YFCL Area Co-ordinator
Service: Youth Family and Community Learning
Grade scale: Grade 3 Level 8
Reports to: Youth Family and Community Learning Locality Manager
Purpose of the job
- To develop and maintain a Youth, Family and Community Learning Service, which is centred on the needs of learners.
- To ensure the delivery of a targeted high quality CLD learning offer in local communities.
- To improve life chances for people of all ages, through learning, personal development and active citizenship and enable communities to be stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive.
- To incorporate an assessment of the needs of learners and arrange/manage an appropriate service response involving Team Leaders/Officers/Workers, professional, sessional and external agency services.
- To lead team/s of staff and manage facilities.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Responsible for the co-ordination of area wide consultation events that develop and review council strategic plans, such as Youth Action Plan/ Community Learning and Development Plan.
- In collaboration with Heads of Services, Headteachers, local elected members, and MSPs, devise strategies to maximise partnership working with statutory/non-statutory and voluntary organisations in order to attain best value, maximise resources, increase quality service provision, avoid duplication, and assist in the community planning process in localities.
- Secure, manage and monitor external funding for local / council wide service projects by writing up funding bids, recruiting partners, and devising processes to oversee and evaluate bid.
- Assist in the development/agreement of Service Level Agreements with Community/Voluntary Organisations.
- Develop, manage and evaluate the delivery of Local Area Plans for the Youth, Family and Community Learning Service which contributes to the Service Improvement Plan.
- Represent the Youth, Family and Community Leaning Service and contribute to council wide Strategic/Planning and Corporate groups, such as Community Learning and Development Plan, Youth Action Plan, ALN Strategy.
- Devise a Public Relations strategy for local Universal Connections facilities, area bases and associated work.
Person specification
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Desirable |
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Education, qualification and training |
Member of, or working towards, membership of the CLD Standards Council Scotland. |
Appropriate qualification in CLD. |
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Skills, knowledge, experience |
Demonstrate the ability to lead a team, to develop and facilitate a cohesive, high quality, inclusive learning offer across communities in a variety of settings that meets the identified needs of learners and communities and improves life chances for people of all ages. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment. Experience of preparing, monitoring and reporting on, funding bids at local and/or national level. Experience of coordinating and motivating staff to engage with individuals and communities to build positive relationships and explore the development of learning opportunities across a range of needs. Experience of coordinating staff to develop, plan and deliver a diverse range of educational, social and personal development opportunities based on identified needs to improve life chances and achieve positive outcomes for all learners. Experience of identifying, developing and delivering training opportunities, as appropriate, to improve staff knowledge and development of staff, partners and volunteers. Demonstrate experience in initiating, developing, engaging in and sustaining appropriate and effective partnerships. Demonstrate experience of using a range of monitoring and evaluation processes to measure the impact of areas of work. |
Experience of delivering nationally recognised and accredited awards. Good ICT skills. Ability to oversee the development of literacy and numeracy-based programmes with learners. Ability to oversee the development and delivery of family/parental learning opportunities. A good understanding of trauma-informed practices and how trauma can affect behaviour and learning. |
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Personal qualities |
Demonstrate the ability to lead and work as part of a team. Responsive and supportive approach to staff, volunteers and learners. Flexibility and adaptability. Excellent communication and report writing skills. High levels of motivation and enthusiasm. |
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Other |
A requirement for working evenings and weekends. The ability to travel within South Lanarkshire’s geographic areas as required. To demonstrate behaviours consistent with honesty and openness: treating people consistently, fairly and with respect. |
Current driving licence |
Safer recruitment checks
As part of our approach to good practice and safer recruitment we carry out a number of pre-employment checks
- Asylum and Immigration right to work in the UK.
- Reference check: external candidates require 2 references, one of which must be from present or most recent employer; Internal candidates require 1 reference from current line manager.
- Candidate Disclosure Scotland check, where applicable.
Behaviour framework
The council’s behaviour framework is a set of core behaviours that defines how employees approach work to enable the delivery of key tasks for the role. The expected behaviours for this role are:
Efficient
- Use initiative and drive to improve and develop systems and processes to increase efficiency achieving better outcomes in service delivery.
- Suggests ways to improve how others organise their own work.
- As a manager or professional/expert you actively seek solutions to deliver improvements and involves others in the development of solutions and improvements.
- Agrees SMART objectives for both team and individual employees reviewing progress to achieve successful outcomes.
- Manage budgets with no overspends and applying the council’s financial policies and procedures.
- Ensures sustainability and environmental awareness practices are being implemented and that they inform the development of new projects/initiatives.
Flexible
- Anticipates and responds flexibly to changing priorities and modifies practice to meet changing environment.
- Identifies and implements new ways of working.
- Supports individuals and team at times of both organisational and personal change making appropriate adjustments to accommodate individual needs where required.
- Expresses a positive approach to change and promotes the benefits of change to team and colleagues.
- Actively listens to customer feedback and takes action to improve customer experience.
Performing
- Use professional expertise and knowledge to ensure the council is leading best practice to improve outcomes.
- Ensure that the council is meeting it’s legislative and statutory requirements by keeping abreast of new initiatives and legislation.
- Evaluates and reviews the impact of service improvements from the customers perspective.
- Identifies trends and creates solutions.
- Ensuring that health and safety practices, policies and procedures are applied keeping employees and customers safe and minimising workplace accidents and injuries.
- Implements the council’s maximising attendance policy and procedure ensuring action is taken and recorded on people connect.
- Considers risk in the context of service development and delivery.
Working with others
- Promotes a positive team environment with good morale.
- Works with other teams and colleagues internally and externally, developing relationships and sharing knowledge, ideas and expertise to achieve outcomes.
- Provide objective and constructive advice and support if tensions arise.
- Shares knowledge with internal and external colleagues to achieve common objectives.
- Giving praise and recognition for good work.
- Use professional identity and expert knowledge to work across disciplines breaking down professional barriers to improve outcomes for individuals and communities.
- Encourages colleagues to consider different perspectives in their work.
- Adapts communication to encourage desired behaviour.
Leading
- Understands what needs to be achieved and ensures that this is communicated to team members.
- Expresses positive expectations of others to support their development.
- Recognise individual and team achievements thanking and praising others.
- Maintain a positive approach and motivate team when things go wrong, or demands are high.
- You identify talent and provide opportunities for those individuals who wish to progress or learn new skills.
- Takes responsibility for personal and team development needs taking account of learning styles and available learning/training methods of delivery.
- Uses professional judgement/expert knowledge to make informed decisions.