Groups/activity Coordinator - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Newcastle Vision Support

Description

To co-ordinate, organise and facilitate successful and safe provision of services delivered in a group setting for Visually Impaired People with the support of volunteers.

• Set up, promote, organise, and run groups, considering individual needs of attendees.
• To liaise with volunteers to ensure all groups are fully covered, to meet and greet attendees, guide them to venue and serve refreshments.
• To support existing volunteers and actively recruit new ones
• Arrange attendance of speakers, professionals, and activities.
• To contact Service Users to confirm attendance and book taxis where required.
• Set up appropriate venue(s), booking rooms, and refreshments arrangements at each group.
• Create a safe, enjoyable, and friendly environment.
• To take account of the individual needs of group attendees when designing group sessions and adjusting the programme as necessary.
• To ensure that sessions run to time and are well designed to allow participants to engage fully and to maximise their enjoyment and beneficial impact.
• To assist the group attendees to feel welcome and to understand the aims and benefit of the group(s).
• To be receptive to the views and opinions of group attendees during the group and when seeking to plan, develop and design future groups.
• Communicate client needs, issues and concerns with office manager and other staff members.
• Experience in carrying out risk assessments.

• Ensure that groups are appropriately organised, and arrangements communicated with attendees, staff, volunteers, and that the relevant health & safety checks and risk assessments have been completed.
• Monitor and maintain records of group attendance and activity in line NVS requirements.
• Arrange speakers, professionals, and activities for various groups.
• Arrange appropriate transport to meet client needs.

• Collecting taxi contributions towards transportation.
• Manage volunteers who support groups ensuring that they have clarity about their role and are offered relevant training.
• Responsible for the coordination of group related volunteers.
• To submit monitoring reports for funding purposes on a regular basis.

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Free parking