Sport Welfare Coordinator

**Salary**: £29,400 - £32,414. New appointments are typically made at the bottom of the scale.

**Full-time**: 37 hours per week

**Fixed Term Contract **until March 2027.

**Location**: County Durham Sport Offices, however you will be required to travel within County Durham and occasionally regionally. County Durham Sport has a Hybrid Working Policy in place.

Closing date: 9am, Monday 27th November 2023.

County Durham Sport (CDS) is looking for a well organised, flexible and personable individual to join the team.

**About County Durham Sport**

**Our Vision - A Healthy Lifestyle Is An Easy Choice For Everyone**

**Our Mission - Challenging inequalities and changing lives through sport and physical activity**

County Durham Sport is the Sport England funded Active Partnership for the area. An independent company, with charitable status, our role is to support, influence and improve the local delivery system for sport and physical activity and remove the barriers to moving. Ultimately, tackling inequalities is at the core of our work, we influence the system to ensure those people not currently accessing/benefitting from physical activity can get involved.

County Durham Sport has a passionate belief that everyone is able to improve the quality of their life through involvement in sport and physical activity. Our partnership’s ambition is to inspire and connect people and organisations to raise aspiration and remove the barriers to an active and healthy lifestyle and encourage our local system to reflect the needs, aspirations and requirements of the people and communities we serve.

**About the role**:
Within the role, funded by Sport England, you will be responsible for working with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to help improve safeguarding standards and culture in local sports clubs by promoting good practice and safe sport for children, young people and adults in County Durham. The role will add capacity and expertise to the existing safeguarding work of NGBs and the Active Partnership (County Durham Sport).

The Sport Welfare Coordinator will help further understand safeguarding in local clubs e.g. how policies and procedures are implemented and cascaded and will help share good practice to help strengthen the welfare culture within local clubs.

**How to Apply**

Application deadline date: Closing date: 9am, Monday 27th November 2023.

Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing Wednesday 6th December 2023.

**JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION**

POST TITLE**:Sport Welfare Coordinator**

POST GRADE: £29,400 - £32,414 per annum. (depending on depth of experience)

RESPONSIBLE TO: Director of Operations

LOCATION: We operate a hybrid working policy but there will be a requirement to work a minimum of 2 days per week at the County Durham Sport office and other local sports club locations across the county, as required.

**RELEVANT TO THIS POST**:
County Durham Sport’s vision and mission is to remove the barriers to moving by challenging inequalities and changing lives through sport and physical activity.

**PURPOSE**

Responsible for working with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to help improve safeguarding standards and culture in sports clubs by promoting good practice and safe sport for children, young people and adults in County Durham. The role will add capacity and expertise to the existing safeguarding work of NGBs and the Active Partnership (County Durham Sport).

The Sport Welfare Coordinator (SWC) will help further understand safeguarding in local clubs e.g. how policies and procedures are cascaded and help share good practice.

This role will work closely with other Sport Welfare Officers across the national network, National Governing Bodies and wider organisations; to connect people working on welfare and safeguarding, both inside and outside sport.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Promote children, young peole and adult welfare**:
1. Promote safe sport for children, young people, and adults within sports clubs in County Durham, advocating and influencing National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport and sports clubs on the importance of embedding safe practices in club settings.

2. Identify, build and maintain trusted relationships with partners locally that will help to improve safeguarding standards and practices.

**Support Club Welfare Officers**:
1. Develop a comprehensive training and support offer for Club Welfare Officers in County Durham, in line with Sport England / Active Partnership guidance.

2. Connect, link, and broker relevant safeguarding support offers with clubs and NGBs.

3. Train or facilitate training for Club Welfare Officers (prioritising new Club Welfare Officers).

4. Identify NGBs and local clubs most in need to receive support.

5. Provide regular support and quality assurance to prioritised clubs through the provision of support and club visits.

6. Develop a communication plan to effectively communicate with Club Welfare Offi