School Lead Youth Worker

2 weeks ago

Burry Port, United Kingdom Carmarthenshire County Council Full time

**School Lead Youth Worker**:
We adopt an ‘anonymous recruitment’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made.

We are committed to recruiting, retaining, and developing a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Sharing your equality monitoring data allows us to assess the impact our recruitment and employment policies and practices have and gives us the opportunity to improve them where possible. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

**About the vacancy**

**Vacancy ID**:
1937

**Organisation**:

- Carmarthenshire County Council

**Number of vacancies**:

- 1

**Contract type**:

- Temporary/Secondment - Full Time

**Contract end date**:

- 31 March 2026

**Location**:

- Burry Port, Carmarthen

**Grade**:

- Grade G

**Salary**:

- £31,067 - £35,235
If part time and/or term time, the full time salary quoted (based on 37hrs) will be pro-rata'd accordingly**Hourly Rate**:

- £16.10 - £18.26

**Contract Hours**
- 37 Hours

**Come and join our team**

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, self-motivated person to provide targeted personal support across the 3 Carmarthenshire Secondary Teaching and Learning Centres (Carmarthen, Burry Port and Pwll) and the community for children and young people aged predominantly 10 - 18 years and their families. The worker will engage with young people who will commonly be
affected by a broad range of issues associated with family poverty, and those at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training). The worker will adopt a range of strategies, approaches and the use of effective networks to provide bespoke, needs based support and intervention for young people in need or at risk, within their own communities.
- Job Profile - School Lead Youth Worker - PRU.pdf - 167KB Opens in a new window

**DBS level**:


**Welsh language level - verbal**
- Level 3 - You will need a good level of conversational Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level

**Closing Date**:
25/08/2025, 23:55

**The Rewards**

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

- Competitive salary
- Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing addition annual leave
- Access to staff health and wellbeing support
- Personal development and career progression
- Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
- Flexible working and family friendly policies

**Additional Information**

We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

**Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the essential criteria and are registered on our redeployment pool.**

Please see the ‘How we Recruit’ guidance on the Careers Page for more information on the recruitment process.

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