Children and Young People Co-Ordinator

• Lead and facilitate structured sessions and activities
• Manage staffing rotas to meet legal ratios
• Provide frontline support and leadership during sessions (weekends and school holidays)
• Be part of the on-call team
• Recruit, lead, manage and support a team of Support Workers
• Support marketing & promoting of services
• Undertake, review and ensure good quality risk assessments and person-centred plans
• Understand barriers facing children with complex needs
• Undertake initial investigation of complaints, disciplinary and grievance procedures
• Process and manage new referrals and conduct assessments
• Lead team meetings
• Participate in regular meetings with manager
• Adhere to and implement organisational policies
• Plan, organise and facilitate weekly children’s sessions
• Support implementing and running HAF sessions
• Complete monitoring for services
• Communicate effectively with staff, managers, professionals, and families
• Attend training courses
• Carry out other appropriate tasks

• Experience leading and managing a team
• Experience working with children and young people with complex disabilities (bonus)
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work well within a team and use own initiative
• Experience participating in CQC, Ofsted and other regulatory inspections
• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with multiple agencies
• Organised in planning and managing working schedules
• Ability to identify and act upon safeguarding or child protection issues
• Enthusiasm, motivation, and ability to drive staff recruitment and children’s assessments
• Willingness to try new things and adapt to needs
• Must be warm, personable, and highly motivated

Transferable skills from other sectors

Comprehensive training provided