About the role

Youth Engagement Worker

Service: Gloucestershire Youth Support Service
Salary: £25,221 – £27,780 per annum

Location: Stroud and Cotswolds Districts
Hours: 37 hours per week (full-time), including evenings and weekends

Contract: Permanent

About Family Action
Family Action is a national charity supporting children, young people and families through high-quality, inclusive services across the UK. Our Gloucestershire Youth Support Service offers centre-based, outreach and detached youth work shaped by young people’s voices.

The Role
We are looking for a dynamic and creative Youth Engagement Worker to help deliver our inclusive youth offer across Stroud and the Cotswolds. You will build positive relationships with young people aged 11–18 (up to 25 for care leavers and young people with SEND), providing engaging group sessions, 1:1 support, and outreach/detached work. You will contribute to early help and contextual safeguarding, ensuring young people feel heard, supported and empowered.

What We’re Looking For
You’ll bring experience in youth work, excellent communication skills, an understanding of safeguarding, and a commitment to equity and inclusion. You’ll be confident working independently and as part of a team, with the flexibility to work evenings and weekends.

Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a values-driven organisation that is people-focused, can-do, striving for excellence and rooted in mutual respect.

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
If you’re excited by this role and think you have the right skills and experience to take forward our ambitious plans for youth engagement work in Gloucestershire, please do apply. Please see the accompanying job description and person specification. All applications should be set out against the person specification.

• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 8th March 2026 at 11.59pm; however applications will be reviewed as they are received and the post may be closed early if a large number of applications are received.

Applicants invited to interview will be contacted within 1 week of the closing date.

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: mandy.massey@family-action.org.uk

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are other exceptional reasons.