Job title and organisation: PATH Trainee - Youth Justice Worker - Leeds Youth Justice Service
Salary: £17,500 (Training allowance. Nontaxable)
Hours: Full time 
Contract: Traineeship 
Location: Leeds 
Closing Date and Time: Sunday 11 November 2025 

A great opportunity has arisen to undertake a PATH Traineeship with Leeds Youth Justice Service. The ‘PATH Yorkshire Internship training programme’ is a Positive Action Training Project with the objective of addressing the under-representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. Applicants for the traineeship must be from BAME backgrounds.

Leeds Youth Justice Service work with children aged 10 to 17 years who have offended and help to prevent them getting into further trouble. Our role with children can be on a statutory or non-statutory basis. The Youth Justice Service also work with a variety of organisations, parents and carers:

Responsibilities:

To provide services to a wide range of children who offend or who are at risk of offending. 

To plan, develop, co-ordinate and deliver programmes of focused work to young people on a group and individual basis, including those subject to intensive supervision.

To work with the families of children who offend to improve outcomes for the family.

To work in a restorative manner with children and their families, with high challenge and high support

To work in an anti-oppressive manner, promoting equality and ensuring that diversity issues are addressed.

To take account of the views and interests of victims and the wider community

Support children to build on their strengths.

Working Hours = 37 hours weekly

Traineeship = 12 months placement

Allowance = £17.500 (tax free)

Qualifications = None required

Application form and further information on the Youth Justice Worker role click here

Closing date for applications –

1st December 2025

Interviews – 8th January 2026

The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.

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