SfYP Employment & Training Adviser

Job Title: SfYP Employment Training Adviser
Starting Salary: £31,537 progressing to £34,434 per annum - pay award pending
Hours: 37
Location: Watford Three Rivers & Hertsmere Area
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Children's Services

About the team

Hertfordshire Services for Young People provides informal education / youth work, careers education information advice guidance, work related learning, work experience and the review and maintenance of education health and care plans for young people post-16 / post school.

Our vision is clear. We want young people to succeed. By joining us, you will play a vital role in helping them overcome challenges, build confidence, and achieve positive futures.

We work with vulnerable young people to address emerging needs, improve life chances, and reduce escalation to more expensive and intensive services. This includes supporting those challenged in education, their community or home life, to ensure a successful transition to adulthood. The young people are typically 11-17 and up to 25 for Care Leavers and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

About the role

What’s involved in the role?

• Employment, training, and work-related learning activities support to young people.
• Job and work experience brokering.
• Support young people to enhance their employability skills.
• Undertake health and safety assessments within workplaces.
• Work face to face delivering at young people’s centres providing a range of support.

This is a varied role working as part of a team and will include direct contact with local employers to source a range of work-related opportunities for clients and after appropriate training, carry out Health & Safety checks with employers to support work experience placements.

You will work with a caseload of young people who are not in employment, education or training providing employment and training opportunities through job brokering and marketing vacancies. You will enhance the employability skills of young people by offering a range of services to include CV writing and interview preparation.

This is a varied role working as part of a team and will include direct contact with local employers to source a range of work-related opportunities for clients and after appropriate training, carry out Health & Safety checks with employers to support work experience placements.

About you

Essential:

• Full UK driving licence with regular access to a vehicle.
• The ability to travel independently around the county.
• The ability to work flexibly as Service needs require.
• Excellent verbal, written and ICT skills
• The ability to build professional relationships young people.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time and availability effectively.
• The ability to support team activities and contribute to the wider service.
• An understanding of the issues facing young people who are unemployed and be able to demonstrate how you have effectively challenged stereotyping or other discriminatory practice.

Desirable

• Be able to demonstrate experience of building relationships and networking with employers.
• The ability to a build rapport with young people and evidence of working with them individually and in small groups.
• An understanding of the issues facing young people who are unemployed and be able to demonstrate how you have effectively challenged stereotyping or other discriminatory practice.
• Ability to work in a varied role working as part of a team
• Be proactive and have the ability to advocate and negotiate.
• Experience in networking with local employers and promoting employment services.
• Ability to use social media and online platforms, such as LinkedIn and the Hertfordshire Opportunities Portal (H.O.P), to support clients.
• Relevant qualifications in careers education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG), youth work, or a related field.
• Have a proactive approach and the ability to advocate and negotiate.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is Level 8. Please locate the job profile here:

Job profiles - Community services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Kips Green (Kips.Green@hertfordshire.gov.uk)

Interview Date: 5th August 2026

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

We are changing
Hertfordshire County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.

LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.