Careers & NEET Prevention Advisor

Careers & NEET Prevention Adviser.
Hours: 37 per week.
Salary: Grade 8 (£33,024 - £35,745).

This is Temporary post till 31 August 2025.

Are you looking for the next challenge?

Do you want to be part of a new and exciting service focused on providing outstanding services for Children and Families?

Have you got the skills and experiences to make positive change happen?

If the answer is ‘yes’ then we would like you to be part of our team.

The Connexions Service in Dudley supports young people through their transition to adult life and focussing on their progression to education, employment or training. The service is targeted at those most at risk of becoming NEET and those who are NEET.

The service also provides careers information, advice, guidance, and support to young people 13-19 up to 25 for those young people with special educational needs or disabilities] to help them make informed choices about learning, employment and training and has a statutory responsibility to support the participation in learning of all young people until their 18th birthday.

 Primary vulnerable group include children looked after and care experienced, young people with SEND, young offenders, teenage parents and homeless. The service works with the young people to help them to identify and assess the impact of the barriers to their progression and uses solution focussed interventions to enable young people achieve their potential. 

 We are looking for a creative, flexible, and highly organised individual who has experience of engaging with and supporting young people. Ideally you should be level 3 qualified in Advice and Guidance, Youth work or a similar field. Equally you may have experience in a similar role that involves speaking to young individuals, particularly those who are NEET, or knowledge of working with care-experienced young people.

Working in a range of settings in the community, the NEET Support Worker will manage a caseload of young people and support them to access post school education, employment and training. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; therefore the post is subject to medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check.

For enquiries in relation to this vacancy please contact Mark Barnett on mark.barnett@dudley.gov.uk

So that we can demonstrate Dudley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates. Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application.  

Online application forms will only be accepted for this vacancy, online facilities for jobs are available at public libraries within the Dudley Borough.  

If you require support completing an online or paper application form and or interview techniques, please contact Dudley Adult and Community Learning on 01384 818 143 or acl@dudley.gov.uk  who can support with Digital Skills and Job Applications.  

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If the WM Jobs Help Page does not resolve your issue then please contact the HR Resourcing Team via HR.Resourcing@dudley.gov.uk 

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N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications

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Attached documents
Careers & Prevention Adviser CHILD298 JD - 1799 (Feb 24).doc
Careers & NEET Prevention Adviser CHILD298 PS - 1799 - Person Specification (Feb 24).doc
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