Children's Activities and Engagement Coordinator

3 months ago


Wiltshire, United Kingdom Park Blue Homes Ltd Full time

**Children's Activities and Engagement Coordinator**

**About the Role**

As an Children's Activities and Engagement Coordinator, you will be key in helping our young people with EBD and learning difficulties engage in a wide range of fulfilling and exciting activities.

**What would I be doing?**
- Producing weekly activity planners for each child considering fun, educational, therapeutic, and adventurous activities. These will be organised for the activities to be supported by the child’s staff team or directly with the activities coordinator.
- Monitoring the level of engagement by staff and children in adhering to the activity planner, identifying areas that children are finding difficult and reporting back to the therapeutic and operations team.
- To plan and engage the young people in a wide range of innovative and exciting physical and recreational activities held within the home and externally (this could involve group activities, individual activities, rock climbing, kayaking, horse riding, paddleboarding, fishing etc).
- To build and maintain positive relationships with the young people that may find it hard to engage and who will present a wide range of complex needs and behaviours, offering them a passionate and enthusiastic support to engage in more adventurous activities.
- To support with building confidence within the young people at Park Blue Homes and supporting them to reach their full potential.
- Maintaining accurate and clear records and reports
- To support in organising external partners from the wider community to provide specialised activities
- Organising creative ways to get our children moving and engaging within the home and within the wider community.

**What experience or qualifications would I need?**
- A genuine passion for supporting young people within the care sector.
- A strong team player
- A passion and enthusiasm for the outdoor world and working with children.
- Resilience to keep going at difficult times and to feel confident in asking for support when needed
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- A driving licence.
- Experience working alongside children with challenging behaviour.
- Sports Coach or Activities Coordinator experience
- Adventure Training or Therapy Experience would be an asset.
- Enthusiastic with skills in activity planning and outdoor pursuits.

**What would I get in return?**
- A competitive salary or £25,000 - £27,000 per annum working a 40-hour week. (Negotiable)
- Overtime available
- Extensive training packages with time rostered out of your work rota to attend.
- Pension
- Staff meals whilst on shift
- Budgets to plan and arrange off-site activities and trips for the young people.
- Beautiful homes and grounds to work within
- Enrolment onto the Level 4 Children, Young People and Families Practitioner NVQ
- Career development opportunities

**What benefits would I get from working at Park Blue Homes**:

- Full attendance/sickness bonus £500 per annum
- Referral scheme - £350 If you refer a friend and they pass their probationary period.
- Day off for your birthday
- Long service salary reviews every two years.
- Takeaway night for new starters
- Enrolment onto Perkbox

**Shift Pattern**:
Hours are 40 per week. Working days are between Monday to Sunday. Working hours will fall between 9am - 8pm. Hours during the week when the young people are at school will differ, but this will be discussed during interview.

The working hours are built around planned activities with the young people. If there are planned activities for the young people on a Saturday or a Sunday, this will reduce the number of days worked within the week.

This role does require a level of flexibility to support the needs of the young people and the activities planned. This may include overnight stays to accommodate certain activities.

**Due to registration requirements, applicants must be 21 or over.**

**About Park Blue Homes**:
Park Blue Homes are a group of independent Residential Children’s Homes, with five homes in Wiltshire and two in Country Durham.

Park Blue Homes strives to provide exciting places for young people to live. Our teams are important to us, and we aim to recruit highly skilled and committed people that want to grow in their positions to help our young people.

Park Blue Homes is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children, and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Park Blue Homes is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all.

All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check.

Park Blue Homes is an equal opportunities employer.

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Loyalty bonus
- Performance bonus

Application question(s):

- Are you over the age of 21?
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