About the role

Senior Youth Engagement Worker

Service: Gloucestershire Youth Support Service
Location: Cotswolds & Stroud Districts

Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £28,884 - £31,698 per annum

Contract: Permanent

About Family Action
Family Action delivers high-quality, inclusive services supporting children, young people and families across the UK. Our Youth Support Service in Gloucestershire provides centre-based, outreach and detached youth work, ensuring young people are heard, supported and empowered.

The Role
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Youth Engagement Worker to lead and deliver a diverse range of youth work activities across the Stroud and Cotswolds districts. You will take a lead role in one-to-one support, group work, outreach and detached youth work, as well as conducting Return Home Interviews for children who have been missing from home. You will work flexibly, including some evening and weekend working to ensure young people feel safe, included and able to influence decisions that affect their lives.

What We’re Looking For
You will bring substantial experience in youth work practice, strong skills in safeguarding and risk assessment, and the ability to build trusting relationships with young people from a wide range of backgrounds. You will be organised, reflective and confident working both independently and as part of a team. A relevant Level 3+ qualification or significant experience of multi-agency working and a full driving license are essential.

Why Join Us?
You will join a supportive, ambitious and value-driven team committed to delivering high-quality youth work that makes a real difference. We offer ongoing professional development, flexible working arrangements, pension contributions and a generous annual leave package.

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
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- 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: Wednesday 11th 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.