Youth & Community Worker

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We are currently recruiting for 6 Youth & Community Workers to join our dedicated Youth Justice team on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

About us

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £33,143 - £36,363 per annum subject to experience (pro rata for part-time staff)
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time staff)
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘ Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About the team

Help us keep children and young people safe and strengthen community resilience.

As part of a targeted Youth and Communities Project, we are building a team of passionate, creative and committed Youth & Community Workers who want to make a real difference to children and young people across Gloucestershire. It is a chance to be part of a forward‑thinking, place‑based, relational approach to protecting children and young people from harm and supporting them to reach their potential.

Working with children and young people, individually, in groups, and within communities, the team will help create the conditions for children and young people to feel safe, seen, supported, and able to thrive. You will play a vital role in strengthening community resilience—connecting young people to safe spaces, trusted adults, positive opportunities, and the support networks that every child deserves around them.

The team will offer a responsive presence in high need areas and locally identified community hotspots, delivering youth work to children and young people to reduce harms, such as anti-social behaviour, criminal exploitation, youth violence, or other extra-familial harms. Taking a contextual safeguarding approach, the role will be part of team that will work closely with the Harm Outside the Home Hub, Youth Justice Service and Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) arrangements.

It will align with the Early Help Community Response Network Meetings and the locality Family and Youth Hubs. The role will also support the development and delivery of The Aston Award, preserving the ethos of The Aston Project

This is currently a fixed-term project…