Volunteer Co-ordinator

**Volunteer Co-ordinator Vacancy**West Essex Locality - Working across Harlow, Epping Forest and Uttlesford Districts.

**(Salary negotiable within banding)**

**About our service**

The Essex **Child** and **Family** Wellbeing **Service** (ECFWS) brings **together** a range of existing **services**, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System.

The **service**, which is provided by HCRG Care Group in partnership **with** Barnardo's, ensures that **families** continue to have easy access to local **services**, **with** staff able to reach **children** and **families** in the community; whether in one of **our Family** Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a **family**'s home. This flexible and innovative new way of **working** is about providing **services** without walls and ensuring those **families** who need **support** the most are easily reached.

Broad areas of **support** and **service** delivery are:

- **Health** Visiting
- Parenting **Support**:

- School Nursing
- **Family Health**:

- Resilience and **Child** Development
- **Support** for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced Volunteer Co-ordinator to work within our integrated teams. Support the work of the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service through the development of volunteering.

**Volunteer Co-ordinator Role**

Establish, enhance and sustain services through volunteering to meet the project or location needs.
- Recruit and induct volunteers through:

- identifying volunteering opportunities
- promoting and advertising volunteering
- co-ordinating recruitment and selection and retention processes
- implementing organisational safeguard arrangements for screening against undesirable people
- devising and implementing role matching and induction processes
- Manage and develop volunteers by:

- leading, motivating, supervising and deploying volunteers and staff as appropriate
- solving problems during volunteering activity
- identifying and planning to meet individual and group learning and development needs
- maintaining volunteer records
- Provide support to volunteering by:

- encouraging project staff to actively participate in valuing and promoting volunteering
- developing capacity to manage volunteers
- contributing to the maintenance of a healthy safe, and productive working environment
- promoting Barnardo's services
- organising events
- managing the use of equipment and finance
- facilitating meetings
- managing information and knowledge
- reporting and liaising with external agencies
- Promote volunteering by:

- celebrating the contribution of volunteers
- promoting people's equality, diversity and rights
- developing productive relationships with colleagues working in children's services, retail, fundraising and external agencies
- Ensure the implementation of strategies and policies that support volunteering and contribute to new policy.
- Evaluate the contribution of volunteers and volunteering through contributing to reports for internal use and with external funding partners as appropriate.

**Essential requirements for the role**
- Knowledge and understanding of good practice when working with volunteers.
- Experience of successfully recruiting, supervising, monitoring and supporting others in a paid or unpaid situation, or experience of co-ordinating a group of people to achieve a complex desired outcome.
- Experience in developing personal action plans to address strategic service priorities.
- Ability to write reports and produce/present information to colleagues, families, and other stakeholders.
- Can communicate and listen effectively. Demonstrates good standard of writing and IT skills.

Full details of **role** and responsibilities are detailed within the Job Description attached.

**A valid driving licence and use of a car is essential for this role.**

This **role** is based in the West Essex locality, **working** across Harlow, Epping Forest and Uttlesford Districts.

As per NHS guidance this role will require successful applicants to evidence immunisations or immunity for MMR and Chicken Pox. This is due to the clinical focus of some tasks and the requirement to work with vulnerable families, young people and children.

The roles within this service may also require the successful applicant to wear PPE including the wearing of a protective mask, to follow social distancing rules as stated within NHS guidelines and to remain compliant with any future mandatory requirementsintroduced by the Government/NHS.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent,hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which should be in place by 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & CultureStrategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's.