Are you passionate about supporting young people to have a voice? If so, Community Youth Services would love to hear from you!

Based in Sheffield, a vibrant and diverse city, this is an exciting time to join Community Youth Services. We bring together a range of youth engagement services to meet the needs and aspirations of our young residents. Rooted in the ethics and values of high‑quality youth work, we provide safe, creative and inclusive opportunities for young people, placing their voices at the heart of what we do.

Working with partners across the voluntary sector and statutory services, our aim is to provide an outstanding offer outside of formal education so young people can thrive. With anti-discriminatory practice and inclusion central to our approach, we recognise the barriers many young people face and the importance of providing safe spaces, trusted relationships and meaningful opportunities to influence decisions that affect their lives.

About the Role: This is a great opportunity to join the Youth Voice and Influence Service, supporting the development of Sheffield young peoples’ voices across the city. You will support qualified youth workers to ensure that young people are listened to, involved and able to shape services locally, regionally and nationally.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Sessional Youth Worker to assist the Youth Voice & Influence team in planning, organising and delivering face‑to‑face sessions and activities with young people. This will include some evening work (2 max) occasional Saturday and/ or school holiday sessions (7 hours per week)

You do not need to be a professionally qualified youth worker for this role, but you should have:

Experience of working or volunteering with young people (aged 11–25).
An understanding of youth participation and involvement activities.
A passion for supporting young people to share their views and take part in social action.
A commitment to equality, inclusion and creative youth work practice.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the delivery of youth voice and influence activities across the city.
Assist in facilitating group sessions, meetings and events with diverse groups of young people.
Support young people take part in consultations, social action and decision‑making opportunities.
Build positive relationships to encourage regular participation and reduce barriers to involvement.

Our Commitment: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. Any successful candidate will need to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

For informal enquiries, please contact: sarah.stevens@sheffield.gov.uk

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 Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

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.