Meet - The You Trust
Working for The YOU Trust means being part of a compassionate team dedicated to transforming lives. Since 1985, the YOU Trust has been a charity that empowers individuals to thrive within their communities. Every day, you’ll make a meaningful difference by helping to create safe, supportive environments where people can grow in confidence, live independently, and build safer, more fulfilling futures. Our apprenticeship programmes are an amazing opportunity for ambitious and passionate individuals to gain new knowledge and skills. Why not fall in love with a new and exciting career?
Skills we look for
What makes us a great employer
Our Values
The YOU trust has a strong value base, putting people at the heart of everything we do. Our values include:
- Being person-centred
- Innovative
- Trustworthy
It is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.
Our benefits
The key benefits of working with The YOU trust are:
- Competitive rates of pay, including weekend enhancements.
- Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
- Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
- Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites through the use of a Blue Light card.
Training and progression opportunities
Learning and development are an important part of our charity culture. The YOU Trust offers excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes and real opportunities to develop in your profession.
We encourage our teams to explore their careers with us because development is a healthy and constructive activity! You’ll find all kinds of learning opportunities on offer.
Working with us means there’ll always be new challenges to take on or something new to learn.
We are proud of our team
Our team have shared experiences of their time working at The YOU Trust and we are delighted with their comments.
To read their views, please visit Testimonials – The You Trust
Apprenticeships Details
Our apprenticeships
At the YOU Trust, we have a well-established and successful apprentice programme that offers nationally recognised qualifications. Not only will you earn whilst you learn, but you will work as part of a team, gaining experience through on-the-job learning to help you build the range of skills and knowledge needed to deliver the best support for those we work with. Our services include:
- Care and Support
- Paragon
- Young Lives
- Counselling
- Wellbeing
Across our services, we offer apprenticeships in:
- Health and Social Care
- Marketing
- IT
- Business Admin
- HR
If you would like more information about our apprenticeship programme, please email our People and Learning team at: [email protected]
Training providers
We work with external training providers. You will undertake a full training programme and have support from the training provider, your manager, the internal learning and development team, plus all apprentices have a coach to help you complete your apprenticeship.
Entry Requirements
Depending on the apprenticeship you are applying for will depend on the entry requirements. Some of our programmes have no entry requirements, while others do have minimum requirements.
The YOU Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.