of project time).
• Work flexibly within emerging multi-agency frameworks alongside partners like Active Devon, local secondary schools, and activity providers to develop joint transition pathways (allocated at 5% of project time).
• Perform administrative tracking, ensuring the robust discharge of sessional duties, budget monitoring of the allocated resource funds, and strict health and safety compliance (allocated at 5% of project time).
• Utilize Management Information Systems (MIS) to enter and track performance and wellbeing indicators through toolsets like Outcomes Star, YP CORE, and Goal-Based Outcomes (GBOs).
• Formulate curriculum areas following national or professional standards across core thematic areas, establishing blue (water), green (nature), and built (facilities) activities as behavioural engagement hooks.

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