Lead Transition Youth Worker

EXETER COLLEGE; Exeter; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Exeter College is seeking an Experienced Youth Worker to lead a high-impact project supporting Year 11 pupils at risk of NEET. You will manage your own caseload and help pupils navigate final stages of secondary education toward further education, apprenticeships or employment.

You will coordinate with schools, college teams, employers, and local authorities to ensure seamless transitions, maintain records, and monitor engagement and destinations.

Qualifications

• Experience engaging vulnerable or disengaged young people.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with young people and families.
• Excellent communication skills and safeguarding knowledge.
• Experience supporting transitions into education, apprenticeships or employment would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact project supporting Year 11 pupils at risk of NEET.
• Manage your own caseload and coordinate another Youth Worker.
• Build relationships with young people and families; identify barriers; agree personalised transition plans.
• Coordinate with schools, colleges, careers services, employers, apprenticeship teams, local authorities and specialist agencies to support destinations.
• Maintain accurate records, monitor engagement and destinations, lead case discussions, and escalate where needed.

Skills

Youth engagement

Case management

Communication skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Job description

Experienced Youth Worker? Make a measurable impact with us. You'll lead a new, high-impact project supporting Year 11 pupils who are at risk of becoming NEET. You'll help young people navigate their final stages of secondary education and make a successful, sustained move into further education, an apprenticeship, employment or another positive destination.

Alongside managing your own caseload, you'll help coordinate the day-to-day work of another Youth Worker in North Devon. You'll build trusted, professional relationships with young people and, where appropriate, their families; identify barriers; agree personalised transition plans; and provide practical and motivational support through applications, enrolment, induction and the crucial first weeks of a young person's next step.

Working with schools, College teams, careers services, employers, apprenticeship teams, local authorities and specialist agencies, you'll coordinate support so young people do not fall through the gaps. You'll maintain accurate records, monitor engagement and destinations, lead case discussions, and escal…

You'll have experience engaging vulnerable, disadvantaged or disengaged young people, building positive relationships and maintaining professional boundaries. You'll be confident assessing needs, agreeing action plans and reviewing progress, with excellent communication skills and sound safeguarding knowledge. Experience supporting transitions into education, apprenticeships or employment, or young people with SEND or social, emotional or mental health needs, would be an advantage, but is not essential.