SESSIONAL SPORTS ENGAGEMENT WORKER

Location: South Gloucestershire
Start date: ASAP (dependent on completion of satisfactory reference and DBS checks)
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: Part time (10 hours per week across 3 evenings, including Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays)
Starting Salary: £23,000 FTE per annum, pro-rata to £6,571.43 per annum.

WHO WE ARE:

We support children and young people living in Bristol, South Glos and the surrounding areas, providing engaging play and youth work embedded in communities. We also provide personalised part-time and full-time alternative education environments for children and young people to overcome barriers to engagement and learning.

WHAT WE DO:

At LPW, we provide safe, emotionally supportive and enriching spaces where children and young people can: build trusted and trauma-informed relationships; grow in confidence and independence; overcome challenges; and have ownership of their learning and future.

Awareness, knowledge and understanding of:

• South Glos’ (Kingswood & Yate) communities;
• Issues that affect young people, including those that are vulnerable;
• Best practice in safeguarding young people from harm;
• Other support agencies within South Glos and multi-agency processes of support for CYP;
• Best practice in promoting inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity;
• The right candidate should hold or be willing to work towards Level 3 Youth Work qualification or above and/or discipline related to working with young people e.g. coaching qualifications

Experience of:

• Working within a similar role either paid or voluntary;
• Planning, delivering and evaluating outcome focused buildings and non- buildings based activities for children and young people;
• Engaging and working with a wide range of children and young people in groups to secure positive outcomes;
• Working with partners, with families and within communities to secure outcomes for children and young people;
• Safeguarding children and young people from harm;
• Experience of risk assessing activities;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and challenging discrimination

To Skills and ability to:

• Use and or willingness to learn how to use a variety of information technology i.e. Microsoft Office and maintain accurate/detailed records in a database;
• Effectively plan and manage own caseload to achieve targets and evaluate outcomes;
• Contribute to team targets and evaluate outcomes;
• Effectively deal with challenging and confrontational situations;
• Engage and communicate effectively with young people, parents, carers, teachers, managers and other professionals;
• Problem-solve, innovate, plan, organise, overcome barriers and implement solutions effectively;
• Provide a range of ways for young people to have their say in their services.
• Be flexible in approach to working locations, enabling travel around South Glos and into Bristol;
• Be culturally competent and able to challenge inequality
• Work effectively with young people from a diverse range of backgrounds;
• Work effectively in a team situation and on own initiative;
• Form confident professional relationships with young people

JOB PURPOSE

This role is to deliver and develop our established Kingswood basketball session and to develop our new session in Yate. This is a sports-based role, and you will run large group session for young people living in Kingswood and Yate. You will be working with a team of Engagement Workers to integrate our range of youth sessions which include targeted, open access and detached youth work.

IN THIS ROLE, YOUR PRIMARY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY WILL BE:

• Sessional sport-based Engagement Worker.
• Engaging groups of young people in sports-based positive activities within their communities.
• Developing opportunities for young people to positive engage with stakeholders in their wider community.
• Work with young people in group-based sessions to improve behavioural and social outcomes;
• Plan, monitor and evaluate targeted group activities;
• Undertake assessments in order to identify young people’s strengths and barriers to progression;
• Produce group session plans with young based on the groups and implement them in order to achieve outcomes;
• Involve young people in service design;
• Provide ways for young people to have their say in developing, delivering and evaluating services so that they are accessible, attractive and relevant for them and their families;
• Complete and review comprehensive risk assessments;
• Work within a budget;
• Maintain accurate and professional records relating to interventions with young people using our database;
• Support, engage and maintain good working relationships with families to ensure positive outcomes for young people;
• Liaise regularly with partners, schools, other providers, specialist support agencies and community organisations;
• To carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects commitment to safeguarding young people in accordance with LPW’s policies
• Ensure that Child Protection requirements are complied with and where appropriate reported in accordance with agreed criteria;
• Ensure the welfare of young people and highlight any safeguarding issues to relevant agencies;
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation and opportunities relevant to young people;
• Implement delegated tasks from LPW’s strategic and operational plans;
• Any other duties that may be required from time to time.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THIS ROLE:

Awareness, knowledge and understanding of:

• South Glos’ (Kingswood & Yate) communities;
• Issues that affect young people, including those that are vulnerable;
• Best practice in safeguarding young people from harm;
• Other support agencies within South Glos and multi-agency processes of support for CYP;
• Best practice in promoting inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity;
• The right candidate should hold or be willing to work towards Level 3 Youth Work qualification or above and/or discipline related to working with young people e.g. coaching qualifications.

Experience of:

• Working within a similar role either paid or voluntary;
• Planning, delivering and evaluating outcome focused buildings and non- buildings based activities for children and young people;
• Engaging and working with a wide range of children and young people in groups to secure positive outcomes;
• Working with partners, with families and within communities to secure outcomes for children and young people;
• Safeguarding children and young people from harm;
• Experience of risk assessing activities;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and challenging discrimination.

To Skills and ability to:

• Use and or willingness to learn how to use a variety of information technology i.e. Microsoft Office and maintain accurate/detailed records in a database;
• Effectively plan and manage own caseload to achieve targets and evaluate outcomes;
• Contribute to team targets and evaluate outcomes;
• Effectively deal with challenging and confrontational situations;
• Engage and communicate effectively with young people, parents, carers, teachers, managers and other professionals;
• Problem-solve, innovate, plan, organise, overcome barriers and implement solutions effectively;
• Provide a range of ways for young people to have their say in their services.
• Be flexible in approach to working locations, enabling travel around South Glos and into Bristol;
• Be culturally competent and able to challenge inequality
• Work effectively with young people from a diverse range of backgrounds;
• Work effectively in a team situation and on own initiative;
• Form confident professional relationships with young people.

Your attitude means you will have:

• Commitment to LPW vision and values;
• Commitment to developing own learning, knowledge and skills;
• Ability to work flexibly at times that young people need support, including occasional evening work;
• Willing to travel across South Glos and Bristol throughout the working day and week;
• Willingness to respond positively and effectively to change;
• Ability to champion and promote equality of opportunity, discrimination and stereotypical behaviours.