Youth Programme Coordinator

5 days ago

Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

About the Role:

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This role involves delivering meaningful youth programmes to children and young people aged 8-19 in the Gravesham district. The successful applicant must be able to take the lead in organising and partaking in an inclusive programme of activities, trips, and adventures that support children and young people to thrive.

The Job Purpose is to deliver highly effective and enjoyable youth programmes, including youth groups, holiday activities, overnight adventures, and 1-2-1 mentoring support to young people considered in need within the Gravesham district and surrounding areas.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Plan, deliver and develop youth programmes that will attract and engage children and young people in need, positively impact their personal and social development, and achieve the overall aims of the programme.
  2. Establish consistent trusting relationships between young people and staff/volunteers supporting the activities in order to promote their personal development.
  3. Oversee the staffing of sessions, supervise volunteer youth workers, and ensure required ratios are in place.
  4. Provide 1-2-1 mentoring when required, in the community, at hubs, or in schools, to assist young people with goals and overcome barriers to engagement.
  5. Deliver programmes/support that is trauma-healing and actively seeks to reduce the potential of re-traumatisation of participants.
  6. Deliver activities that are inclusive and accessible to young people from differing cultural backgrounds, young people with additional needs, children and young people with physical, learning, and developmental disabilities.
  7. Ensure activities are risk-assessed, with robust measures in place to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of participants, including staff and volunteers.
  8. Involve young people and other stakeholders in co-production of the Programme, ensuring they have input in the design, delivery, and evaluation, obtaining very regular feedback utilising a variety of media.
  9. Ensure that activities participated in, and their associated learning and achievements are appropriately measured, recognised, and reported on accordingly in agreed formats.
  10. Submit reports on take-up, outcomes, impact, and satisfaction to management and commissioners/funders.

Requirements:

  1. Have flexible availability to meet the needs of service users during service operating hours.
  2. Work within agreed timescales and allocation of hours.
  3. Work within agreed quality frameworks and quality standards.
  4. Take part in supervision and appraisal and meet on other occasions, as required, with the manager.
  5. Comply with the YLF Code of Conduct and ensure Safeguarding Policy and Procedures are followed at all times.
  6. Attend staff meetings, as required, including compulsory staff development/training days.
  7. Keep accurate records of any expenditure incurred and ensure that such expenditure is within agreed limits and has been duly authorised.
  8. Maintain such other records as may be required for the purposes of monitoring, evaluation, and review; and prepare periodic reports.
  9. Develop and maintain effective liaison with referral sources and with other professionals.
  10. Uphold the values and adhere to the policies and procedures of the Young Lives Foundation.
  11. Undertake such other duties as may, from time to time, be reasonably required.

Important Considerations:

  • The youth worker is required to work flexible hours, including regular evenings and weekends and during school holidays.
  • Youth groups currently run weekly during the evenings; the successful applicant must be able to deliver the groups on these days and offer flexibility.
  • Applicants must be able to drive and have use of a car for business purposes, to transport young people and/or equipment.
  • It will be an advantage if you are able to drive a minibus.

Estimated Salary: £22,366 pro rata (FTE), £17.51 per hour, based on a 14-hour week contract.

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