School Lead Youth Worker

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, self‑motivated person to provide targeted personal support within Dyffryn Taf School 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.

An Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be requested for this job. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or adults sh 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.

Salary: £32,061 – £36,363. 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 of our recruitment and employment policies and practices and gives us the opportunity to improve them where possible.

Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing additional 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