Job Title - Youth Worker (School Transitions)
Contract - July 2026 to 15th May 2027
Hours - hours per week
Salary - £8, per annum (£27, FTE) including London Weighting
Location - Westminster, London
About Coram
Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UKs most vulnerable children and young people.
We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.
Coram is the UKs oldest childrens charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.
Coram Family Lives is part of the Coram group.
About the role
We are looking for a community-based Youth Worker to build trusting, supportive, and collaborative relationships with vulnerable young people aged 1012, particularly those with SEND or from low-income households, who are transitioning from Years 5 and 6 into secondary school. The Youth Worker will identify and address potential risk factors that may impact a young persons successful transition to secondary school, as well as their overall wellbeing, confidence, and engagement.
The successful candidate will provide support to build the young persons skills, confidence and resilience during this critical period and to engage positively at their new secondary school. This will include the delivery of targeted programmes, activities and 1:1 interventions that address the specific challenges faced by young people including bullying, social isolation, special needs, academic pressures or mental health issues. The support will be delivered in person within a variety of settings including Faith based groups, schools and youth centres. This post will also work closely with our Community Safety Champions project.
You will have the ability to build rapport with young people and engaging them in activities leading to empowerment and raising aspirations.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing Date: Sunday 7th June 2026 at midnight
Interview Date: Week commencing the 15th June 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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