Community Coordinator - Coventry, United Kingdom - Midland Mencap

Midland Mencap

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Coventry, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Community Coordinator

Salary:
£26,101

Employment Status: 37 Hours Per Week

Responsible To:
Operations Manager

Location:
Regis, Little Park Street, Coventry CV1 2

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 2 years' experience of developing community accessible wellbeing activities.

Desirable

Experience of working with a wide range of people with all abilities.
Experience of mentoring, supporting and supervising staff & volunteers.
Knowledge of undertaking consultation exercises a wide range of individuals & abilities.

Skills, Abilities & Attributes

Essential

Ability to plan and allocate staff and volunteer rotas.
Ability to support, motivate and lead towards set objectives.
Ability to work on own initiative and take decisionmaking calls.
Ability to maintain and uphold all policies and procedures.
Ability to support with interviewing potential frontline staff.
Ability to oversee and/or carry out staff induction training.
Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, citizens, carers, professionals, and other agencies.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Ability to complete reviews of care plans & risk assessments.
Well organised, with good literacy and numeracy skills.
A keen eye for detail and a passion for high standards.
Strong IT literacy, with the ability to monitor and maintain staff & citizen records via a digital case management system.
Enable the delivery of regular inclusive sports and recreational wellbeing activities, leading to progression and improvements for an individual's physical, health, mental, and social wellbeing
Demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality & GDPR.
Full Driving licence willing to drive to various locations across Coventry.
Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and public holidays.

Training & Qualifications

Desirable

Project Management
Community Development

Who We Look For

Are you a
warm,
personable, and
caring individual who can motivate and a wide range of people with all abilities?

Midland Mencap is looking to recruit a
Coordinator to develop, support and promote the delivery of social, leisure and recreational activity (wellbeing) service across Coventry.

Do you have
passion for what you do & are able to provide accessible community support and navigation into activities and amenities that would provide positive outcomes to individuals, You will need to be a strong
communicator and have excellent
problem-solving skills.

We place a high value upon
integrity,
ethical standards, and a commitment to
excellence.

Midland Mencap's Community service is constantly evolving in our pursuit of delivering the
best life outcomes for
everyone who accesses our services.

To achieve these goals, we need individuals who are prepared to
drive progress and interact
confidently with staff, citizens, families, and professionals.

What Does A Coordinator Do?

The coordination and delivery of quality and well received accessible social, leisure and recreational wellbeing activities & events for people of all abilities across Coventry.

Responsible for organising activities, participants, staff, sessional staff, volunteers, finding appropriate venues and the maintaining and developing partnerships bringing, people, organisations, and services together.

This role will require you to complete and review risk assessments for activities at venues/locations across the Coventry. Good diary management is important too, with the need to organise meetings.

This role involves lots of problem-solving skills to ensure we achieve outcomes for the citizens we support.

There's a need to be responsible, confident, and tactful in how you approach tasks and the broad range of citizens, families, and professionals you will encounter in the course of your duties.

With the support of experienced Managers, you'll need to be able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a wider team and able to maintain comprehensive digital records.

This job description is an outline of the duties and responsibilities a coordinator will be expected to fulfil. It may be revised at any time according to changing need of the service.

Midland Mencap reserves the right to alter the content of this job description, after consultation, to reflect the changes to the position without altering the general character or level of responsibility.

The duties carried out in job description must be carried out in a manner that promotes equality of opportunity, dignity and due respect of all employees and citizens and is consistent with Midland Mencap equal opportunities policy.

Salary:
£26,101
.00 per year

Benefits: