Care-Leaver Link Worker - The Youth Trust
Job Posted: 2 September 2025
- Contract Term: Fixed Term
- Location: Newport, Isle of Wight
- Contract Type: Part time
- Salary: £24,637 FTE (pro-rated)
- Industries: Charity / Voluntary Health & Social Care Social Work
Care-Leaver Link Worker
Isle of Wight Youth Trust is an independent local charity, working in our local community for over 40 years, delivering confidential, professional counselling, therapeutic and wellbeing services for children and young people.
If you want to make a positive difference in the lives of children and young people, we want to hear from you. We are looking for a motivated, dynamic support worker, with either lived experience of, or sound understanding of the challenges faced by care-leavers.
Purpose: (Please note this is not a therapeutic role)
- Raise awareness of the needs of care leavers and reduce barriers to access and participation in services
- Understand what support is available and be able to deliver IAG (Information, Advice & Guidance) to them
- Establish an individual support plan for each care leaver engaged in the service that creates a holistic, wide support offer within YT that includes access to mental health interventions, and Hub activity, including housing, and employment advice that achieves positive outcomes, especially into employment and/or training and education. Signposting and ‘handholding’ into other relevant services as appropriate.
- Help to reduce the feelings of isolation felt by some care leavers through befriending, support with social activities, volunteering, etc
- Provide advocacy for the needs of care-experienced young people and care leavers to ensure their needs are recognised and addressed.
- Proactively identifying gaps in care leaver services and support mechanisms to highlight opportunities for both the Trust and other services.
Experience: You will have either lived experience or a sound knowledge of the issues faced by those leaving the care system.
How to apply: If you want to join our dedicated team, please visit our recruitment portal to view the full job description and person specification and apply, submitting both your CV and a full covering letter. It is essential that you outline how you meet the requirements of the post against the person specification in your covering letter. Applications not made via the Youth Trust recruitment portal, or incorrectly submitted will not be considered. If you have any issues with uploading your documents please send your documents directly to [email protected]
Contract type: Fixed Term - until 31/8/25
Hours: 22.5 hours (3 days) / 0.6 FTE
Salary: £24,637 FTE (pro-rated)
Applications close: Friday 5th September 2025 at 12pm
Interview date: Friday 12th September 2025
Isle of Wight Youth Trust
Here at the Youth Trust, we offer a range of support for children, young people and their families. The majority of our work is concerned with providing a professional one-to-one counselling service. We also offer group work and increasingly training and other early-intervention opportunities. There are many reasons why a young person might wish to come to counselling, which means that we see a wide range of issues. Whatever the reason you're reaching out, we are here to help.
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