Youth Worker apprentice with Sandwell Youth Service
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Tipton (DY4 8UH)
Closes in 10 days (Friday 28 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 November 2025
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Summary
We are excited to be hiring a new Youth Worker Apprentice to join our fantastic Youth Service team. Our 18 month apprenticeship scheme provides a perfect way to earn a wage while you gain vital work experience and a nationally recognised qualification.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Youth support worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday between 9am and 5.30pm. Occasional evening working may be required, for which you will be given time off in lieu.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 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
About the Service:
Sandwell Youth Service offers both universal and targeted youth work and is embedded within Children and Education Services and works with a wide range of partners across Sandwell. The service works with all young people through youth clubs, our 2 dedicated youth facilities, detached youth work and mobile youth buses, as well as the most vulnerable and at-risk young people through our Enhanced Youth Support Service. The service's goal is to provide relational-based youth work interventions with trusted youth workers, in fun and engaging facilities, with a wide and varied youth offer across the 6 towns of Sandwell.
About the Role:
This Apprenticeship scheme is a great opportunity to gain experience and training. You will gain the skills needed for a professional youth worker role that will make a difference for young people in Sandwell. You will receive guidance and career support every step of the way.
Some of the tasks you will be involved with in the role include:
Supporting the delivery of Universal and Targeted youth work programmes, working towards delivering better outcomes for children and young people, including those at risk.
- Supporting the delivery of Universal and Targeted youth work programmes, working towards delivering better outcomes for children and young people, including those at risk.
- Working directly with and alongside children and young people in a variety of settings (youth clubs, youth centres, detached youth work, youth bus and in targeted settings).
- Supporting the set-up and administration of new projects.
- Providing wider support to Senior Colleagues within the Youth Service.
- Initiating and completing tasks that support effective service delivery.
- Reviewing our service delivery and making suggestions for improvements.
- Communicating in a variety of written and verbal methods, including social media accessed by young people.
- Working in local communities and with partners.
- Recording information.
- Working in a team.
Where you'll work
Sedgley Road East
Tipton
DY4 8UH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
B-SKILL LIMITED
Training course
Youth support worker (level 3)
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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
The training you will be getting:
The apprenticeship training will be delivered in the workplace, as you will receive visits from a college assessor. The apprenticeship will also include a proportion of 20% Off The Job Training and a robust programme of Mandatory Apprentice Training provided by Sandwell Council to include Fire Awareness, Prevent, Safeguarding, Data Protection & Cyber Security and Equality & Diversity.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English Language (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
You must be aged 18+ to apply for this apprenticeship due to the nature of the role. You will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The cost of this check will be met by the employer.
About this employer
Sandwell is a large, multicultural metropolitan borough situated in the heart of the Black Country, to the west of Birmingham, within the West Midlands conurbation and with a population of over 280,000. The Council is one of the largest employers in the Borough with employees in a variety of occupations, providing a comprehensive range of services. For more information about Sandwell Council’s apprenticeship programme and our recruitment process please visit our YouTube channel. Find out more information on Sandwell’s Values and Behaviours on the council’s webpage. For more information on careers in local government you can view a copy of the Local Government Career Guide.
After this apprenticeship
This apprenticeship is a fixed-term, 18 month contract and at the end you will gain a Level 3 Youth Support Qualification. However, the skills, knowledge and experience gained in this apprenticeship will allow you to gain future opportunities in the sector.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
B-SKILL LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345022.
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Closes in 10 days (Friday 28 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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