Youth Worker

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of young people?

We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate, and skilled Youth Workerto join our Targeted Youth Work Team, supporting young people aged 13–19(up to 25for SEND and Care Leavers) as they transition into adulthood.

This is a dynamic and rewarding role working with young people who are:

• Missing out on education
• Missing from home
• At risk of, or open to, criminal or sexual exploitation

• SEND, LGBTQ
• Facing challenges around wellbeing, resilience, or independence

About the role

You will deliver alternative education programmes, accredited learning opportunities, and both daytime and evening support through one-to-one and group-based work. Including detached youth work in community areas, parks and places of interest.

The Youth Worker will provide intensive, relationship-based support to young people struggling to access school or alternative provision. This includes one to one intervention to address barriers such as anxiety, low confidence, or challenging circumstances, partnership working with schools, families, and wider services, supporting reintegration into education or identifying suitable alternative pathways.

Detached Youth Work - The post includes proactive detached youth work, engaging young people in their communities who may not access traditional services, particularly those who we worry about in contextual safeguarding. This enables early identification of emerging issues and vulnerabilities, building trusted relationships with hard-to-reach young people, providing informal support, information, and signposting, reducing risk taking behaviours and anti-social behaviour.

Replacing this post will help the young people within our service to improve school attendance and engagement in learning, strengthen early intervention and prevention work, enhance community presence and safeguarding through detached youth work.

The role is diverse with no one day the same, for more information on the role please view the 'In this job you will' section within the attached job description specification document. 

In return we are able to offer:

• Enhanced annual leave- Start with an impressive 34 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) from day one, and watch it grow to 39 days after just five years of service
• Purchase of annual leave – Want more time off? You can purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year, giving you the flexibility to balance work and life just the way you want (Pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Salary sacrifice green car scheme- Drive green and save green! Lease a brand-new electric or hybrid car through our salary sacrifice scheme. There’s no credit checks, no deposits, just significant savings and exclusive offers on a three-year lease
• White goods salary sacrifice scheme - Upgrade your home with ease. Purchase home and electronic items through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost of big-ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets directly from your salary
• Enhanced public pension- Secure your future with our career average pension, where contributions are built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
• Cycle to work scheme - Save up to 25-39% on the retail price of bikes and safety equipment through Income Tax and National Insurance savings. Get fit and save money!
• Employee assistance programme- Access a completely free and confidential assistance service to help manage, reduce, and overcome life’s challenges, both at work and in your personal life
• Discounted gym membership -Stay active and healthy with corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure, including:
• Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
• Off-Peak Racket Sports
• Athletics Tracks
• Sauna/Steam/Spa

Join us and experience a workplace that truly values and supports you!

Organisation

Cheshire East Council

Location

Middlewich, Wilmslow, Holmes Chapel, Congleton, Crewe, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Sandbach, Alsager

Job Category

Children and Young People Services

Grade

CEC NJC - Grade 7

Salary Min

£31,537 pro rata per annum

Salary Max

£34,434 pro rata per annum

Hours per week

22.2

Weeks per year

52.143

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

23/09/2026

Ref No

E3818

Documents

• Youth Worker Job Description and Specification June 26.pdf
  (PDF, 1318.88kb)

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

We are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed as failure to do so will result in their application being rejected. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however, please do not be discouraged from applying again.

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Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.

For more information contact Kay McIntyre  - Show email.

Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.