Coordinator

**About KIDS**:
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**Our Mission & Strategy**

We’re here for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities, young carers and families. We’re on a mission to create a world where all kinds of children and young people have all kinds of opportunities. We create life-changing opportunities by providing a wide range of support. Together, we’ll empower disabled children to stand up for their rights.

Childhood should be a joyful time. But some children and young people living with special educational needs and disabilities are defined by what they cannot do. That’s wrong.

Every child should have an equal opportunity to play, learn, grow and thrive.

**_ Because when the world says we can’t, kids say we can._**

Our strategic plan will enable us to reach 120,000 disabled young people and their families, every year, by 2027.

**About The Role**:
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**Kids Wellbeing Support Groups and Adventure Activity STRUT Programme Coordinator**

**Employer
- KIDS**

**Contract - 7.2 hours per week (1 day)**

**Location - Lincoln***

**Salary - £5,172 per year (£25,860 FTE )**

**Essential - Drivers Licence**

**Qualifications -** **Level 3 in a youth work relevant field preferred but not essential experience will be considered. Level 3 in Management & Leadership desirable experience will be considered. 2-3 years experience in a supervisory, leadership or management role.**

Do you have what it takes to join an amazing organisation that makes a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families?

This is a great role for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who will coordinate a small contracted team to plan the delivery of support and recreation activities including after school clubs and activity days for young people and endeavour to show them a great time whilst offering an abundance of support.

This is an extremely rewarding role with a mix of home working, day trips and community setting delivery.

You will become a key member of the KIDS Lincolnshire team for an established and well-respected charity who has a great reputation within the sector. You will work with a fantastic team of highly motivated individuals who love what they do.

**The Role**:

- To coordinate Kids STRUT Wellbeing Support Groups and Adventure Activity Programme to children and young people with disabilities.
- To promote and advertise our service offering to the wider community
- Build supportive relationships with service users and families.
- Coordinating the project, making venue bookings, managing a budget, planning and evaluating the project.
- To offer inspiration, leadership, managerial guidance, direction and support to the team at all levels.
- To support with the recruitment needs of the project.
- To support with reporting to project funders.

**About You**:
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**Skills**:

- Excellent communication skills, including active listening,
- Understanding confidentiality requirements and industry regulations
- Patience, Acceptance, Sensitivity, Reliability, Integrity and Resilience
- Ability to inspire and motivate.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent IT skills.

**In Return?**
- 5 weeks annual leave rising to 6 weeks after 4 years completed service
- Bank Holiday entitlement
- Life assurance
- Employer Pension contribution
- Flexible hours to provide an ideal balance between work life and private life
- Employee benefits portal, including discounts at 100s online high street stores
- Recommend a friend referral scheme with financial reward
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Helps to deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing. The confidential employee benefit provides expert advice and compassionate guidance 24/7
- Sick Pay If you are absent from work because of sickness or injury you are entitled to statutory sick pay (SSP) provided you meet the criteria in the current SSP regulations from the fourth consecutive day of sickness
- Family Friendly Leave Pay
- KIDS Virtual College: Provides a huge range of up to date and professional courses for all staff members
- Bereavement Leave

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**KIDS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all those who come into contact with our services. Our colleagues are trained to recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns. We work closely with families and other agencies to take all reasonable steps to minimise the risk of harm to children, young people and adults.**

**To fulfil our commitment to those we work with we observe safer recruitment and selection procedures and nurture a safeguarding culture which is open and transparent, where all concerns in relation to our people can be identified and spoken about openly and are dealt with promptly and appropriately. By identifying concerning, problematic or inappropriate behaviour early we aim to minimise the risk of abuse.**

**Location**:

- Lincoln