Hot Chocolate Trust (HCT) is looking for a youth worker who will support young people to reach their full potential through sports and physical activity.

Organisation: Hot Chocolate Trust
Job title: Youth Worker
Contract: Full-time. Two-year contract.
Location: Dundee
Closing date: 6 July, 2026
Salary: £26,162 to £27,398 pa (subject to qualifications/evidenced experience and training)

Hot Chocolate Trust is an innovative and inclusive youth work charity in Dundee city centre. Engaging with approx. 400 young people each year, aged 12-25, they blend responsive, whole-person youth work with specialist resourcing and opportunities (e.g. creative arts, mental health and wellbeing, education and employment, activism) to maximize young people’s participation, agency, and responsibility. Flexible, relationship-based approaches support young people whose lives are unpredictable, even chaotic, and who are often wary of professionals and programmes.

The successful candidate will lead their Stretch project which uses youth work approaches to reinterpret and promote sports and physical activity with young people.

Too many young people miss out on the multiple benefits of regular physical activity. Some say they were put off at school (e.g. by narrow expectations, competitive/bullying culture); some feel excluded culturally (e.g. by gender, identity, or “not sporty”); some can’t afford it; some have nowhere to safely (or with dignity) try things out. You will work across three project strands (Inclusive sports; Mental heath and wellbeing; Games get real) through drop-in youth work, small groups, and individual support.

The deadline for applications is 9am on 6th July.

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