Are you passionate about supporting young people – Universal Youth Services needs you!

We are community based enabling youth provision to be directly delivered in communities. Youth voice is at our core ensuring we deliver services to young people that are relevant to their needs.

We provide accessible, inclusive, and high‑quality youth work for all young people in Sheffield, enabling them to thrive, develop their skills, confidence and participate meaningfully in their communities.

We deliver safe, ambitious, creative and high energy youth work to young people. We utilise a variety of engagement methods to affect change and add social value to the personal and social growth and development of young people. We make use of social community infrastructure to serve in the best interest of young people, promoting contextual safeguarding and alertness and to ensure active promotion of these spaces and establish trusted adults.

Sheffield is committed to providing an outstanding offer outside formal education providing consistent professional guidance, advice and support to enable our young people to thrive.

The role of sessional youth worker is a great opportunity if you are wanting to start your career as a youth worker, if you want to give back to your community and/or if you are passionate about working with like minded individuals and the amazing young people of Sheffield, this is the role for you.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.