Apprentice Participation Worker

Role Responsibility

A Kent County Council Apprenticeship will give you the opportunity to earn a real salary and gain a real qualification whilst gaining valuable workplace skills and experience.

An opportunity has arisen for an Apprentice to join the Virtual School Kent’s Participation Team within Integrated Children’s Services.

This is a great opportunity to gain a level 3 qualification in Public Service Operational Delivery whilst working as an Apprentice in a large, diverse, rapidly changing organisation.

The Virtual School Kent has responsibilities for the education of Children in Care, Care Leavers, Adopted Children as well as Children and Young People with a social worker. Their Participation Team works to help ensure that the views and opinions of these young people and those who have left care are heard and are taken in consideration.

You would be helping to run our activity days, meetings and events, and other county and local initiatives, supporting young people to achieve positive outcomes for other children and young people..
 
This role requires an organised and caring individual with good communication skills, who enjoys interacting with children and young people.

We are looking for someone with the right attitude who is motivated and keen to learn quickly. If this sounds like you, then we would like to encourage you to apply. 

The successful candidate will have a good understanding and/or personal experience of the care system or involvement with Children’s Services.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Interviews due to take place: Wednesday 24th September 2025 at Worrall House, 30 Kings Hill Avenue, West Malling Kent ME19 4AE

Contact Details

For further details please contact:

Ms Andrea Wood - 03000 422544 or email andrea.wood@kent.gov.uk or Ms Sarah Newman - 03000 422558 or email sarah.newman@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.