Are you passionate about supporting vulnerable young people to overcome adversity and achieve their potential? Do you have the ability to build trusted relationships with young people facing complex challenges and help them make positive changes in their lives?
If so, St Giles Trust is looking for a Keyworker to join the multi-agency Power2 Team in Wolverhampton, delivering intensive mentoring and support to children and young people aged who have experienced trauma, exploitation, instability, or other significant vulnerabilities.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About the Service
The Power2 Team is a multi-agency, multidisciplinary service that brings together specialist professionals to support children and young people who are at risk of exploitation, serious youth violence, criminal involvement and other harmful outcomes.
Using trauma-informed, strengths-based and relational approaches, the team works closely with young people, families, communities and partner agencies to improve wellbeing, increase resilience and create safer futures.
About this key role
You will provide intensive one-to-one mentoring and group-based interventions to vulnerable and at-risk young people, helping them to identify and achieve positive goals while reducing the risks they face.
Working as part of a collaborative multi-agency team, you will build trusting relationships with young people and their families, coordinate support, and ensure that the voice of the child remains central to all interventions.
You will:
* Deliver trauma-informed mentoring, group work and targeted interventions that support young people to build resilience, confidence and positive aspirations
* Develop and deliver individual support plans using strengths-based and restorative approaches
* Work closely with families and partner agencies to coordinate effective support
* Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns and risks relating to exploitation, serious youth violence and criminal activity
* Support young people to engage with education, training, employment and community opportunities
* Maintain accurate records and contribute to monitoring and evaluation activities
* Promote the voice, choice and participation of young people in decisions affecting their lives
What we are looking for
* Personal lived experiences similar to those of the target client group
* Experience of engaging positively with young people and families
* Experience delivering one-to-one support, mentoring or advocacy
* Experience facilitating group work and structured interventions
* Ability to build trust with individuals who may be reluctant to engage or have complex needs
* Knowledge of child criminal exploitation, county lines, gang involvement and grooming
* Understanding of trauma-informed practice and safeguarding
* Ability to assess risk and implement appropriate interventions
* Strong communication, relationship-building and organisational skills
* Experience working with partner agencies and multi-disciplinary teams
* Ability to maintain accurate records and work towards targets
As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients. An Enhanced DBS Check with children s barred list is required for this Role-But there is not an expectation it will be clean - St Giles employs many people with convictions.
We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group to apply for this role.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
Closing date: 26 June 2026 at 9am.