Children's Services Coordinator

**Why work at Include Me 2 Club?**

Include Me 2 Club is a fast-paced, growing charity that exists to ensure all children, young people and adults with an additional support need, disability or mental health condition, are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with a range of projects, partners and funders to ensure that our specialist services within the sector are strengthened and supported and that provision is member-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.

**General principles for all Include Me 2 Club staff**

All Include Me 2 Club staff, volunteers and trainees are expected to work in line with our culture, brand, ethos, values and management principles, in particular by:

- Building and maintaining meaningful, supportive, mutually empowering relationships with and between colleagues, partners and members (children, young people and adults).
- Creating and supporting a friendly and trusting working environment, working flexibly and supporting each other in times of high workload or when life gets difficult.
- Accepting personal responsibility for our work and being accountable for delivering results against those responsibilities.
- Recognising that we all have a role to play in all aspects of Include Me 2 Clubs’ success, in particular, supporting fundraising, storytelling, and involving adults, young people and children in shaping the future of Include Me 2 Club.

**Purpose of the post**

To plan, organise, deliver and lead a regular programme of activities for our young members, aged 0-12, with an additional support need, disability or mental health condition. This may include inclusive groups, activity days, holiday activity programmes, themed weekends and partnership programmes.

**Main Function**:

- To oversee the children’s services function of the organisation through effective line management of our children’s services facilitators.
- To provide an inclusive service so that our members will have fun, stay safe, be inspired, make friends, learn, contribute to and provide them with life skills socially and individually.
- To assist the staff and volunteers to organise, deliver and facilitate stimulating and innovative sessions for children.

**Duties**:

- Be main point of contact for all sessional staff and volunteers working within children’s services
- Plan activities and opportunities for member engagement
- Encourage and request feedback from session leaders and share this feedback with senior management to help improve delivery of children’s services (e.g. equipment required & activity suggestions)
- Work alongside Youth Services Coordinator to coordinate staff between services
- Manage a team of sessional staff to ensure that clubs run smoothly and to expected standard
- Direct, lead and engage with members, their support staff/workers, volunteers, trainees and student placements to provide guidance and direction on activities and procedures for each activity or event.
- Ensure that all relevant child protection and Health & Safety procedures are followed at all sessions and that the relevant documents are completed (e.g. accident/incident forms)
- Encourage good behaviour and deal with any challenging behaviour/conduct in accordance with the organisations’ policies and procedures
- Ensure non-discriminatory practices at all times - in line with the Equal Opportunities policy
- Preparation and clearing up of activities/areas/locations
- Contribute to joint working and partnership working ensuring positive relationships with all concerned
- Provide effective line management to our children’s services facilitators and volunteers through regular catch ups, performance reviews and ongoing support and training.
- Maintain and support schools with queries and referrals
- Attend and contribute to senior management planning sessions

**Health & Safety**:

- Ensuring that all areas/equipment used are free from hazard/danger
- Reporting/removing any items considered dangerous
- Ensuring all reasonable precautions are taken with regard to the children's and your own Health and Safety, on indoor/outdoor activities and games.
- Understand and implement Dynamic Risk Benefit assessments

**Administration/Procedures**:

- Ensure familiarity and adherence to organisation’s procedures/policies
- Support evaluation of the service by maintaining register of attendance, consent and evaluation records (observations, images, questionnaires, videos as appropriate)
- Noting and acting with regard to special health or dietary needs of members on register
- Attendance at staff meetings and training sessions as required
- Keeping a log of, and reporting any issues on sessions to your line manager
- Other duties associated with the Children’s Services as required

**Essential Requirements**
- Previous experience in a similar role
- A driving license and access to your own car
- Strong organisational and communication skills

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