Youth worker – social prescriber – dorset

Role Terms

Salary: Band C - £26,167 to £28,031 (FTE, pro-rata for part time)

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday-Friday

Role type: Permanent

Place of work: Dorset Hospitals (1 day), Hybrid Remote Working (4 days) and No Limits Head Office (Southampton - for training/monthly meeting)

Role Screening: Enhanced DBS - Child and Adult Barred List

Essential Driver? Yes

Closing Date: 9am, Tuesday 23rd June, 2026 (We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received)

Interview Date: Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th June, 2026

Your Role

Our growing team of Youth Workers are caring, collaborative and courageous professionals, committed to empowering children and young people to achieve positive changes in their lives. Our unique service delivery model aims to support all children and young people who have attended ED in crisis, whether that is through violent crime, substance use or mental health crisis. The successful applicant will provide direct support to children and young people aged 11-25yrs by helping them to connect with specialist support and other community services through 1-2-1 Social Prescribing and brief interventions. To apply for this post, you must have a passion for supporting children and young people, be a strong communicator and have experience of working with children and young people aged 11-25yrs.

As a Youth Worker - Social Prescriber - DORSET, you will provide information, advice, and guidance to children, young people and their families, who previously attended the emergency department and were identified as requiring ongoing support from No Limits upon discharge. Community-based social prescribing will be optimised to help the young person connect with ongoing support over a set period of time.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Engage and build relationships with any children and young people who may need advice and support to avoid further hospital admissions.
• Work closely with the No Limits Emergency Department (ED) youth workers (Bournemouth and Poole) to support their frequent attenders and to build an integrated pathway for children and young people’s crisis care in the community.
• Work with the young person to provide appropriate support and advice as well as signposting and referring into community-based interventions around the issues that brought them to ED. This may include mental health, self-harm, overdose, substance misuse, being a perpetrator or victim of crime or engaging in risk‑taking behaviour.
• Working within the YIACS model address the wider practical and social issues that may be affecting a young person's wellbeing such as relationships, healthy behaviours, sexual health, housing, benefits, attendance and attainment in education.
• Providing a No Limits triage service for children and young people who have been referred into the service.
• Use appropriate tools to measure children and young people’s wellbeing at set points along their journey with No Limits.
• Use this data along with feedback and observation to evidence the impact of interventions.
• With the Operations Manager, develop and maintain a Directory of Services (DOS) and key relationships with partner agencies in the local area to ensure provision is seamless across Dorset.
• Provide quality up to date information, advice and support which supports young people’s personal and social development and promotes healthy lifestyles.

We are committed to making a difference in the lives of the children and young people we work with, and as such, you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the No Limits ethos. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is paramount.

As part of our team, you’ll receive a comprehensive induction and access to learning and development opportunities relevant to your role, supporting your ongoing growth.

You’ll have the essentials of:

• Build trusting and supportive relationships with children and young people
• Respect and promote children and young people’s rights to make their own decisions and choices
• Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults

You may also have:

• Experience in working with children and young people aged 11-25yrs and/or a minimum Level 3 (or equivalent) youth work or other relevant qualification
• Effective communication, organisational and time management skills
• Confident and able to use Microsoft apps, such as Word, Teams and Excel, and databases
• Working proactively and collaboratively with others; reflecting creativity, adaptability and bringing positivity and enthusiasm to your work
• Commitment to personal growth, and ongoing learning and development

Our Charity

No Limits is the leading youth services charity in Southampton, supporting children and young people in the city and across Hampshire.

At No Limits, it is important our staff and volunteers reflect, represent, and have experience of the challenges faced by the children and young people we support. We are proud of and appreciate our many staff and volunteers who use their own lived experience to support the children and young people they work with.

With this in mind, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in all aspects of our work and organisational culture – and when recruiting, it’s important to us that we continue diversifying our staff and volunteer teams, with children and young people at the centre of everything we do. We can learn more about our DEI approach here.

When we talk about talent, we value the transferrable skills and experiences you can bring to No Limits, whether through work (in the same or a different sector), volunteering, or personal experiences. To make sure we get the best talent on our team, we are open to and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of the community, including diverse ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodiverse individuals.

Our Benefits

We are committed to being a great place to work, where people achieve and feel valued. In our People Survey, 98% of staff and 100% of volunteers said they were proud to tell people they work or volunteer for No Limits. We’re proud to offer some great benefits, on top of being able to make a meaningful contribution to the lives of local children and young people:

• 36 days annual leave (including public holidays)
• Two additional wellbeing days per year – Supporting you to take additional time off for your wellbeing or development.
• Pension scheme – Supporting your future by matching your additional pension contributions up to 2%.
• Life assurance scheme – Giving you peace of mind with 2x annual salary cover for pension members.
• Hybrid and flexible working – Giving the flexibility to work in the best way for your role.
• Comprehensive induction and training offer – Including our online learning management system with hundreds of opportunities to support your development.
• Employee Assistance Programme – Providing you with counselling, financial, personal support and health and wellbeing services.