Job Description

Job Overview

The Community Champion Co-Ordinator will be responsible for establishing and supporting a network of Community Champions across Lupset. This role will include coordinating outreach activities, making use of the mobile community centre (minibus) to connect with residents and promote community health and wellbeing, alongside staff at St George's. The postholder will also collaborate with partners and facilitate the Lupset Partnership Group, ensuring effective communication and shared learning. The Coordinator will also be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the impact of the Community Champions network and Lupset Partnerships Group.

This post has been created in collaboration with community partners working in Lupset and is part of Wakefield Council's Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities project. The post is initially funded for 3 years.

Areas of Responsibility

1. To support the delivery of high-quality group activities; after school, early evening and during school holidays.

2. To work with individuals and groups to ensure that programmes of work achieve planned outcomes.

3. To supervise and facilitate the delivery of a range of appropriate activities and opportunities both indoors and outdoors.

4. To contribute to planning which ensures that the individual needs and interests of children and young people are met.

5. To foster positive relationships with children, young people and their families.

6. To ensure that activities are inclusive and meet the needs of children and young people with SEND +. If appropriate working with the parents and/or other professionals to meet the needs of the child or young person.

7. To support the senior staff in ensuring that all the requirements of Health and Safety, and other relevant guidance and legislation are in place.

8. To work with children and young people to safeguard their welfare and support the team to provide a safe, caring environment where all children and young people are supported to reach their full potential.

9. To ensure that information about children; provided by parents, other team members and professionals is passed on to those who need to know and recorded as necessary, ensuring that the principles of confidentiality are maintained.

10. To support the Senior team to develop and maintain links with outside agencies.

B. People Management

11. To actively contribute to supervisions and appraisals to support your development and wellbeing.

12. To ensure that you maintain and update your professional knowledge and skills, keeping up to date with current guidance, policy and legislation.

13. To support the work volunteers, students in the organisation.

C. Operational and Business Management

14. To support senior staff to provide accurate up to date information and reports on the progress of individuals, activities and groups.

15. To comply with data protection and information sharing systems.

D. Safety, Equality & Diversity, Quality and Safeguarding

16. To comply with current guidance; legislation and the organisations safeguarding policies for children and vulnerable adults and follow procedures as required.

17. To comply with the organisations equality and diversity policy.

18. To support any work undertaken by the organisation aimed at maintaining and improving quality.

E. Scope of Responsibility

E1 -

Responsibility for Supervision, Direction of Employees

There would be an expectation to give guidance and support to volunteers and individuals on work experience as necessary.

E2

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Responsibility for Physical Resources

There will be occasional responsibility for physical resources.

Regular input of information on to electronic systems.

E3 -

Responsibility for Budgets

Occasional receipt of monies from children for activities.

Very occasional use of petty cash within petty cash procedure.

E4-

Level of Contacts, Customers and Clients

Regular dealings with children and young people.

Occasional meetings with other professionals both internal and external to discuss the progress of children and young people.

Working within the team to give and receive information in a timely and accurate way.

E5 -

Levels of Independence and Initiative

Contribution towards the planning of activities involving the children and young people

Responsible for planning contacts with young people.

Regular contact with Manager and Deputy Manager who will be available for reference purposes.

Major decisions would require the agreement of the Manager or Deputy Manager.

E5 -

Working Conditions and demands

Occasionally required to provide verbal or written information about the welfare of children, which can upset/distress or cause parents to become angry.

Rarely required to work within a customer's home.

Regularly required to move furniture and reset rooms.

Regularly required to work anti-social hours.

Regularly expected to work indoors and outdoors and off site.

Occasionally required to work outside normal working hours.

HOW TO APPLY

We have a four-stage application process made up of, an informal chat, formal competency-based application, working interview, and formal interviews. These four stages help us to assess your skills, abilities, knowledge and competencies and help you to get to know our organisation and job requirements.

Prior to submitting your application, please call for an informal chat with our CEO Berni O'Brien. This can be in person, on the phone or via teams. Visits are encouraged but we appreciate that this is not always practical. For more information, please contact our Human Resources and Business Support Administrator Tracy Scholey at recruitment@stgeorgeslupset.org.uk, or phone 01924 369631 to speak with Tracy.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 13.25-15.59 per hour

Expected hours: 18.5 per week

Benefits:

Bereavement leave Company pension Cycle to work scheme Free parking On-site parking Referral programme Sick pay
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 01/02/2026