Youth Worker/Manager

Job Title:

Youth Manager and Lead Worker

Location:

Westbourne Park Family Centre

Position Type:

3-year contract 26-35 hours per week

Level/Salary Range:

£16.5 per hour with pension

Responsible for:

Youth Work (10-20year olds)

Reporting to:

WPFC CEO

Requirement:

This role carries an Occupational Requirement for an active and committed Christian faith

Accountable to:

WPFC Trustees

Date of advertisement:

13^th June 2022

Closing date for applications:

10^sth July 2022

WPFC Mission Statement: To support and strengthen families in the local area of Westbourne Park. Job Purpose:

To lead the Youth Department for Westbourne Park Family Centre

• To manage, support and develop the youth work under the direction of the CEO
• To oversee the training and supervision of volunteers.
• To ensure good practice.
• To model and promote the vision and Christian values of WPFC
• To promote the youth projects

The following competencies are expected to be delivered by the post holder:

Competency: Communication

• Communicate the purpose of the organisation through personal sharing of the ethos and beliefs of Westbourne Park Family Centre
• Communicate with the staff team and volunteers across the charity.
• Participate in staff meetings, sharing in vision, strategy, spiritual and practical discussions
• Communicate with WPFC CEO and Trustees
• Communicate with parents of youth attending the Project, utilising appropriate approaches and language for the age range of youth involved
• Communicate with other users of the church building, regarding joined up working.
• Communicate with external agencies and statutory bodies
• Utilise communication skills of listening, non-verbal skills and body language
• Apply communication skills to difficult situations and resolving conflict
• Manage barriers to communication such as noise, lack of privacy, and the ability to hear, read or write through changing the environment or context, changing/modifying the form of communication, helping others with communication, simplifying the content or using communication aids including interpreters/translators when needed
• Comply with relevant legislation, policies and procedures

Competency: Personal and People Development

• Take part in the personal development review process, identifying what you are doing well and areas for development
• Identify own learning needs and plan how to address them
• Participate in on-job learning, reflective practice, learning from others on the job, supervision, undertaking qualifications in the workplace
• Participate in e-learning and formal courses
• Evaluate the effectiveness of learning and its effects on own work
• Act as a coach, mentor and role model to others, professionally and spiritually
• Provide training to others including demonstrating, discussion, formal training, organising training provided by others
• Support people on work placements or work experience

Competency: Health, Safety and Security

• Maintain good health, safety and security practices
• Implement the health and safety at work policy
• Carry out risk assessments for activities including environmental risks
• Ensure all accidents or incidents are reported
• Challenge people who put themselves at risk
• Assist with evacuating the building during emergencies according to agreed processes
• Participate in practice exercises for emergencies

Competency: Service Improvement

• Lead project team meetings
• Participate in WPFC Staff Meetings in discussion and leading spiritual reflection
• Develop a process to gain feedback from users
• Share feedback received from activity users regarding service improvement
• Review own and team practice considering feedback
• Share constructive suggestions for improving the service
• Implement agreed recommendations
• Work closely with staff team and activity users
• Provide training and development related to changes
• Collaborate with other services to mutually benefit the organisation, and monitor the impact

 

 

Competency: Quality

• Work as an effective and responsible team member in arriving and leaving promptly and working effectively during agreed working hours
• Develop a culture of quality delivery of the project within the team
• Enable others to solve problems and address them
• Identify issues at work and take action to remedy them
• Present a positive impression of the team and organisation
• React constructively to changing circumstances
• Recognise, respect and promote the different roles that individuals have in the team
• Recognise, respect and promote the diversity of the team
• Seek and reflect on feedback from the team and adapt as necessary
• Support team members
• Take a shared approach to teamwork
• Understand own role in the team and wider organisation
• Ensure quality in managing complaints, health, safety and security, incidents, poor communication, team working and workload
• Ensure the staff team and volunteers are presenting a positive impression of the Family Centre ethos

Competency: Equality and Diversity

• Act as a role model in promoting equality and valuing diversity
• Be aware of the wellbeing of all members of the work team and support them appropriately
• Enable others to reflect on their behavior
• Identify training and development needs
• Enable people to make the best use of their abilities
• Intervene when someone else is discriminating against someone on a one-off or routinely
• Make arrangements of support for people
• Represent people’s views
• Ensure promotion of equality and value of diversity in recruitment, selection and opportunities for staff

Competency: Protection of Health and Wellbeing

• Ensure Risk Assessments are carried out, reviewed and action plans implemented
• Work within Safeguarding Children, Young People and Adults at Risk policy and procedure
• Attend Safeguarding training annually
• Ensure a safe environment for all activities
• Ensure health and safety at work regulations are complied with for self and staff team
• Ensure infection prevention guidelines are complied with by staff team
• Ensure Food Hygiene and Handling regulations are complied with by staff team and building users
• Ensure moving and handling regulations and good practice guidelines are complied with by staff team and building users
• Ensure appropriate assistive equipment is used for moving and handling
• Ensure substances hazardous to health regulations are complied with by staff team and volunteers

