We are recruiting a Family and Volunteer Coordinator

Family & Volunteer Coordinator 26hrs

Scale point NJC 13 £22,080 pro rota (£16,218)

ongoing employment will be subject to availability of sufficient funding

Have you got brilliant people skills? Do you share our passion for supporting families?

If you have experience in early years, family support or community work, we’d love to hear from you. We are committed to helping families with young children through their challenging times. Our coordinators build strong relationships with our families, working with them to identify their needs, match them to a trained volunteer and regularly review progress. They provide support, supervision and ongoing training to existing volunteers and train new volunteers. Alongside this they support some of family group work.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our enthusiastic and supportive staff team. We offer a genuinely rewarding and positive work environment, and ongoing opportunities for training and development.

Essential requirements: Experience of supporting children and families; knowledge and understanding of their needs; Good interpersonal skills and a positive team player; knowledge of safeguarding and the ability to supervise befriending volunteers; A commitment to anti-discriminatory practice

Please download the application pack from our website: www.homestartsd.org or email enquiries@homestartsd.org or call: 01453 297470 to request an application pack.

Closing date: Sunday 12th September 2021 (midnight)

Interviews will be held on the 16th & 17th September

Job Description Family and Volunteer Coordinator

Employer Home-Start Stroud and Gloucester

Hours of work 26 hours

ongoing employment will be subject to availability of sufficient funding

Responsible to Senior Coordinator

Purposes of the job

To maintain high standards of practice in supporting families within the Home-Start model and ethos.
To ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of the scheme’s work.
Implement good child protection practice in all areas of work
To contribute to the effective day to day operation of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start Memorandum & Articles of Association, Home-Start, Standards & Methods of Practice, Home-Start Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.

Main Responsibilities

Support for families

Receiving referrals and assessing needs of families. across Stroud and Gloucester.
Introducing families to appropriate support.
Ensuring support to families is reviewed at regular intervals and at the end of Home-Start support, in line with current Home-Start guidance
Providing direct support to families when there are no volunteers available.
To attend professional group meetings when necessary in order to support families and promote good working relationships with other agencies working alongside the family.
To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.

Managing Volunteers

Recruiting, selecting and preparing suitable volunteers.
Matching and introducing volunteers to families.
Providing support, supervision and initial and on-going training opportunities for volunteers.

Running groups

Working with the Group lead coordinator to help run groups.
Introducing families who attend the groups to appropriate further support.
Setting-up, running and evaluating group sessions.
Ensuring support to families is reviewed in line with current Home-Start guidance
To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.

Supporting the work of the scheme

Undertaking work as delegated by the Senior Coordinator to support the strategic management, development and future funding of the scheme.
Supporting the implementation and review of all Home-Start policies and procedures.
Complying with the scheme’s administration, monitoring and financial systems.
Promoting the work of the scheme, as required by the Manager.
Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally and nationally.

Working in Partnership

Ensuring appropriate liaison with referrers and other professionals
Networking appropriately within the community.

The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that fall within the nature of the role and responsibilities of the post as detailed above.

This job description is current as at July 2021