Youth Worker - School Transitions

Westminster - Portman Early Childhood Centre and Queen's Park

Youth Worker (School Transitions)

Contract: July 2026 to 15th May 2027 Salary: £8,312.20 per annum (£27,707.33 FTE) including London Weighting Location: Westminster, London

About the role

We are looking for a community-based Youth Worker to build trusting, supportive, and collaborative relationships with vulnerable young people aged 10-12, particularly those with SEND or from low income households, who are transitioning from Years 5 and 6 into secondary school. The Youth Worker will identify and address potential risk factors that may impact a young person's successful transition to secondary school, as well as their overall wellbeing, confidence, and engagement.

The successful candidate will provide support to build the young person's skills, confidence and resilience during this critical period and to engage positively at their new secondary school. This will include the delivery of targeted programmes, activities and 1:1 interventions that address the specific challenges faced by young people including bullying, social isolation, special needs, academic pressures or mental health issues. The support will be delivered in person within a variety of settings including faith based groups, schools and youth centres. This post will also work closely with our Community Safety Champions project.

You will have the ability to build rapport with young people and engage them in activities leading to empowerment and raising aspirations.

Employment & Benefits

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support, including those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those who identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro diversity, and those from other under represented groups.

Safeguarding

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and, where appropriate, will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Legal Statement

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.