Project and Administrative Apprentice
Westminster City Council
London (SW1E 6QP)
Closes in 11 days (Monday 3 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 July 2026
Contents
Summary
Youth Support Workers support young people aged 11–25 through informal education, promoting personal, social and educational development. They plan and deliver programmes, safeguard young people, collaborate with professionals, and may supervise volunteers or staff under the guidance of a qualified youth worker.
- Wage
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£28,260 a year
- Training course
- Youth support worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Westminster City Council offers an agile, supportive hybrid environment combining office-based and remote working. Shifts to be confirmed.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 28 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Key Activities:
For the Bi-borough Families First Programme:
- Provide project and administrative support
- Help organise a whole Bi-Borough Family Services staff conference. This will include developing the agenda content and format, booking the venue, preparing any materials, coordinating speakers, and circulating any pre and post event information to participants
- Manage the booking of rooms and calendar
- Meet the programme lead to set the agenda for meeting, draft and circulate the agenda
- Manage any changes to the dates of the meetings and book meeting rooms. (NB. dates and venues already booked but any changes will need to be managed)
- Support prep of PowerPoint master slides for each meeting, in conjunction with programme team (Ben and Sophie)
- Circulate meeting papers in advance of the meeting
- Use AI to create a meeting summary and circulate afterwards
Support workshop planning and delivery by:
- Booking venues and manging calendars
- Support evaluation and sending out questionnaires
- Support recording discussions to ensure participants voices are heard
- Writing up the outputs and analysing them, to ensure participants’ voices are fed back
- Supporting preparation of PowerPoint master slides to help structure work stream meetings
Where you'll work
Westminster City Hall
64 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BLUE SKY ASSESSING & CONSULTANCY LTD
Training course
Youth support worker (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Recognise, manage and reflect upon relational boundaries in professional youth support work
- Communicate with stakeholders - internal and/or external
- Facilitate the learning and development of young people
- Encourage the participation of young people in developing their own learning
- Facilitate activities and techniques to use with young people that promote self-confidence and build self-esteem and resilience
- Reflect individually and through supervision on practice in line with daily tasks to enhance the support young people receive
- Monitor and record the outcomes of own practice to identify areas for development and improvement
- Appropriately manage behaviour boundaries in line with organisational policies
- Plan youth support work programmes and sessions
- Lead youth support work programmes and sessions
- Evaluate youth support work programmes and sessions
- Enable young people to express their views, aspirations, needs and concerns appropriately in line with youth support work principles
- Identify, appropriately challenge and act upon oppressive or discriminatory attitudes, behaviours and situations
- Support young people to participate in planning, organising, delivering and evaluating youth work activities and programmes, and engaging on issues of importance to them
- Embeds in own practice a commitment to the rights of young people
- Apply safeguarding procedures and protocols
- Work within the parameters of organisational, local and national health and safety, child protection, data protection and equalities policies and procedures
- Participate in risk assessments and manage risk and risk benefits within the workplace
- Record all health and safety risks and take the correct actions to ensure the safety of all young people
- Complete administrative responsibilities e.g., signing in young people, risk assessments and recording activities
- Manage budgets and resources
- Manage individuals in line with organisational procedures
- Work with and maintain professional behaviour boundaries when working with young people
- Recognise, manage and reflect upon relational boundaries in professional youth support work
- Communicate with stakeholders - internal and/or external
- Facilitate the learning and development of young people
- Encourage the participation of young people in developing their own learning
- Facilitate activities and techniques to use with young people that promote self-confidence and build self-esteem and resilience
- Reflect individually and through supervision on practice in line with daily tasks to enhance the support young people receive
- Monitor and record the outcomes of own practice to identify areas for development and improvement
- Appropriately manage behaviour boundaries in line with organisational policies
- Plan youth support work programmes and sessions
- Lead youth support work programmes and sessions
- Evaluate youth support work programmes and sessions
- Enable young people to express their views, aspirations, needs and concerns appropriately in line with youth support work principles
- Identify, appropriately challenge and act upon oppressive or discriminatory attitudes, behaviours and situations
- Support young people to participate in planning, organising, delivering and evaluating youth work activities and programmes, and engaging on issues of importance to them
- Embeds in own practice a commitment to the rights of young people
- Apply safeguarding procedures and protocols
- Work within the parameters of organisational, local and national health and safety, child protection, data protection and equalities policies and procedures
- Participate in risk assessments and manage risk and risk benefits within the workplace
- Record all health and safety risks and take the correct actions to ensure the safety of all young people
- Complete administrative responsibilities e.g., signing in young people, risk assessments and recording activities
- Manage budgets and resources
- Manage individuals in line with organisational procedures
- Work with and maintain professional behaviour boundaries when working with young people
Training schedule
- Training will be delivered online once a month
- We are happy to consider applicants for part-time and/or job share arrangements for this role
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
About this employer
Westminster City Council believes in creating a place where people are born into a supportive and safe environment, grow and learn throughout their lives, build fantastic careers in world-leading industries, have access to high quality, affordable homes and retire into the community with dignity and pride.
We work together to adapt to the changing needs of our communities – resulting in a dynamic atmosphere where ambition, diversity and creativity are celebrated.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Career progression generally involves advancing to senior practitioner roles, moving into management, or specialising in fields like youth justice, mental health, or education
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BLUE SKY ASSESSING & CONSULTANCY LTD
Bita Mofidian
bmofidian@diversefutures.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043789.
Apply now
Closes in 11 days (Monday 3 August 2026 at 11:59pm)