Job Description

Salary

Grade 9 Level 1 - 4 (38,212 to 42,849 per annum)

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Employment type

Permanent

Package

37 hours per week, permanent

Job category/type

Education, Youth Services

Date posted

15/01/2026

Job reference

CHED005556



An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the virtual school team in a new post with the main focus of the role being to work with a range of partners to ensure that the cohort of children and young people (both care experience and those known to social care and living in kinship arrangements) close the gaps in their learning and achieve ambitious educational outcomes and that they have appropriate support to overcome barriers to learning and progress caused by their lived experiences.

The postholder will have knowledge and experience of the barriers to education faced by the cohort and will contribute to the virtual school statutory duties and non-statutory extended duties with a key focus on inclusion and belonging.

This post is a hybrid role with office base at West Offices.

This post is suitable as a job sharing position.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for this role. Each role at CYC is different and your working arrangements will be determined based on the requirements of the role and in collaboration with you and your needs as part of the recruitment process. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team.

As this role is public facing, applicants will need to demonstrate, at interview, their competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public, in spoken English to CEFR level C2: Can express themselves spontaneously at length with a natural conversational flow, avoiding or backtracking around any difficulty so smoothly that the person with whom they are conversing is hardly aware of it.

City of York Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We require the successful candidate to undertake an enhanced Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note, we do not have a sponsorship licence to sponsor individuals for visas to work in the UK, therefore we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The Council is committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Karron Young (Virtual School Head) at Karron.young@york.gov.uk or on 07508 312244.

Closing date: Sunday 1 February 2026 at 12 midnight

Interview date: Monday 9 February 2026