Competency: Data and Information

• Comply with data protection policies
• Develop systems to record and manage data and information required for CEO and Funders
• Provide reports when requested and in required format
• Present data to Trustee Meetings when requested
• Contribute to WPFC Annual Report
• Ensure confidentiality in managing data and information processing
• Report and manage any breach in data processing and confidentiality
• Remove and archive data when it is no longer required for current use

Competency: Learning and Development

• Ensure staff team and volunteers learning and training needs are identified
• Plan training against identified needs
• Coordinate the training delivery, utilising the most appropriate source of training
• Maintain training records for staff and volunteer team
• Assess competence of staff and volunteers for required skills
• Prepare training sessions within own remit of delivery, ensuring approach and environment meets staff needs
• Deliver training within own skill base and areas of knowledge/expertise
• Get feedback on training and evaluate the feedback

  Competency: Procurement and Commissioning

• Ensure required goods and supplies are available for the running of the activities
• Delegate ordering responsibility to staff members if appropriate
• Ensure products are appropriate, sufficient quality, cost effective and responsibly sourced
• Control stock of supplies and ensure usage is appropriate
• Resolve any issues with ordering/supply of goods appropriately
• Ensure goods and services are procured within budget

Competency: Financial Management

• Plan and agree budget for project with CEO
• Monitor expenditure
• Provide reports on expenditure to CEO and Trustees
• Manage petty cash for project
• Manage income and subscriptions from activities
• Keep all receipts/paperwork for transactions, and present them to the Bookkeeper on a monthly basis
• Ensure staff and volunteers are refunded for appropriate/agreed expenses

Competency: People Management

• Manage staff recruitment
• Manage rota patterns for staff team
• Ensure sufficient cover and staffing for the activities to run
• Ensure correct skills and skill mix amongst staff team
• Delegate workload and work tasks
• Monitor delivery of tasks
• Manage staff appraisal, with annual performance reviews
• Address any performance issues and agree action plans to support improved performance
• Support staff team to carry out their work commitments
• Recruit volunteers according to the Volunteer policy
• Manage volunteers providing them with support and feedback, including an annual appraisal

 

 

Competency: services and Project Management

• Run projects for youth as part of the service delivered by the Family Centre
• Coordinate with other departments to enhance the journey of children and parents through WPFC
• Plan activities/projects ensuring availability of rooms/space within the building
• Ensure the resources of staff, volunteers and equipment are available for the activities
• Ensure activities are risk assessed and comply with WPFC/WP Venue policies and procedures
• Gather monitoring information on the activities as required by the CEO and funders
• Evaluate activities with the staff team and volunteers, ensuring action plans are put in place to address any issues
• Raise issues with projects/activities/staff/volunteers in supervision sessions with CEO
• Apply innovative thinking to developing projects

Competency: public relations and marketing

• Promote the Projects through informal conversation and through preparing fliers as well as ensuring a presence on social media within the WPFC guidelines, overseen by the CEO
• Prepare and collate feedback forms
• Prepare and collate complaint forms

Person Specification: Children and Youth Manager and Lead Worker

Essential or Desirable

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

Educational certificates in English and Maths

Essential

Educated to diploma level or equivalent in a relevant youth work qualification

Essential

 

Certificated training in First Aid; Parenting Support; Safeguarding Children and Young People; Health and Safety

Desirable

     

Knowledge:

Knowledge of the mission of Westbourne Park Family Centre and an ability to work within the ethos and mission of the organisation

Essential

 

Knowledge General Data Protection Regulations and the impact of these in practice

Essential

 

Knowledge of policies and procedures relevant to Youth work

Essential

 

Knowledge of equality and diversity policy and its implementation in practice

Essential

 

Knowledge of Safeguarding policies and procedures in practice

Essential

     

Skills & Experience:

Able to communicate effectively in spoken and written English language

Essential

Experience of IT skills, keyboard skills and understanding of Microsoft Office software packages including Word, Outlook and Excel

Essential

Experience of communication skills in managing conversations with tact and perception

Essential

Experience of managing staff teams, allocation of workloads, and completing appraisals

Essential

Experience of providing training to a staff team or group of people

Essential

Experience of working in a team, being accountable to line manager and able to work with direction

Essential

Experience of leadership and strategic thinking

Essential

Evidence of being able to problem solve and implement change

Essential

Evidence of taking responsibility for own professional development

Essential

Experience of managing health and safety compliance and carrying out risk assessments

Essential

Experience of offering pastoral and spiritual care

Essential

Experience of leading and participating in acts of Christian worship/devotion

Essential

Experience of managing resources and supplies

Essential

Experience of producing leaflets/fliers

Essential

Experience of use of Social Media to promote activities/organisations

Essential

Experience of collaboration with other people/organisations to develop an activity

Desirable

Experience of gaining feedback from customers or clients

Desirable

Experience of staff recruitment

Desirable

Able to physically carry out the role, with reasonable adaptations if necessary

Essential