Youth Employment Officer

The main purpose of this job is to deliver contracts for Education Business Partnership, Cornwall Council and proactively identify and develop additional opportunities for collaborative initiatives between the business sector and education.

This role is centred on empowering economically inactive individuals to enable their integration into mainstream employment and training opportunities.

The Youth Employment Officer role is to work with employers and business networks to identify and create employment and work placement opportunities to support people who are unemployed and at risk of long term unemployment. 

This role holder will seek out and develop other opportunities for joint business and education work to the benefit of the participants across the project.  The role holder needs to be committed to facilitating employment, education and training opportunities for people for whom Health Conditions, Special Educational Needs (SEND) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) issues present a barrier to employment.  The role holder will be required to provide in-work support for the first few weeks of work to enable young people to settle in to their new roles and ensure sustainable employment.

You will work closely with the wider Education Business Partnership team and other services within Cornwall Council Education to ensure work is complimentary, co-ordinated and not duplicated.

This role is government funded until March 2025.

This position will be subject to a criminal record disclosure check. 

Whilst the location/work-base for this role may have been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g., from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process. 

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options. 

How To Apply 

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Your application will need to demonstrate how you meet the required criteria on the role profile marked ‘application form'. Please view the role profile here. Please ensure you answer all the pre-screening questions in full, within the application form. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process

Please be advised that for this role we are accepting uploaded supporting statements and/or CVs to support your online application. 

About Us 

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Find out about working and volunteering for us. 

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.  

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.