Team Leader

We're a small charity that makes a huge difference to the lives of children and young people. We operate two centres, one near the coast in Cornwall and one in the Derbyshire Peak District. This year we aim to welcome 1000 children on residential breaks, all year round, and we have ambitions to grow this number., As Team Leader you will be responsible for ensuring the organisation, smooth running and day-to-day quality of our breaks. These are residential breaks for small groups of children aged 8 - 13 who are facing challenges. We offer a safe, nurturing, and fun escape from their everyday lives.

You will ensure that fun, creative and adventurous activities are delivered in a safe and inspiring manner, making the most of our amazing centre, with their access to the countryside, along with ensuring the provision of evening and overnight supervision.

This is a year-round, full-time position which currently involves working Monday to Friday. Your working day will vary as we run a rota of both day and overnight residential duties. You will be responsible for planning the breaks, including working with our Referral Coordinators to understand the needs of the children coming to us, planning the activities onsite as well as organising offsite visits, and making sure we have all the staff and volunteers we need to make the break a success.

This role includes managing a small team of break leaders, including recruitment, training, and supervision. You will need to spend time on the break to watch them in action and offer your support. You will also need to cover any periods of absence. This means there will be some overnight duties included.

Our break Leaders currently work on a rota of two weeks on and one week off, giving us some flexibility for other visitors to enjoy our sites during these 'options weeks'.

You will also have up to four volunteers joining the residential break every week who will need to be trained, supported and guided.

Scope and Purpose:

The Team Leader role is to oversee and help deliver high quality, safe breaks for the children and young people visiting our centres. You will develop and manage the Break Leader team to inspire, enthuse and guide groups of children throughout the break, promoting lasting positive memories and learning in line with Go Beyond policies, procedures and mission statement. This includes an awareness of and a keenness to share your love of the outdoors and the special environments around our centres. You will make sure the children receive the best break possible by maintaining high quality delivery and ensuring that the health and welfare of the children is never compromised. You will understand the potential of our centres and will work with the Centre Manager and Senior Leaders to think about how even more children could benefit from them in addition to our own residential breaks.

Key Responsibilities

Planning and delivery of breaks:

·Responsible for the safety and welfare of children and young people on Go Beyond breaks, including intervening with the ongoing behavioural and pastoral care of our children.

·Responsible for reporting all safeguarding concerns that arise to the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (Centre Manager)

·Maintain up to date training of essential knowledge to ensure best practice.

·Engaging and empowering staff to develop inspiring and varied weekly breaks programme.

·Effective liaison with Referral Agents, parents and internal staff as required during the breaks.

·Responsible for developing new external activity delivery partners, ensuring best value and completing the necessary due diligence.

·To proactively review and improve the delivery of breaks.

·Support Break Leaders in their deployment of the break volunteers.

·To undertake regular risk assessments and take any necessary action to avoid potential health and safety hazards and ensure effective safeguarding.

·Liaise with the Centre Manager to develop a range of centre-based programmes for our Option Weeks and alternative users of our facilities.

Leading the Team:

· Responsible for managing and training of the Break Leaders,

· Manage the Breaks Leader rota, ensuring appropriate cover for annual leave and absence.

·To provide effective guidance to the Break Leaders to ensure the satisfactory completion of break related administrative tasks.

·To be a responsible role model and act towards everyone with understanding, care, and positive enthusiasm at all times.

Administration:

·Manage the weekly budget for the break activities and help the Centre Manager with longer-term financial planning as required.

· Responsible for communicating to our fundraising and marketing team, case studies and appropriate photos.

General duties:

·Deputise for the Centre Manager as required.

·Comply with and promote all Go Beyond policies and procedures.

·Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

·Must be aged 21 or over, with a full UK valid driver's license, held for a minimum of 1 year.

·Experience of working with vulnerable and sometimes challenging children, preferably in a residential setting.

·Knowledge and understanding of child protection issues and safeguarding.

·Experience of leading and training a team.

·Possess the ability to apply sound, mature judgement to make decisions, particularly when dealing with challenging or sensitive situations.

·Excellent communicator, both written and oral, and able to communicate effectively with a broad range of people.

·Experience of and enthusiasm for delivering child-centred activities, including a range of challenging, creative, and sporting activities and understanding their potential in a child's personal development.

·Experience in managing a budget.

·Experience of producing and reviewing risk assessments and safe practice guidelines.

·The ability to use standard Microsoft Office IT

·Qualified first aider.

Desirable:

·Professional qualifications relevant to the role.

·Experience of working with volunteers - understanding how they can benefit the charity.

·Minibus D1 driving license.

Behaviours:

·Committed to Equality of Opportunity and anti-discriminatory practices

·Collaborative and inclusive attitude to team work both within the centre and the wider charity.

·Can-do, solution focused approach

·Able to represent and promote Go Beyond in a positive light to a range of audiences and visitors to support the development of our work.

·Continue to develop the knowledge and skills required to fulfil the responsibilities of the position.

Pulled from the full job description

• Company pension


• Discounted or free food


• Free parking


• On-site parking


• Sick pay