Youth Engagement Officer - Fixed Term 2 years

St Helens Council; St Helens; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

St Helens Council is recruiting a Youth Engagement Officer within the Education Welfare Team. The role focuses on supporting children and young people to access education, overcoming attendance barriers, and helping them reach their potential.

You will work with schools, families and partners, delivering outreach and group activities. There is an Enhanced Disclosure post, with a balance of remote and office-based work and a minimum of two days in an office setting.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people.
• Experience delivering outreach activities or engagement programs.
• Awareness of safeguarding and safeguarding ethics.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to children and young people and help them access education.
• Support the engagement of young people through one-to-one work, group sessions and outreach.
• Contribute to safeguarding and information gathering in relation to child exploitation and related awareness sessions.

Skills

One-to-one support

Group work

Outreach work

Awareness sessions

Tools

Child safeguarding basics

Job description

Youth Engagement Officer within the Education Welfare Team is a rewarding and impactful career where every day brings an opportunity to make a difference.

Working closely with schools, families, and partner agencies, Youth Engagement Officers support children and young people to access education, overcome barriers to attendance and achieve their full potential.

Roles That Matter

As a Youth Engagement Officer you will;

• Provide support to children and young people
• Support young people on a one-to-one support basis, group work and outreach work.
• Support the engagement of children and young people deemed to be at risk of exploitation, ongoing gathering of information of child exploitation, delivering awareness sessions and informal education to children and young people.

Full Job Description & Person Specification Documents are included with this advert.

This is an Enhanced Disclosure post

Employees can regularly work away from Council workspaces (including home or other locations), alongside required office-based working. The balance between remote and office-based working is determined at service level based on operational need, however, there has been a minimum specification that staff will work at least 2 days from an office-based location.

St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.