Community Leader -Youth Specialist Application Pack

enact community is the brand name of Enfield Island Youth & Community Trust EIYCT charity number 1109131. EIYCT Company number Registered office: c/o Unit 12 Island Centre Way, , Enfield, EN3 6GS This page is intentionally left blank Thank you for your interest in our ‘enact Community enact’s sustainable core funding offers a unique Leader - Youth Specialist post. opportunity for our Youth Specialist to develop new ways to support identified targeted needs, and use Our Youth Specialist is responsible for the leadership their creativity to develop our programme. and development of our activities for young people aged 11-19. They are accountable to the ‘enact Our Youth Specialist will stand out with their passion, Community Leader’ who manages the charitable energy and commitment to community building. They operation and you will be responsible for leading will demonstrate the essential skills of the Person specialist Practitioners and youth and adult volunteers. Specification with examples from their experience and Our staff team lead specialist areas of our provision will show a willingness to keep learning. but have the exciting opportunity to get involved We welcome the opportunity to discuss any aspect of across a broad age range. the role or the details of this pack. We look forward to We are looking for a committed and dedicated hearing from you! professional who is passionate about investing in individuals and the community. Our ‘Community Leader Youth Specialist’ will need to have experience of working in a diverse community across the 11-19’s age range and have great management skills to plan and deliver an engaging youth programme. They will be an enthusiastic team player, using their broad skill to enable the team to achieve its strategic goals. enact is set up to build a positive community. We are looking for specialists who understand a culture of participation; encouraging the community to ‘join in’. We talk about ‘participants’ not ‘service-users’. Our mission is to... Our cultural values encourage engage encourage engage we start what we can sustain. we are welcoming. access to participate to raise aspiration: discover and explore new opportunities: positive relationships are built activities is ‘universal’, support see your true potential achieve what you can dream on trust is personalised. enjoy enhance enjoy enhance we are ‘chaotic family’, we don’t provisions are ‘all through’ and include create the society we all want: independence to interdependence: ask for perfect. We are every age. we are ‘multi-generational’ be included and treated equally being a benefit to others ‘participants’, not ‘service-users’ everyone can contribute to help others. the enact About us s t o r y enact is a community charity, set up in 2003, Enfield Island 2003 that supports the children, young people The enact staff team Youth & and families who mainly live in Community Trust To be sustainable we offer ‘permanent’ EIYCT opens our and Enfield Island Village. We are based in youth centre for contracts with a session staffing model based 13-19 year olds the North East corner of the on ‘1x Staff + 2x Sessional + Volunteers’. Staff Borough of Enfield. 2007 EIYCT creates work hard but work together. We avoid ‘silo’ partnership with Our history can be found on our website, but and encourage cross-over projects. We Oasis. Mezzanine floor to expand our story is simple, we are a group of discourage hierarchy and we promote team youth centre community workers, children, young people, working. We encourage personalised families and volunteers who share life. We professional development and learning. 2010 EIYCT / Oasis exist to encourage and strengthen a great Church pilot Kids Club community; to become the best version of The enact centre - our venue 2011 ourselves, and create a place where Kids Club We run our own dedicated youth and receives Big together we can all thrive. Lottery Grant community centre. The staff team work at the Each month, over 200 children, young centre and we seek to be available and open ‘club sixeight’ people and adults from the local community every day. 2012 Family Provision take part in enact recreational and leisure We opened our youth centre in 2003, and expands with activities, and are supported through community refurbished in 2007 and 2015 as we adapted to garden & large advocacy, mentoring, training and support. events meet the identified needs of the community.

RESTORE project to work with Local Life gangs Enfield Island is a development of 1200 homes, Kids Club Infants a commercial small business centre and for 4-7’s ‘village’ hub with a GP surgery, Gym, Tesco 2013 Targeted express, take-away and pharmacy. Opened in interventions 2000, Enfield Island Village borders within Oasis Academy and with great transport links by road (A10/M25) and rail (over-ground to Volunteer Training Hale/Liverpool St). The City of 2015 EIYCT rebrands London is 45 minutes by train and the famous as ‘enact’ less than fifteen minutes. The First Annual Awards Evening London Borough of Enfield is home to over 300,000 people, but Enfield Island is

2017 surrounded by the , Lea Navigation, a Kids Club Tots conservation area and Reservoir. It sits within

After-school 2018 the Lee Valley, home of the 2012 Olympic Park. Drop-in We have links to housing providers who might be able to offer affordable housing options. ...and beyond! How we deliver our vision

Age related provision

Our activities are age-related to be relevant and appropriate, but our values are consistent throughout so that children can transition smoothly between activities and families can receive support through every stage of their child’s and families development.

We are ‘working with the whole family’, not silo age groups. Our staff team see themselves as ‘community leaders’ who specialise in developing outstanding age-related provisions. We encourage cross- over working and staff support each other to deliver a full programme.

As our Youth Specialist could you be the right person to deliver our youth and community strategy? We are looking for someone who understands the unique opportunities that charitable community ‘informal education’ can create, as well as the discipline of youth work in a formal education setting, and will use those opportunities to achieve meaningful outcomes with a positive impact for participants.

Programme—term time and holiday

Each week we currently open our centre for 15.5 hours of clubs and groups, as well as running 6 school lunch club sessions. In addition we regularly support young people and families with additional targeted interventions based in our youth centre or in local primary and secondary schools.

