Youth and Community Practitioner

• Inspire
• Address:Lindbergh Road Ipswich Suffolk IP3 9QX
• Salary:23810 - 26444 per annum
• Hours:37.5 hours per week
• Contract:Permanent required as soon as possible
• Reference:0525

Inspireare seeking a Youth and Community Practitionerto work as part of a frontline team to deliver quality work which engages young people through informal learning opportunities that provide support direction and empower participants to achieve their potential.

This role requires you to work across schools and local settings including open-access sessions one to one support group work in schools detached work and holiday programmes.

You will build purposeful trusting relationships with young people supporting their social emotional physical and educational development while helping them set goals and access the right support.

You will lead on creating safe engaging opportunities that enable young people to influence decisions develop skills and take an active role in their community.

You will work to clear programme targets uphold professional standards and safeguarding requirements and maintain strong partnerships with families schools and local organisations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• delivering youth and community work sessions (e.g. drop-ins mobile work 1-to-1s assemblies) including our holiday club programmes (our commitment to youth voice throughout our programmes means this role will include evening work and possible weekends)
• providing individual mentoring and support in schools and community setting
• helping young people set and work towards appropriate goals
• supporting young peoples social emotional physical and educational development building their skills confidence and decision-making abilities
• empowering and signposting young people through one-to-one and group work helping them overcome challenges and access additional support
• planning and taking part in community projects and programmes that enable young people to express themselves raise concerns and explore future options
• championing youth voices ensuring young people influence decision-making programme delivery and opportunities for leadership
• building and maintaining strong local networks acting as a key point of contact for young people families partners and community organisations
• ensuring safe high-quality delivery including managing behaviour maintaining resources recording data supervising staff and volunteers and following safeguarding health and safety and data protection guidelines.

We will offer you:

Join our fantastic Team and enjoy a range of benefits to enhance your own well-being improve your work-life balance and most importantly make a difference to the lives of the young people we work with.

Our benefits include:

• An extra day of annual leave for each year of dedicated service
• A competitive salary that recognises your skills and dedication
• Free spaces for your dependents at our holiday clubs providing peace of mind for working parents
• Free car parking at our centres for easy access to the workplace
• And most importantly youll be making a real difference every day

How to apply

Please submit your CV and covering letter to Jackie Partridge Head of Services by email at .

Closing date:1pm 2 January 2026.

We review every application carefully and if we consider your profile a good match we will contact you to invite you to take part in the interview process. The first part of the interview process will be a telephone interview and the second part of the process will be in the form of a formal interview.

Shortlisting and interviews will take place while the advertisement is live which may mean the position is closed early if suitable candidates are found.

We believe in equality diversity and inclusion. We are committed to welcoming respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals learning from their differences embracing their uniqueness and providing a positive workplace for all.

Inspire is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.