Community Programmes Coordinator

Job description

Yateley Industries provides housing, employment, and social activities for people with disabilities. Our mission is to create an inclusive community where individuals can thrive. We offer accommodation, employment opportunities and social activities to promote independence, personal growth and belonging.

Job Purpose

The Community Programme Health Lead will be responsible for the design, delivery and monitoring of a 12 month health programme. The project aims to encourage members of Yateley Industries and the wider community to increase their physical activity by experiencing a wide range of weekly physical activities. Through a personalised incentive scheme, focus will be on supporting individuals to create new lifelong habits and a sustainable fitness plan for when the programme has ended. The programme seeks to; improve physical health, reduce stress, increase social interaction and act as a signpost service to other community initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Programme design, delivery and monitoring
• Develop and manage a weekly programme of physical activities for our disabled residents and the wider community with focus on individuals who use Yateley Industries Community Hub services, those with disabilities, adults ages 55+ and those facing financial difficulty (though all adults are welcome to take part)
• Ensure a variety of accessible opportunities are available both on and off-site.
• Ensure that all activities and events are delivered within a safe and appropriate environment, following relevant policies and procedures.
• The programme should be co-designed with participants – through group consultations and one to ones.
• Feedback from participants should be gathered from a range of methods
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local community groups, businesses, and organisations to create new health links and contacts.
• Promote and advertise activities to the wider community.
• Manage a budget ensuring all activities are delivered within budget.
• Create monitoring systems to record each individual’s baseline of activity and the journey travelled by the end of the programme.
• Help support the delivery of wider community hub activities

• Incentive scheme
• Create an award/ incentive scheme to help encourage attendance, commitment and long-term changes.

• Sustainability
• A key element of this role is to work with individuals to make long term changes in their physical activity. You will look to create a sustainability plan with each person to enable them to carry on the activity once the programme has ended. The budget and incentive scheme can be utilised to achieve this.
• All personal plans will need to be well documented.

Note: Interest and knowledge for physical and activity and health is an important skill for this role, but a sports background is not essential.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating Community Programmes or activities
• A passion and interest in physical activity and health
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Experience of working with disabled people or vulnerable adults would be advantageous.

Yateley Industries is committed to promoting equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Person Specification (E = Essential D = Desirable)

Skills and core competencies

Competencies

• Embraces change and drives continuous improvement (E)
• Collaborates and unites with others behind the organisations mission (E)
• Provides a high-quality service to all customers internal and external (E)

Technical competency (qualifications and training)

• Excellent organisation skills (E)
• Ability to work independently and a strong team player (E)
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with business and contacts in the wider community

Experience

• Community programme development and programming (E)
• Excellent written skills and experience in report writing
• Experience of managing a budget
• Excellent customer service skills (E)
• Commercial Awareness (E)

Key Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Good organisational and time management skills (E)
• Ability to recruit volunteers (E)
• Excellent communication Skills (E)
• IT skills – Microsoft Office, social media and e-commerce (E)
• Budget management (E)

Key Behaviours

• A flexible approach to cope with varying demands of the role (E)
• Teamwork – sharing best practice with peers (E)
• Ability to work under own initiative (E)
• Ability to effectively organise & plan (E)
• Ability to Travel as required to meet the business need (E)

Safeguarding

• Displays an awareness, understanding and commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults. (E)

Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Salary: £15,600.00-£15,700.00 per year

Expected hours: 21 per week