Salary: £27,803 - £28,770 - Pro Rata for 28 hours per week
Who are we looking for to join #TeamGMYN?
We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Programme Coordinator to lead our programme for care leavers in Bolton. The programme funded by The Albert Gubay Foundation is in its second year of providing much needed support for care leavers to aide their transition to adulthood.
The activities provide individuals with opportunities to develop essential life skills, increase their wellbeing and create new support networks.
The programme will help individuals to build new friendships, develop aspirations and gain access to a supportive worker who they can approach for advice and guidance.
We are looking for a Programme Coordinator that can be a flexible and committed team player. In return you will have the chance to have creative ownership of this programme, bringing your own skills and ideas to make it an amazing experience for young people to be involved in.
In this role, you will need to be confident in inspiring and engaging care leavers and be able to develop positive partnerships with various stakeholders.
The main activities delivered through this programme include:
- Life skills workshops such as cooking, budgeting, travel training.
- Creative/outdoor activities such as music, cooking, drama, art, sport etc.
- One-to-one support to provide bespoke guidance so young people can overcome barriers to access education, employment and training opportunities.
A key part of the role will be promoting the programme to stakeholders and working to recruit young people. The successful candidate will integrate themselves within the Bolton Leaving Care Service to ensure we receive referrals for the programme.
Key responsibilities
- To develop effective relationship with care leavers.
- To deliver positive life skills, wellbeing and employability focussed activities enabling young people to develop key skills and experiences.
- To deliver one-to-one sessions with young people to support development and progression towards education, employment and training opportunities.
- To promote the programme to key stakeholders.
- To develop close working relationships with referral agencies such statutory services, voluntary organisations, and colleges.
- To monitor and report on programme outputs and outcomes using GMYN’s programme management database.
- To ensure that all participants and staff are safeguarded and that all activities are delivered safely.
- To effectively project manage the programme, ensuring that all planning, budgeting, recording, and reporting is up to date.
- To ensure that all activities are youth led and youth voice embedded in the programme.
- To conduct administrative tasks related to the role including internal and external communications, programme planning and data inputting.
- To perform any other reasonable duties and responsibilities that contribute to the organisations overall aims and objectives.
- To undertake training and development as agreed with line manager.
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At GMYN, we are regularly reviewing our practices to create a welcoming and supportive environment and encourage suggestions and feedback from staff to improve our offer.
Annual Leave: All staff receive 25 days of annual leave in additional to the public bank holidays, pro rata for completed hours worked. This offer rises after three years employment with an extra day each year (capped at 30 days). We also provide additional "Gift Days" during Christmas when the office is closed.
Happy birthday: GMYN allows all employees to take a day off from work to celebrate their birthday.
Wellbeing Days: Staff also benefit from five annual wellbeing days as part of their holiday allowance. Wellbeing days are ‘no-questions-asked’ days of annual leave, to be taken on the day they are needed, to allow you time away to alleviate stress and manage your mental wellbeing.
Flexible Working: We operate flexible working hours and working from home policies to allow you to fit your personal commitments around your work.
Remuneration: We are a living wage employer, setting salaries in line with NJC scales and reviewing annually.
Pension: We offer an 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contributions.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Staff have access to a 24/7 service offering a wide range of support, including life support, legal information, bereavement support, CBT online and much more.
Sage Employee Benefits Programme: GMYN offers staff a benefits package through Sage. There are various benefits on offer through this scheme, which include the following:
- Access to an online GP. This can include getting prescriptions.
- Health advice. This includes numerous articles on various health related matters.
- Discounts on gym membership at Health Clubs.
- Cinema savings, shopping discounts and holidays. Discounts available through a variety of retailers.
Volunteering/Development hour: GMYN allows all staff members the opportunity to take one hour out of their working week to either volunteer or engage in a development hour. This hour is paid as normal. The development hour can consist of anything that increases their knowledge about an aspect of their role or that is related to the work of GMYN.
Social Value: GMYN provides itself on our approach to social value and our impact on our local and wider environment. We are always looking for ways to improve and actively engage our team to come up with new ideas to improve our environmental impact.
Cycle to Work Scheme: GMYN provides the Cycle to Work scheme, supporting staff to buy a bike, with the cost of the equipment repaid by the employee through salary sacrifice.
Your invitation to interview will be based on how you demonstrate that you meet the points on the person specification. We will consider skills and experiences from various roles if you can demonstrate how they can be transferable to this role.
The full application pack with personal specification can be downloaded from our website Work with us - GMYN
Please email your application and CV to [email protected]. In your application, please answer the questions below. Please ensure that your answers are no longer than 250 words.
- Please tell us why you want to work at GMYN and work with cared leavers and how you meet the person specification.
- How would you engage care leavers to access education, employment and training opportunities?
- Can you describe your approach to safeguarding young people?
- Please describe your experience in project managing a youth programme. What challenges did you face and what did you learn?
- Please tell us how you would work in line with the GMYN Values?
Please also complete an Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form available from our website (www.gmyn.co.uk/work-with-us) which will be collected separate from your application and kept confidential. Please send this separately to [email protected]