Health & Wellbeing Community Coach - Empower

Location

Hertfordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Health & Wellbeing Community Coach - Empower  

Salary: £16.75 per hour

Location: Watford/ St Albans/ Hemel Hempstead 

Contract type: Casual 

Project times:  Empower   runs every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evening from 5pm - 8pm

Reporting to:  Empower Project Officer

Summary of your Role: 

Empower is a free six month project that aims to improve young people’s mental health using physical activity. Each session is 90 minutes in length and consists of 60 minutes of physical activity, typically in the form of a sport session such as dodgeball, football, basketball, badminton, or dance. Following the physical activity, we complete a 30-minute wellbeing workshop, which is a facilitated conversation between participants, Watford FC Community Sports and Education Trust Coaches and a NESSie psychotherapist.

As a Watford FC CSE Trust sports coach you will be responsible for delivering the 60 minutes of, physical activity for 9- 12 year olds, with the support of another coach. You will aim to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of our participants through providing innovative, fun and engaging games and activities.

Your Roles and Responsibilities, but Not Limited To

• Plan and prepare high quality physical activity sessions for the participants with other coaches.
• Be flexible to adapt physical activity sessions depending on the needs of the participants.
  
• Deliver sport sessions, with the support of a coach, for 60 mins.
  
• Create a positive, excitement and safe environment for young people to promote improvement in their mental and physical well-being.
  
• Uphold Watford FC CSE Trust safeguarding practice, including reporting concerns to relevant staff.
  
• Understand the Trust’s equality, diversity and inclusivity policy and demonstrate them in your professional practice.

General Responsibilities

• To actively demonstrate and promote the Trust’s core values through your work.
• Adhere to the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the development of a culture of continuous improvement within the Trust.
• To work in partnership with all the Club’s departments on community initiatives as identified by the Community Director and Board of Trustees.
• To actively promote the Trust in a positive and professional manner at all times.
• To undertake any other duties which might reasonably be deemed within the status of the job and appropriate to the post.

You Must Have

• A thorough understanding of mental health and it’s impact on young people.
• Experience working with challenging behaviours
• Experience working with children and young people
• Some level of experience coaching/ working within sports 

You Ideally Would Have

• A valid safeguarding qualification.
• A valid First Aid qualification.
• A valid mental health first aid certificate.
• Any relevant sport qualifications.

About Us

Watford Football Club’s Community Sports and Education Trust is a registered charity that has been proudly supporting people and communities for over thirty years, as originally established by Graham Taylor OBE and Sir Elton John. We continue this legacy today by engaging people of all ages and backgrounds through high-quality community-based initiatives and services.

Our Vision: Improving lives, enhancing communities.

Our Mission: Making a positive difference for all through sport, physical activity, and learning.

Our Values: To be honest, reliable, and trustworthy - Integrity. To be inclusive in all our decision-making - Inclusivity. To be bold and creative in the way we work - Innovation.

Our Culture: We are a values-based and vision-driven charity, who put our people and our beneficiaries at the heart of everything we do and why we do it.

Benefits of Working for Us:

• Chance to join an award-winning charity and work alongside colleagues who are determined to utilise the positive power of sport, physical activity and learning for social good.
• Friendly working environment
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Investors in People accreditation
• Opportunity to benefit from a range of training and development programmes
• Staff kit

Our Commitment to You

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI): We are dedicated to fostering a diverse and dynamic working environment by building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Safeguarding:

We provide a safe and secure environment for all. We believe Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & adults is everyone responsibility. Everyone in the organisation has a role to play, to ensure that Trust policies, procedures and practices in regard to safeguarding are followed.

Application process

If you meet the initial qualifying criteria, you will be sent a link to our application form to complete and move your application to the next stage of the process.

If you require any further information or wish to discuss the opportunity, please contact [email protected]

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