Work and Wellbeing Service Coordinator

Why Action for Children? 

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.  

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The difference is what you do. You can learn more about why we do it, by checking out our 'Driven by Love' video. 

About the Service

The Guernsey Youth & Housing project offers support to young people, between the ages of 11- 25, Our work focuses on homelessness and the wider issues that cause it including independent living skills, substance use, leaving care, employability and isolation, delivering over 20 dedicated projects supporting young people.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Volunteer Co-Ordinator who will recruit, train and support volunteers in our service this will be to current and new projects, with the current projects focusing on volunteer mentors

Our mentoring also involves working directly with Children and young people as they prepare for their mentoring journey and staying alongside them and their mentors as they build relationships with young people.

This role will also facilitate volunteer individual and peer supervision to ensure our volunteers working with young people feel supported and fulfilled as they support young people.

• By recruiting inspiring volunteers who can act as positive role models to young people (13-25).
• By overseeing the activities between the volunteers and young people, ensuring they are safe, stimulating and fun.
• By demonstrating the benefits of the service to our community.
• By publicising and promoting volunteering opportunities with individuals, community groups, professionals, and other relevant agencies and to scrutinise applications.
• By ensuring young people are benefitting from supportive and caring relationships with their volunteers that positively impact their wellbeing and life chances.

• Good standard of education to minimum level 3 standards for example; BTech, NVQ L3, A Level.
• Understand and reflect an outcomes focused approach to working with children and young people and to keep children and young people at the heart of decisions 
• Demonstrates and acts as a role model for our organisational values that enables the leadership, direction and guidance of volunteers through the sharing of information and evidence in relevant practice. 
• Demonstrates and embraces understanding of and commitment to equality diversity and inclusion.
• Demonstrable planning and organising skill, and to also prioritise to lead to review and evaluation of workloads and service provision. 
• Creative approach towards continuous improvement through reflection on own practice and behaviour and to embed this into service improvements.
• Ability to liaise with a wide range of individuals.

• 29 days annual leave
• Employee assistance programme
• Dependency leave
• Volunteering day
• Mental health day
• Excellent maternity/paternity leave package

And much more...