What's involved with this role: Temporary Senior Volunteer Coordinator Reference no: AFC RQ1417123 Pay Rate: £12.83 per hour PAYE 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 3-4 months City: HACKNEY, LONDON Enhanced DBS disclosure required The role will include recruiting, training and supervising volunteers, ensuring they are well equipped to carry out their roles competently and confidently through the delivery of Volunteering led programmes that lead to positive and agreed outcomes for children in line with the organisational Business Plan aims objectives and contract requirement. Key Responsibilities: Developing meaningful volunteer roles, consulting with children, young people, and families if appropriate, and risk assessing volunteering activities. Supervising volunteers providing front-line delivery of services, which would include explicit responsibility for allocation of cases across all levels of the need-continuum, including safeguarding and child protection cases and arising issues Offering advice and information to potential volunteers and external organisations through face-to-face, telephone and email contact. Following the Safeguarding Framework and complying with local authority reporting procedures. Recruiting and engaging suitable volunteers in line with the Volunteering Policy, from external sources and service user groups as appropriate, following the safer recruitment policy. Coordinating the development, delivery and organisation of a training programme for volunteers, ensuring compliance with the organisation’s volunteer induction requirements. Ensuring volunteers are adequately supervised by appropriate colleagues, in accordance with the Volunteering Policy. Establishing suitable volunteer retention practices, to ensure that volunteers feel valued, included and informed. Ensuring volunteers’ details are stored securely and recorded on relevant local and national databases. Providing quarterly reports on the volunteering programme activities, outputs, and impact as requested. Qualifications: Good standard of education to minimum level 3 standards for example; BTech, NVQ L3, A Level. Knowledge: Working knowledge of Social Care, Children and/or Adults. Working knowledge of co-ordinating front-line service delivery and to demonstrate safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child Experience: Experience of working with vulnerable families and working within a safeguarding framework. Experience of organising and delivery of basic training Experience of managing staff and complex situations, using clear judgement to advise others to do the same Skills & Abilities: Demonstrable planning and organising skill, and to also prioritise to lead to review and evaluation of workloads and service provision. Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, able to work effectively with minimal supervision to meet challenging objectives and deadlines Good interpersonal skills and experience of working with community groups and volunteers on public events and activities. Ability to communicate information about the Volunteer Programme and to respond to queries, complaints and requests for information from diverse audiences. Ability to confidently and articulately champion volunteers Contributes to team/departmental objectives and decisions and an ability to work with others towards shared goals Effective use of IT applications appropriate to the role Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please