**CVs AND EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. PLEASE VISIT NO LIMITS WEBSITE FOR FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND TO COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FOR THIS ROLE**
✨ Are you passionate about helping to make a difference to children and young people? ✨
Role terms
Salary: Band C - £26,167.79 to £28,031.00 (pro-rata for part-time).
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract Type: Permanent
Place of work: Dorset Hospitals (1 day), Hybrid Remote Working (4 days) and No Limits Head Office (Southampton – for training/monthly meeting).
Essential car user: Yes
Closing Date: 9am on Tuesday 23rd June 2026
Interview Date: Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th June 2026
The Team
Our growing team of Youth Workers are caring, collaborative and courageous professionals, committed to empowering children and young people to achieve positive changes in their lives. Our unique service delivery model aims to support all children and young people who have attended ED in crisis, whether that is through violent crime, substance use or mental health crisis. The successful applicant will provide direct support to children and young people aged 11-25yrs by helping them to connect with specialist support and other community services through 1-2-1 Social Prescribing and brief interventions. To apply for this post, you must have a passion for supporting children and young people, be a strong communicator and have experience of working with children and young people aged 11-25yrs.
Your Role
As a Youth Worker - Social Prescriber - DORSET, you will provide information, advice, and guidance to children, young people and their families, who previously attended the emergency department and were identified as requiring ongoing support from No Limits upon discharge. Community-based social prescribing will be optimised to help the young person connect with ongoing support over a set period of time.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Engage and build relationships with any children and young people to avoid further hospital admissions.
- Work closely with the No Limits Emergency Department (ED) youth workers (Bournemouth and Poole) to build an integrated pathway
- Work with the young person to provide appropriate support and advice as well as signposting and referring into community-based interventions around the issues that brought them to ED.
- Working within the YIACS model address the wider practical and social issues that may be affecting a young person's wellbeing
- Providing a No Limits triage service for children and young people who have been referred into the service.
- Use appropriate tools to measure children and young people’s wellbeing at set points along their journey with No Limits.
- Use this data along with feedback and observation to evidence the impact of interventions.
- With the Operations Manager, develop and maintain a Directory of Services (DOS) and key relationships with partner agencies in the local area to ensure provision is seamless across Dorset.
- Provide quality up to date information, advice and support which supports young people’s personal and social development and promotes healthy lifestyles.
Please see the job description for further details about the responsibilities of the role.
We are committed to making a difference in the lives of the children and young people we work with, and as such, you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the No Limits ethos. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is paramount.
We particularly welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and those who have had experiences similar to the young people we aim to support. We are committed to creating a diverse environment where people can be their authentic selves, where their experiences and opinions are valued, and we are all open to learning from each other.
As part of our team, you’ll receive a comprehensive induction and access to learning and development opportunities relevant to your role, supporting your ongoing growth.
You'll have the essentials of:
- Build trusting and supportive relationships with children and young people
- Respect and promote children and young people’s rights to make their own decisions and choices
- Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults
You may also have:
- Experience in working with children and young people aged 11-25yrs and / or a minimum Level 3 (or equivalent) youth work or other relevant qualification
- Effective communication, organisational and time management skills
- Confident and able to use Microsoft apps, such as Word, Teams and Excel, and databases
- Working proactively and collaboratively with others; reflecting creativity, adaptability and bringing positivity and enthusiasm to your work
- Commitment to personal growth, and ongoing learning and development
About No Limits
No Limits is the leading youth services charity in Southampton, supporting children and young people in the city and across Hampshire.
At No Limits, it is important our staff and volunteers reflect, represent and have experience of the challenges faced by the children and young people we support. We are proud and appreciate our many staff and volunteers who use their own lived experience to support the children and young people they work with.
With this in mind, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our work and organisational culture – and when recruiting, it’s important to us that we continue diversifying our staff and volunteer teams, with children and young people at the centre of everything we do.
When we talk about talent, we value the transferrable skills and experiences you can bring to No Limits, which can be through work (in the same or a different sector), volunteering or personal experiences. To make sure we get the best talent on our team, we are open to and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of the community, including diverse ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, disabled and neurodiverse.
If invited to interview, please let us know if we can support you at interview with any reasonable adjustments, such as flexible working, access arrangements or a suitable place to pray.
Staff Benefits
We are committed to being a great place to work, where people achieve and feel valued. In our People Survey, 98% of staff and 100% of volunteers said they were proud to tell people they work or volunteer for No Limits. We’re proud to offer some great benefits, on top of being able to make a meaningful contribution to the lives of local children and young people:
- 36 days annual leave (including public holidays).
- Two additional wellbeing days per year - Supporting you to take additional time off for your wellbeing or development.
- Pension scheme - Supporting your future by matching your additional pension contributions up to 2%.
- Life assurance scheme - Giving you peace of mind with 2x annual salary cover for pension members.
- Hybrid and flexible working - Giving the flexibility to work in the best way for your role.
- Comprehensive induction and training offer - Including our online learning management system with hundreds of opportunities to support your development.
- Employee Assistance Programme - Providing you with counselling, financial, personal support and health and wellbeing services.
Please let us know if we can support you with any reasonable adjustments at any point prior to, during or after the selection process, such as access arrangements, flexible working, or a suitable place to pray.
Interested......? We'd love to hear from you!
We’d be happy to have an informal discussion and answer any immediate questions you might have. If you’d like an initial discussion, please contact Charlotte Tommans-Porter who is the Operations Manager for this service on [email protected]
To apply, please complete an application form (see link above) and upload using the portal below, before the closing date of Tuesday 23rd June 2026. Please contact [email protected] if you need your application in an alternative format.
In the ‘Your Supporting Statement’ section of the application form, please include how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the ‘About you – knowledge, skills and experience’ section of the role description: link to job description
Please note that as we follow safer recruitment guidelines, we do not accept CVs and will only accept fully completed applications.
Pay: £26,167.79-£28,031.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
