Job Description

Job description
Are you passionate about supporting young people? If the answer is yes, then Sheffield City Council Community Youth Services wants you!



Sheffield City Council Community Youth Services are made up of several youth engagement teams that seek to support young people in their community. These teams include our Information Advice and Guidance team or IAG.



Our IAG team is committed to providing consistent and professional Information, Advice and Guidance support to enable our young residents to thrive.



Within our IAG team, we currently have a 22.2 hours per week vacancy for an IAG qualified careers adviser minimum level 4. This is an exciting and challenging role which includes working with young people who have an Educational Health and Care Plan or are in a specialist setting and their parents or carers.



The post holder will deliver careers guidance interviews with students in an education setting and attend annual reviews. You will also support students who are Not in Education, Employment or Training who may have an Educational Health Care Plan.



We are looking for someone who has experience of delivering careers guidance interviews in an education setting and it would be highly desirable if they have some experience of delivering careers guidance for young people who have an Educational Health Care Plan. The key focus of the role is to ensure that young people make a successful transition into post 16 education, training, or employment.



The role may involve one to one work, group work, home visits, community based delivery, telephone follow up and attendance at multi agency meetings.



Working alongside colleagues within the councils wider Community Youth Service, advisers will have a caseload of young people who they will support to set and achieve personal goals. Key elements of this role will be to identify and remove barriers to engagement in post 16 learning and to provide advice and guidance around the range of options available.



We offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.



For informal enquiries, please contact lorraine.jones@sheffield.gov.uk or john.moloughney@sheffield.gov.uk



We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.



It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.



We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.



Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.



Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.



If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide pay slip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.



Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

Job details

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Job reference
REQ003481
Date posted
04/07/2025
Application closing date
27/07/2025
Location
Sheffield
Salary
Grade 6 32,115 to 36,124 Pro rata
Package
Permanent Position
Contractual hours
22.2
Basis
Blank
Job category/type
Youth and Communities