About the role:
The Boathouse Youth Charity Blackpool requires a charismatic, friendly individual to join their team as a Youth Support Apprentice studying for their Level 3 qualification.
Hours:
25 hours – possibility of increase during the school holidays
Location
Between two sites – 205 Lytham Road, Blackpool FY1 6ET and 170 Horsebridge Road, Grange Park, FY3 7EA
Salary
£9.84
About The Boathouse Youth Charity:
The Boathouse Youth is an amazing (and rapidly growing) children’s charity operating in Blackpool who provide services to young people living in the Bloomfield and Grange Park communities of the town; the majority of whom are suffering some form of disadvantage – usually sourced from poverty. The charity provides an exciting and vibrant programme of between 20 and 30 weekly sessions at evenings and weekends for members Aged 5 – 17 across four age-groups. In addition to this, the charity provide a whole host of school-holiday activities including day trips, projects and residential experiences including Canal Boating, Camping, Cycling and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.
Role responsibilities:
- Participate in weekly staff meetings
- Provide constructive feedback on proposed session plans and ideas.
- Present your own ideas for provision delivery and improvement.
- Pro-actively discuss previous delivery with a view to improving next time.
- Build and maintain genuine professional relationships with children and young people attending the provision.
- Support and/or manage the provision to which you are assigned
- Ensure you have full understanding of the session plan before you are required to deliver a programme.
- Ensure you have all of the required resources in place before you are required to deliver a programme.
- Manage the group’s behaviour effectively to ensure their safety and wellbeing is always protected.
- Have fun and make sure others do, too!
- To complete a thorough and honest session report after every provision.
- Report any incidents, accidents, allegations or concerns in line with the relevant procedures.
- Have a good knowledge of the following documents: Staff & Volunteer Handbook Safeguarding Bundle Health & Safety Policy
- Ensuring that delivery sites are left clean and tidy at the end of each provision.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with staff, volunteers, parents and other stakeholders that are conducive to effective performance in your role.
- Develop and maintain a good knowledge of The Boathouse Youth.
- Professionally and proactively represent the organisation at all times.
- Acting as a ‘Key Holder’ for the premises.
- Attending one-to-one supervision meetings and annual appraisals.
- Cleaning and maintaining premises, vehicles and delivery areas.
- Working in partnership with other agencies.
- Other reasonable duties as advised.
Safeguarding
The Boathouse Youth is committed to the effective Safeguarding of its Young People. This post will be recruited in accordance with the NSPCC’s guidance on safer recruitment. This includes a thorough interview, scruity of former employment, a requirement for references and an Enhanced DBS check.
The Person
The Boathouse Youth is looking for a brilliant team-player who is a natural with young people and has an ambition to achieve. The role requires a mutli-skilled individual who wholeheartedly believes in the work the charity undertakes and passionately wants to make a difference.
Desired qualities
- Positive Role Model – This means you need to be a person of honesty, integrity and good standing. You should be well-presented, well-mannered and well behaved.
- Natural with young people – You understand how to engage them in all levels of conversation and relate to them on a person level whilst maintaining a professional dignity at alltimes.
- A good understanding of modern technology – This includes smart phone applications, internet-based software and the basic Microsoft Office programmes.
- Positive “can do” attitude – You want o continually improve yourself and others and subscribe to the “tomorrow will be better than today” notion.
- Great fun – Our young people want infectious laughs, contagious smiles and lots of energy. We are their favourite thing!
- Manage a diverse workload – You need to be able to manage a diverse workload in a changing environment and deliver tasks against agreed timescales. You’ll also need to be flexible in your approach to working hours.
