Herts Legal Service - Hertfordshire County Council
Youth Support Worker - King's Trust
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Youth Support Worker – King’s Trust (King’s Trust Team Programme)
Job Title
Youth Support Worker – King’s Trust (Community Protection Directorate)
Key Details
- Starting Salary: £27,694 (progression to £31,022 per annum, pro rata for part-time) (Pay award pending)
- Hours: 37
- Location: Hemel Hempstead
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Interview Date: Week commencing 27th July 2026 (application review upcoming)
About The Team & Programme
Join an exciting opportunity in the Youth Support Worker role, working within the King’s Trust Team Programme – a ground-breaking 12-week intervention for 16–25-year-olds (NEET: Not in Employment, Education, or Training).
You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering a comprehensive support package, including:
- Session-based group facilitation
- Work placement assistance
- Personal development & challenge workshops
- Guiding young people toward sustainable next steps
- Hands-on community project involvement
Additionally, you’ll:
- Attend three 4-day residential team-building activities per year
- Collaborate with external agencies to promote and recruit participants
- Build strong partnerships with local organisations
About The Role
This isn’t a typical job – it’s dynamic, hands-on, and transformative. At its core, you’ll be: ✔ Supporting individuals through personal and professional crises ✔ Designing engaging projects that empower young people to progress ✔ Acting as a mentor and advocate in a team-based environment
Every young person you work with will have unique challenges, from education attainment gaps to mental health barriers. Your adaptability, resilience, and ability to connect authentically will make all the difference.
Responsibilities
- Session Delivery: Lead interactive workshops covering personal development, teamwork, employability, and life skills.
- Direct Candourate Support: Use motivational training techniques to tackle disengagement and instigate change.
- Work Placement Coordination: Help navigate young people into training, apprenticeships, or employment.
- Milestone Marshalling: Collate and evidence progress across the 12-week programme.
- Community Engagement: Whether networking or nurturing resilience in young people, your commitment will build bridges—between participants, aspirants, and those who can help.
- External Partnerships: Work closely with an array of partner agencies to expand reach and support.
- Core Competencies Diligence: Maintain up-to-date compliance with King’s Trust safeguarding & safeguarding training requirements.
- Accountability for Results: Weekly checks with your Supervisor to summarise summary achievements.
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Requirements
Essential Criteria
- Team Synergy: Proven collaborative ability, especially in multi-stakeholder settings (Youth Support Worker / Team joint work).
- Self-Directed Capability: Problem-solving without micromanaging, prioritizing varied and sometimes competing tasks to deliver impact.
- Administrative Aptitude: Keen eye for records, reporting, and ensuring compliance with documentation protocols.
- Project Identification: Able to creatively design initiatives tailored to the king’s Trust’s values.
- Mobility: Full UK driving license (required for Hare leases purpose, company-provided or own vehicle).
Desirable Criteria
- Youth Experience: Technical or passionately motivated experience in university transition, financial inclusion, education, welfare-to-work, or parenting programs.
- Cultural Context: Understanding of how macro and micro youth challenges impact progress.
- Transferable Competencies: If you haven’t worked directly with youth, showcase where you’ve supported marginalized communities, demonstrated emotional empathy, or led learning-focused interventions.
For further info, try accessing network triple-decker’s FAQ or explore King’s Trust Job Profile.
Additional Notes
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD): Open to all interested applicants – training provision will equip you with essential skills.
- Alternative Communications: Applications must include proof of a valid UK right-to-work status. Organisations support candidates from diverse backgrounds.
- Fluency: English fluency with clarity documented, or reliance on qualified interpreters. Scientific definitions tied legal mandates / safeguarding framework in the link provided.
Safeguarding
This is an authorised position; the role is assigned a DBS Enhanced check clearance.
Location & Mobility
Duties extend across Hertfordshire. Applicants must possess the ability to drive (prior loss of driving entitlement or ongoing DBS restrictions) or showcase your strategies for logistics clearance.
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Reasons to Join
- Purpose-Driven Culture: Shape an impactful programme that moves young people toward more positive outcomes.
- Permanent Resourcing: As a Major Council, we ensure consistent work stability and pay progression.
- Development Pathway:
- Progect Link Opportunities: Collaborate on youth workforce transformation agendas, building specialist expertise.
- Opportunities for Growth: Development avenues within Community Protection / Wellbeing clusters.
Reorganization Note
The Changes Face Our Council: Next April, [Hertfordshire County Council will reorganize support organisation into unitaries]. Established staff roles transferred with TUPE agreements.
How to Apply
Application Steps
Applicants must upload:
- A current CV (all gaps/experiences documented).
- Two curriculum vitae references (preferably character references).
- A Brexful application system. Submit via [url] after logging in with Government Gateway.
- Antidote recommendations highlighted to showcase relevant skills. Make it work for our review: Highlight fluent examples from your CV/application.
Welcome Guidance
- Demonstrate experiences demonstrating the Skills and Criteria in the advert/service template.
- Option to add a short narrative (250 words max) detailing your qualifications and debriefs on why this job would thrive with you.
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Benefits of working here
We provide a supportive environment that acknowledges your contributions with:
- Financial Compass: Regular progression opportunities including merit increment scale.
- Flexibility Opportunities: Commuter flexibility and considerations on established parental type accrues (e.g.).
- Development Leverage: Accessible opportunities to join [Safeguarding / Training] with guidance provided.
- Notice Cycle / Structured Career Growth Track.
Actual rewards listed are reflective of internal commemoration. For direct enquires, contact Coral.Jobson@Hertfordshire.gov.uk.
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