Sport & Recreational Activity Coach

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Midland Mencap Full time

Job Description and Person Specification

**Job Title**: Sport & Recreational Activity Coach
- Community Wellbeing Team

**Salary**: £21,028

**Employment Status**: 37 Hours Per Week

**Responsible To**: Coordinator

**Location**: Weoley Castle Community Centre & Across Birmingham & Walsall

CRITERIA EVIDENCE

**Experience Desirable**
- Experience of supporting children, young people adults with additional needs, using a person-centred approach.
- Experience of working in a community setting and building community links.
- Knowledge of community services

Application

**Essential **Form and
- Experience of facilitating and delivering a range of sporting Interview. recreational wellbeing activities.
- Identifying individualised needs and outcome planning.
- Experience of communicating effectively with stakeholders

(inc: citizens, families/carers, volunteers and partners).

**Skills, Abilities Essential**
**& Attributes**
- The ability to work as part of a team as well as on your own initiative.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.

Application
Form and
- A flexible approach to work.

Interview.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- The ability to plan and manage your own time and prioritise your workload.
- Available to work evenings and weekends

Job Description and Person Specification

**Additional Desirable**
- Experience of working with and supporting volunteers.
- Knowledge of accessible communication methods.
- The ability to design and deliver your won activity sessions. Interview and

Application
Form
- Have relevant sports or coaching qualifications with registered bodies.

**Essential**
- Have a current driving licence with access to own transport

**Who** We Look For
Are you a **warm**, **personable**, and **caring** individual who can motivate and a wide range of people with all abilities?

Do you have **passion** for what you do & **sports and recreational wellbeing**

**activities, **and a strong **communicator** and have excellent **problem-solving** skills?

Midland Mencap is looking to recruit a **Sport & Recreational Activity Coach **to support to citizens to continue to participate in our Community Hub sport and recreational wellbeing programme across Birmingham & Walsall.

We place a high value upon **integrity**, **ethical standards,** and a commitment to

**excellence**.

Midland Mencap’s Community Hub service is constantly evolving in our pursuit of delivering the **best** life outcomes for **everyone** who accesses our services. To achieve these goals, we need individuals who are prepared to **drive progress** and interact

**confidently** with staff, citizens, families, and professionals.

**What** Does A Sport & Recreational Activity

Coach Do?

You will be part of a highly motivated and co-production focused community project, which primarily supports citizens with disabilities and additional needs and their families, to access a wide range of meaningful social, leisure and sport/recreational activities that increases self-confidence, improved health & wellbeing and develops communication and social skills.

In addition to our core citizen group, you will play an enthusiastic part in developing and supporting opportunities to the wider local community, ensuring the service is a well-known and well-regarded place in the community, local citizens can come to for support in a range of key wellbeing outcomes.

Job Description and Person Specification

You will help provide outcome focused, person-centred and citizen led sport and recreational wellbeing activities, which empower citizens to become active members of their community. You will achieve this by assisting with the planning and delivery of a fun and varied activity timetable which will involve both internal and external facilitation, at our bases across Birmingham and at times in Walsall.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Facilitate, and assist in the planning of a wide range of social, leisure and sport/recreational activities and opportunities based on identified need over a 7-day week.
- To follow a person-centred approach when providing activities and support for adults (and their family/carers) with additional needs/disabilities.
- To take the lead for specific tasks as designated by the coordinator.
- To mentor and support new staff during their probationary period.
- Update and maintain online databases and filing systems.
- Collate evidence of impact against personalised and service outcomes.
- Develop positive and trusting relationships with citizens and their families to support them to fully engage in activities and to remain as independent as possible.
- Work with colleagues across Midland Mencap to develop joint activities and opportunities where possible.
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of adults by proactively managing safeguarding principles and practises.
- Attend staff meetings before and after sessions on a planned basis

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