Children’s Services Co-ordinator

6 months ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Autism Bedfordshire Full time

**Children’s Services Co-Ordinator**

**Location**: Countywide; Bedfordshire, administrative base at Head Office, Bedford.

**Salary**: £22,300 - £27,790

**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week

**Accountable to**: Board of Trustees

**Line Manager**:Service Manager

**Reporting staff**:Assistant Development Officers, Senior Team Leaders, Team Leaders, Support Workers and Volunteers

**Job Summary**:
The post holder will facilitate and develop services for autistic children and young people and their families across Bedfordshire. The post involves a significant level of staff / volunteer recruitment and management in order to deliver services.

The post also requires a considerable amount of organisational skills and multi-tasking to ensure that the services run smoothly and are clearly communicated to our current and prospective members.

The Children’s Services Co-Ordinator will work as part of a team, which provides and continues to development a range of services countywide in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough.

**MAIN TASKS**:

- To oversee and organisethe social activity programs for children and young people. We currently run the following projects:
- Summer Activity Schemes in Bedford and Luton
- Loads of Autistic Fun (L.O.A.F) - 4 Family activity groups held at Bedford, Biggleswade, Leighton Buzzard and Luton on Saturdays.
- Wanted Fun Groups - 4 youth groups held in Bedford, Leighton Buzzard, Luton and Biggleswade.
- Additional Services - additional social & leisure opportunities across the county
- Skills 4 Success - A social skills programme for 16-19 year olds

In order to run these groups and activities the post holder will need to:

- Recruit staff and volunteers to run the schemes, following a process that includes conducting interviews, DBS checks and ensuring references and received.
- To meet with the LOAF, Wanted Fun and Summer Scheme leaders, to plan, develop and evaluate sessions. This includes ensuring that all registers and other paperwork are updated and available for each session, as well as supporting field staff through supervisions and regular meetings.
- Assist with the organisation of training for field staff. This may involve helping to deliver particular topic areas to staff, and also booking in outside agencies.
- Support the field staff out of hours, where appropriate, on a needs-led basis
- To visit groups and services, where appropriate. Some evenings and weekends will be required across the year.
- Book activities and venues, confirming dates/times with staff and families. This includes summer schemes, term-time groups and additional services.
- Update the site files for each programme, to ensure that we are adhering to Ofsted and Autism Bedfordshire good practice guidelines.
- Line manage the deliver of summer scheme, this will be the first three weeks of the summer holidays
- Conduct risk assessments to ensure safety within services run
- Undertake relevant Safeguarding training to assist the Designated Safeguarding Leads.
- Identify changes or needs within existing service and feedback to the Children’s Services Manager.
- Work closely with the Finance Dept to: - ensure that staff payments and volunteer expenses are efficiently handled; that family payments are made for the services.
- Attend the schemes to support the Team Leaders and ensure that all is working well.
- Work closely with the Funding Team and Children’s Services Manager to evaluate and review the programmes - to provide up to date information on services and compile reports. In addition, change and improve the way we provide services based on these evaluations.
- Form positive relationships with other wider Autism Bedfordshire teams to ensure services are run successfully through good communication.

**Helpline** (We receive on average 50 calls a month on a wide range of issues such as diagnosis, education and behaviour difficulties), this role includes:

- Listening to the caller, providing information and signposting.
- Record all helpline correspondence accurately for monitoring and evaluating.
- Ensuring that any new information for parents is recorded and entered onto the helpline database, Website and Newsletters.
- Liaising with other agencies and practitioner to help support the family.
- With consent from the families, feeding back to the statutory authorities about the needs of the families we support.

**Newsletters, Website and Social Media. **Grapevine is the Children’s Services e-newsletter which is managed within the team and shares information on local services. Pathway is the Autism Bedfordshire newsletter which is compiled and edited by the Administrator. All office staff provide information for this newsletter.

**Organize events for parents/carers and associated professionals. **We provide several training events each year, to inform and update parents/carers on a variety of topics. The post holder would be required to book and arrange venues, speakers, ad


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