Youth Worker (Trainee Position) in Hove

Join our award-winning community charity as a Youth Worker – Trainee Position. Do you want to make a real difference for children and young people in the heart of the communities to the West of Brighton and Hove? This is an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning Youth Team at the Hangleton and Knoll Project. We are recruiting a Youth Worker Trainee to train with us to undertake the Level 2 or 3 in Youth Work Principles and be part of developing our new Health and Wellbeing Hub.

This is a rare chance to gain a Youth Work Qualification and practical experience while working in an inclusive, creative, and collaborative service that puts young people at the very heart based at the new Weller Youth Centre in Hove. We have 1 Full time Training Post that is Fixed Term for 1 Year (37 hours per week, including study time). Salary is fixed at £27,269 per annum. You’ll also benefit from a 6% pension contribution (with a 3% employee contribution), 5 weeks of annual leave plus pro-rata bank holidays, and additional leave over Christmas.

You will be enrolled in the NOCN Level 2 or 3 Award in Youth Work Principles (National Open College Network, England). You will undertake this qualification whilst working in placement with the HKP Youth Team delivering our youth work programme. You will learn:

• Theory of Youth Work
• Safeguarding in a Youth Work Setting
• Engaging and Communicating with Young People

You will work flexible hours as a trainee in our service, using your newly developed skills. You will work within the limits of your experience and competence for your stage of training. You will be delivering youth work in a range of community-based sessions and you will receive high-quality supervision and support throughout. The role will involve team working and opportunities for leadership development. The training and service experience will equip you with the necessary knowledge, attitude and capabilities to work as a youth worker professionally.

• Advert closes: 5 pm Friday 20th February 2026
• Interviews: Thursday 5th March, The Downsman, Hangleton

We hope the recruitment pack provides all the information you need, however, if further information is required, please email Oly Lewry at oliver.lewry@hkproject.org.uk. It is particularly important that you read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully, as you will need to show on your application form the skills and experience you have, which meet those required for this post. It is from this information that we will ‘short list’ those to be interviewed – if your application does not reflect the skills and experience that we have said we are looking for, you are unlikely to be interviewed. If there is a Person Specification where skills and experience are split into ‘Essential’ and ‘Desirable’ then it is the applicants who most meet the ‘essential’ requirements who will be interviewed. The ‘desirable’ skills and experience would be very useful in the job and should definitely be included, if you have them, but they are of secondary importance.

HKP are an equal opportunities and safer recruitment employer.

It is the Duty of Care of the Hangleton & Knoll Project to ensure that any children, young people and adults at risk who are participating within our service are safe from harm and exploitation. The protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation and wellbeing of children, young people and adults at risk is a paramount consideration when providing services. The Project aims to provide an environment that ensures people are safe from potential abuse and will respond to any suspicion of potential abuse in a way that respects the person’s dignity and reinforces responsibility to the children and young people and adult at risk.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people with disabilities, and men, as these groups are underrepresented in children and young people’s mental health roles.