Youth Support Apprentice
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Bootle (L20 3NJ)
Closes in 15 days (Friday 1 May 2026)
Posted on 15 April 2026
Contents
Summary
The Youth Justice Team are looking to recruit an apprentice who is committed and motivated to support the delivery of youth work, positive activities and interventions, and support participation and engagement, that enables children to thrive and achieve their potential.
- Wage
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£24,572 a year
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Age 16-17 £15,468 (£8.24 per hour) -Age 18-20 £20,987 (£11.18 per hour) -Age 21+ £24,572 (£13.09 per hour)
- Training course
- Youth support worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (7.20 hours per day on a flexitime basis) and will be required to work some evenings and occasional weekends.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year 9 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
Main Duties:
- The postholder will work directly with young people, supporting their needs and delivering programmes and activities that meet these needs
- To build positive relationships with young people and support their participation and engagement
- To attend regular supervision sessions
- Make use of all available learning and development opportunities
- To undertake any other duties as directed to meet the needs of the service
Where you'll work
Magdalen House
30 Trinity Road
Bootle
L20 3NJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLS OFFICE NETWORK LTD
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
- Level 3 Youth Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard
- The training will be delivered at the workplace
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade C - above or equivalent)
- Mathematics (grade Grade C - above or equivalent)
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
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
This post requires the apprentice to work some evenings and occasional weekends.
About this employer
Sefton Council is a local authority within the Liverpool City Region. Sefton is a diverse and exciting borough and is a great place to live and work. As an employer we can offer a diverse range of job roles across a variety of settings. We offer attractive conditions of service which allow for a good work life balance and invest in our staff through our learning and development programme.
https://www.sefton.gov.uk/jobs-volunteering-and-training/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Apprentice will receive on-programme support from an Apprenticeship Officer and Careers, information, advice and guidance support during the last 2-months of their apprenticeship contract
- Job-seeking support is also included
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
The Corporate Apprenticeship Team
Apprenticeships@sefton.gov.uk
+441519344719
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000025854.
Apply now
Closes in 15 days (Friday 1 May 2026)
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