Youth Work Project Coordinator

JOB DESCRIPTION

RESPONSIBLE TO: Senior Project Worker (Y’s Girls)

• Please note: The organisation is currently discussing the possibility of implementing a 100-80-100 working arrangement from 2025, which would reduce the working hours to 19.25 hours

1. To initiate, build and maintain purposeful relationships with young people
2. Encourage young people to broaden their horizons to be effective citizens
3. To support young people in their understanding of risk and challenge
4. Support young people to identify and achieve aims so that they may reach their full potential

OUR VALUES: Because we CARE and have COMPASSION we want to MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

We do this with RESPECT and EMPATHY, mindful of the EQUALITY of all.

The post holder will recruit, train and support a team of volunteer mentors to prevent vulnerable young girls from developing mild to moderate mental health difficulties by engaging them in a range of positive activities. The role involves engagement with other professionals to ensure appropriate referrals and appropriate monitoring of safety and progress throughout the mentoring relationship.

The post holder will work as part of a team delivering a range of youth work interventions, support and guidance. They will contribute to the national Y’s Girls programme to record and monitor outcomes and to deliver best practice and engage in peer support, as well as work towards developing the evidence base for mentoring in the field of early and effective intervention across the UK.

1. Project management. Specific responsibilities:

1. Recruitment, training and support for a team of volunteer mentors for the Y’sGirls Mentoring Programme
2. Delivery of training, recruitment, support and development for volunteer mentors.
3. Managing a caseload of young people
4. Planning and facilitating group work sessions for young people and volunteer mentors
5. To ensure 100% data required is collected and recorded on to relevant reporting databases.
6. To support and engage with the local and national programme evaluation and development of best practice.
7. Play a key role with professional partners in the identification, referral and monitoring of young people and ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are upheld.
8. Effective management of all aspects of the project including administration, budgeting and data collection.
9. Effective implementation and management of best practice policies and procedures.
10. To actively support service user involvement in the development of services.

1. To have significant input into the performance of the Team and organisation. Specific responsibilities:

1. To have input into, and work to Key Performance Indicators and specified outcomes, ensuring they are realistic and relevant to the organisational and project aims
2. To work to the organisational and project Aims and Objectives, as well as Training Needs Analysis
3. To facilitate a monitoring process for checking paperwork, files and risk assessments – both electronic and paper.
4. To keep records, minutes of meetings, documents and paperwork in an accessible format for the department
5. To build and maintain good working relationships with appropriate professionals in voluntary and statutory agencies and to ensure the Association participates in local forums and operates with good practice.

1. To carry out other duties that reasonably falls within the scope of the post. Specific

1. Responding to emergencies / crisis.
2. Attendance at meetings deemed appropriate by the Support Services Manager and YMCA England and Wales
3. Participation in training and supervision.
4. You must work constructively with other departments within the YMCA Cardiff Group.
5. Assisting with jobs that usually fall to another member of staff, but in whose absence, failure to carry out the work would present a risk or offence to others or would be detrimental to the organisation’s service provision.
6. To be able to respect the Christian ethos of the YMCA and uphold its values