Ethos Youth Worker

7 days ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Grace Foundation Full time

At the heart of all we do is a passion to help transform student’s lives, helping develop the whole person and equipping them to reach their full potential.

We exist to transform young people’s lives through holistic education. Through our Christian ethos we are committed to working with schools from the inside out to support the aspirational, relational, and spiritual needs of students and their families.

Our approach to education focusses on developing the whole person, enhancing student wellbeing, and improving OFSTED outcomes to help transform school communities.

**Summary of role**

The Ethos Youth Worker provides tailored support to students, offering interventions and mentoring to address challenges like low self-esteem, anxiety, and behavioural difficulties. They collaborate across the curriculum to embed a values-based approach to learning and create safe spaces, supporting students’ personal, social, and academic development.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support the delivery of a holistic programme, including drop-down days, lessons, assemblies, clubs, and intervention groups, all rooted in our Christian ethos.
- Deliver clubs, workshops and interventions that help meet student’s emotional, relational, and spiritual needs.
- Work with young people on an individual or group basis, in both formal and informal settings, offering practical and emotional support to help them develop skills for making positive changes in their lives.
- Empower young people to build self-confidence, increase self-esteem, make informed choices, and develop moral character and values, while encouraging them to empower others.
- Effectively deliver and support small-group intervention programmes for referred students.
- Liaise with key local Church and Community Partners.
- Track, record, and measure student impact, ensuring that interventions are effective and outcomes are clearly documented.
- Carry out general administrative tasks as required.
- Work as an integrated part of the Ethos Team, collaborating with colleagues to achieve shared goals.
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by line management.

**Location**:
Shire Oak Academy, Lichfield Road, WS9 9PA

**Hours of work**

22.5 hrs per week, part-time, all year round. Flexibility of working hours may be required with advance notice. Salary is pro-rata. 3 month probationary period.

**How to Apply**

We have a clear expectation that employed staff will have a familiarity with, and an ability to perform in accordance with, the mission, vision, and values of Grace Foundation’s charitable objective. In line with these charitable objectives, and in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, it is therefore a Genuine Occupational Requirement that this post holder is a practicing Christian.

Application deadline is Friday 10th October 2025.

Interview dates tbc.

Start Date -December 2025.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £23,809.50 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance

Application question(s):

- We have a clear expectation that employed staff will have a familiarity with, and an ability to perform in accordance with, the mission, vision, and values of Grace Foundation’s charitable objective. In line with these charitable objectives, and in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, it is therefore a Genuine Occupational Requirement that this post holder is a practicing Christian.

Please confirm that you are a practicing Christian.

**Location**:

- Walsall (required)

Work Location: In person

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