Youth Engagement Coordinator - Barrhead, United Kingdom - Include Me 2 Club

Include Me 2 Club

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Barrhead, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job description

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 12-18yrs and 16-25yrs 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 youth services function of the organisation through effective line management of our youth services facilitators and volunteers.
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 young people.

Duties:

Be main point of contact for all sessional staff and volunteers working within youth 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 youth services (e.g. equipment required & activity suggestions).
Work alongside Children's Services Coordinator and Adult Services Manager to coordinate staff between services and plan smooth transitions for young people moving into and from youth 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, safeguarding 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 nondiscriminatory 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 youth services facilitators and volunteers through regular catch ups, performance reviews and ongoing support and training.
Maintain and support schools with queries and referrals, building positive pathways and links with schools.
Attend and contribute to senior management planning sessions, fundraising support and funding reporting 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 session