Sport Welfare Officer

The Service & Team:

Active Cornwall is part of a national network of 42 Active Partnerships collaborating with national partners and Uniting the Movement for Sport England in Cornwall tackling inactivity and reducing inequalities. We are hosted by Cornwall Council in the Community Wellbeing Directorate and part of the Communities Service.

In this role you would play a pivotal role in the 16-strong Active Cornwall team helping to drive Sport Englands response to The Whyte Review (published July 2022) in Cornwall. This review questioned the level of safeguarding responsibility delegated to volunteers at a regional/local level and included a proposal to fund a professional national network of Sport Welfare Officers in England.

The Sport Welfare Officer Network (SWO network) supports National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and their local clubs assisting and supporting club welfare officers. This is your opportunity to be an active part of a local regional and national network and make a difference here in Cornwall.

As our Sport Welfare Officer you will lead a portfolio of welfare related programmes contributing to Active Cornwalls vision where inequalities are no longer a barrier to an active life. This portfolio includes:

• Working with NGBs and their local clubs to promote good practice and create safer club environments and improved experiences for children young people and adults

• Ensuring good governance within Active Cornwall

• Complementing the work of the existing safeguarding structure inside and outside sport

• Holding relationships with statutory services such as the Local Authority Designated Officers (LADOs)

• Raising awareness of safeguarding with parents/carers and participants either inside or outside sport

• Sharing good practice locally and providing feedback to NGBs either sub-regionally regionally or nationally

• Contributing to the establishment of good welfare practice with safer club environments for participants and sports clubs moving from welfare compliance to effective safeguarding culture

Working Pattern:

This is a full-time (37 hours per week) fixed-term maternity cover role for 12 months to provide welfare support to the network of club welfare officers across Cornwall and successfully deliver the Sport England Sport Welfare Programme objectives.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of office outreach and home working. There is some out of hours work required to coincide meetings with the Club Welfare Officers many of whom are volunteers within their clubs.

What youll need to succeed:

You will be able to understand and focus on customer needs and work well with colleagues and partners taking responsibility for your work your environment and your development. You will be resourceful able to apply expertise and problem-solve to deliver good partner outcomes and possess excellent communication interpersonal and team working skills.

You will ideally have experience of welfare-related leadership qualifications and training in welfare related courses/awards and services alongside knowledge/understanding of professional welfare issues priorities policiesprocedures and infra-structure both outside and within sport. Skills in dispute resolution negotiation and mediation would be equally valuable as well as experience of workforce development and deployment within the welfare sectorincluding training networking and engagement with the voluntary sector.

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What youll get in return:

Active Cornwall is hosted by Cornwall Council. The Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We likewise commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees and offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• A competitive salaryband 3 (31870 - 39159 per annum)

• A defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

• 26 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays with the potential to purchase additional leave

• Access to national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Additional Information:

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

The full role profile is attached here

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Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

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