Action for Children

Senior Volunteer Coordinator

London

£33.2k/yr

Posted about 15 hours ago

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Role: Senior Volunteer Coordinator

Salary: £29,900.00 per annum PLUS Inner London Allowance £3333.00

Location: Central London Based

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full Time - Hours: 37 hours per week – Monday to Friday and occasional weekend and evenings.

Benefits:

Over 7 weeks inclusive paid leave and the option to buy or sell leave.
Excellent training and the opportunity to undertake professional training for some roles.
Flexible maternity, paternity and adoption packages.
Up to 5% employer contribution and life assurance cover.
Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts at 15,000 national retailers.

At Action for Children, we offer more than just a job. Join us and you’ll be part of a team dedicated to giving children safe and happy childhoods. See how your skills can make a real difference, helping solve the problems children and young people face every day.

About the Service

The London Independent Visitors Service is a dynamic project that enables children in care to develop a long-lasting relationship with a trusted adult volunteer.

In this role, you will lead a team of volunteers that will support children having fun, exploring their interests and being a trusted role model hopefully for life. You will be key ensuring we recruit the right volunteers for our children and supporting children and volunteers alike developing safe and enriching relationships. Working alongside a diverse and supportive team, this is an opportunity for you to have a key role in the ongoing development of this flagship service so that we can continue to provide excellent services to children and young people.

How you'll make a difference:

By recruiting inspiring volunteers who can act as positive role models to children in care.
By indirectly overseeing the activities between the volunteers and young people, ensuring they are safe, stimulating and fun.
By demonstrating the benefits of the service to social work teams and commissioners and facilitating ongoing referrals.
By publicising and promoting volunteering opportunities with individuals, community groups, professionals, and other relevant agencies and to scrutinise applications from potential volunteers.
By ensuring young people in care are benefitting from supportive and caring relationships with their volunteers that positively impact their wellbeing and life chances.

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What you'll need:

A minimum Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent in a related field (e.g. teaching).
Experience and/or skills in volunteer recruitment, training, and supervision.
Ability to liaise with a wide range of individuals (e.g. social workers, foster carers, young people).
Excellent writing skills (e.g. to compile quarterly reports to local authorities).

Why Action for Children?

Every child should have a loving home, food, warmth, the chance to grow and learn - the support to cope with life’s challenges. But too many children don’t. By bringing your passion and unique skills and experience, you’ll help us change that where it really matters.

We've been driven by love to take action for children for over 150 years, giving them the protection and practical help they need. A lot’s changed since 1869. But what children really need, hasn’t. So as long as children need us, we’ll be here.

Will you join us?

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Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

If you require any support with the application process, please contact Sarah Manderfield at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13451

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to thrive. We know that racism and discrimination create barriers, and we’re taking active steps to challenge these inequalities in our organisation and in the communities we serve.

We strongly welcome applications from people who are Black, Asian, or from other racialised and ethnically marginalised communities, as well as disabled people, who are currently under‑represented in our workforce. We are committed to removing barriers in our recruitment processes and ensuring fair access to opportunities.

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We also encourage applications from men, who are under‑represented in our Children’s Services roles. We recognise that people hold multiple identities, and we value the richness this brings to our team.

Care leavers covenant

Action for Children have signed up as a care leaver friendly employer and applied the covenant principals across all our Nations to support care experienced people to get a job in our organisation and thrive while they are employed by us.

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