In the school holidays we take the opportunity to run activities that do not work in term-time evenings, such as trips, residential, extended workshops, open-days, sports tournaments.

Increasingly community participants are gaining the confidence to ‘be in the lead’ to suggest and develop new programmes and activities. In Autumn Term 2019 we will be facilitating adult training, additional evening activities and targeted youth interventions.

Special events in our annual calendar

Each year we host a ‘Community Celebration Evening’ to recognise the achievement of enact participants. We host a ‘thank you’ Summer BBQ and Christmas meal for volunteers as well as a monthly ‘volunteer lunch’. We host Christmas and summer celebrations in our clubs. We are using ‘sponsored fundraising’ activities to help young people and families contribute to enact’s financial sustainability.

Partnerships

We celebrate long term partnerships with the RSA Trust, Jack Petchey, Oasis Community Partnerships, Oasis Hub Enfield Lock and Hadley, Enfield Voluntary Action, London Borough of Enfield, as well as local business and other charitable organisations and churches. Strategic Direction

What are you joining in with How you can invest & grow

Are you the sort of person who wants to be trusted to identify need and bring creative solutions? With new grant funding in place, we are looking to grow. Are you the professional who wants to develop your personal professional skills and make a significant difference in a vibrant and diverse community?

Enact is at an exciting stage of its growth. We have been open for 16 years with consistent provision and huge growth in our understanding of the local need and how our provision can build community. We have established a clear vision, a cohesive set of values and a consistent culture. We have become ‘all through’ and include every generation. We have developed a sustainable financial model and strengthened our board of Trustees. We believe the Youth Specialist role is exciting and challenging for a creative, passionate professional.

Strategic Focuses

In September 2018 we began a three year strategy to build our vision with four areas of focus. Working towards ‘Engagement to Investment’ where participants are actively supported to move from simple ‘attendance’ of provision into volunteering and ‘leading’ their development; transitioning effectively between age-related provision, investing over the long term. Offering ‘Meaningful training that equips and builds confidence’ so participants gain the skills they need to open up their own life chances and have confidence in their own voice to change their own circumstances and contribute to developing their community. Working towards ‘Sustainable Infrastructure’ which includes strengthening its staff, sessional and volunteer base, diversifying funding streams, and including the community in fundraising. To increase the community ‘Awareness, Invitation and Access’ that enact is here, that all are included and welcome, and there is a place for everyone who wants to engage. Job Descriptions

How employment works at enact

enact works in partnership with Oasis Hub Enfield Lock in order to employ full time workers. A Service Level Agreement governs the funding and HR relationship where the enact team are employed by Oasis but deliver enact provision. The enact staff team are line managed by enact Trustees and remain accountable to them for delivering the enact strategic objectives and effective provision.

Organisation Chart

Trustees (x3) Chair of Trustees

Trustee Advisors (x3) Administrator Enact Community Leader

Community Leader - Youth Specialist The post-holder will deliver a full programme of Enact Community Enact Community Enact Community recreational activities, learning and community Leader Leader - Children Administrator support for young people aged 11-19. They will use Youth Specialist & Family Specialist our youth centre, detached work or local school settings to suit the outcome. Their focus will be on developing youth participation. The Youth Specialist will lead the youth strategy under the guidance of our Community Leader and will Enact Community manage the youth practitioners and oversee the Enact Community Children’s management of our 11-19’s provision’ Youth Practitioners Practitioners

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Job Descriptions and Person Specifications

You can read our Job Description and person specification below. We encourage all applicants to arrange an informal discussion with the enact Trustees to discuss the opportunities on offer. Principle terms of employment

Location: the post is based at the Enact Youth Centre, Enfield Island Village, Enfield, EN3 6GS. The post holder will also deliver projects at the , EN3 7XH. The post Contract: this is a permanent, full time contract, holder does not need to live in Enfield but will be subject to an initial six month probation period. required to travel and work for enact at other locations in Enfield from time to time. Holidays: in addition to the usual 8 Public/Bank Holidays, the post holder will be entitled to Package: This post-holder will benefit from a annual leave of 25 days per year (1st September competitive salary, inclusive of a London to 31st August). After two years service this will Allowance, negotiable based on qualifications increase to 30 days per year and then one extra and experience. The post holder will be day per year up to 33 days per year. The post- automatically enrolled into the Company holder is entitled to one months sabbatical on Stakeholder pension scheme with an employer’s completion of six years service. contribution of 7% and no requirements to make employee’s contributions. Right to work in the UK: under Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, it is a criminal Hours of work: this is a full-time appointment of offence to employ an individual who does not 40 hours per week (inclusive of breaks). have permission to work in the UK. Therefore, all Working hours are usually from Monday to offers of employment are made subject to the Friday but there will be some occasional production of documentary evidence of such weekend working. The post-holder will be permission, e.g. passport or other Home Office required to work a minimum of two evenings per authorised documentation. Shortlisted week with additional evening work required on candidates will be asked to bring this occasion, for which Time-in-Lieu is given documentation to an interview.

How to apply

Please send your CV with a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and reason for applying to [email protected]. For an informal conversation, please feel free to call James on 07825 087252.

Our interview process will consist of a formal interview, an activity appropriate to the post-holders responsibilities, and being observed in practice in a community session.

The role will be advertised until filled. encourage engage enjoy enhance

All of the photos used in this pack were taken at enact provisions and demonstrate the broad range of activities, events and opportunities that we hope you will be part of helping us deliver in the future.