Kicks Lead Coach
- Everton Football Club
- Everton, Liverpool, UK
- 27 Nov, 2024
Job Description
We are a football club with a desire to be the best and are always looking for talented people to join our Everton Family.
Everton is a workplace people crave to join, where extraordinary talented people belong, thrive and deliver the remarkable.
Kicks Lead Coach
ho are we: Since 1988, Everton in the Community has become a dynamic force for good, harnessing the unifying power of football to drive social change and addressing societal challenges across Liverpool City Region. Supported by a team of over 130 full-time staff and over 200 volunteers, the independently governed and independently financed charity offers an extensive array of more than 60 programmes and initiatives that tackle a diverse range of social issues. These programmes cover areas such as health, employability, anti-social behaviour, crime, exploitation, education, dementia, and disability.
Everton in the Community stands firmly beside the most at-risk and most in need members of its local communities, but the needs of the city are ever-growing and ever evolving.
About the opportunity: Everton in the Community is seeking to appoint a Kicks Lead Coach to work alongside the Kicks Senior Coordinator and Youth Inclusion Manager to, implement and deliver a programme of support across our Kicks sites. The role will focus on delivery to female participants across sport and football but will also include some youth and targeted support work to identified individuals and groups.
Our Youth Inclusion team, targets at risk and vulnerable young people aged 8-19 years old, At Kicks, our main aim is to give children, young people, and their families the support and opportunities to develop social skills, gain qualifications, improve health and well-being and have new experiences in a safe and friendly environment. We also aim to provide female participants with opportunities within football and sport raising aspirations of our children and young people, with a clear goal of them having a safe transition in to adulthood and reaching their full potential.
Other key responsibilities will include:
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Supporting the Kicks Senior Coordinator and Youth Inclusion Manager to ensure that young people are recruited, developed, engaged and monitored in line with Everton in the Community guidelines
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To plan, deliver and evaluate high quality football/sports sessions at venues across Merseyside
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To support with the delivery of activities at our youth zones (if required)
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To lead on female only after school sessions within targeted schools inspiring young women through sport
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To support small targeted group sessions to groups of young people
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To lead on our female sports offer across evening venues ensuring that sessions are engaging and inclusive
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In consultation with key personnel complete risk assessments to determine the types of suitable activity for the young person to be involved in
Safeguarding
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To understand the Club’s Safeguarding policy, procedures, and best practice guidelines.
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To use this understanding to ensure safe working practices, appropriate reporting of concerns and contribute positively to an Anti-bullying environment.
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Ensure Safeguarding and Healthy and Safety Processes are implemented in line with Everton in the Community guidelines
Who we are looking for: We are looking for an individual who has experience of working with young people who display challenging behavior and have or are at risk of being criminally exploited.
Our successful candidate will also demonstrate the following skills, knowledge and experience:
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Level 2 FA Football Award
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Experience of delivering in schools and educational establishments
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Experience of working within a Youth Work setting
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Knowledge of policy and procedures relating to working with young people
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A track record planning, organising and overseeing youth/community led initiatives
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Ability to stay calm and make decisions in pressurised situations
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Ability to work with and handle young people who show challenging behaviour
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Ability to work as part of a team and pro-actively as an individual
Everton FC Careers
We are Everton Football Club and are one of the icons of world club football. As one of the bastions of the global game, with a rich and successful history, we are now setting our sights on a new, exciting future.
Our values underpin how we behave, how we represent our club in our city, and across the world of football, and how we look after one another daily. They provide a framework for how we work with partners, suppliers, and most importantly our fans.
Everton, 'the people's club,' is a mainstay in English football dating back to a time when Everton's Mere Green development was the first 'major' football stadium in the country. Today's facilities at Goodison Park are a little different, of course, but the passion and loyalty of its supporters, coupled with the values of the club, stands as strong as it once did.
With Everton's plans for a new 52,888 capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool approaching, perhaps now is the perfect time to begin a career at Everton Football Club. Now under Farhad Moshiri's management, the club has its sights firmly set on improving both on and off the football pitch. The opportunities which the new project will bring to Liverpool are vast, and it will likely mean that jobs at Everton FC will be hot property.
Although there is a feeling of genuine change at Everton FC, spearheaded by the legendary Carlo Ancelotti, the sense of family and togetherness is still at the core of the club's day to day running. Everton FC boasts such values and is recognised as a family-orientated club with proud traditions. A career at Everton FC should be considered for those reasons alone, as Amanda Chatterton, Community Business Development Manager at Everton FC , highlights in her staff testimonial on the club's website, "It has been amazing from day one. Family is the most important thing to Everton. It has been my family from both working life and personal. People are friendly and supportive, and I have built some great relationships. The fact that we are in The Sunday Times Top 100 companies to work for says it all. It really is a pleasure to come into work every day."
The inclusion of Everton FC in The Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for in 2019 is recognisable for what it is within the club; a fantastic achievement. This recognition was largely thanks to Everton implementing several employee initiatives, including groups for the workforce, such as the LGBT+ Network and The Women's network. The Toffees were the first football club ever to be named on the list, highlighting just how appealing jobs at Everton FC are to jobseekers.
The organisation presents a diverse workforce across a variety of different roles and sectors, with benefits including but not limited to:
- Living Wage Employer
- Over 39% of the workforce earning over £35k
- Sunday Times Top 100 Companies 2019 - voted 71st in the UK
- The Workplace Wellbeing Charter accredited
- Locality - Royal Liver Building, Goodison Park / New Development, and USM Finch Farm training complex
- Everton FC offers either free gym/ sports facilities or subsidised gym membership
- The club provides support for non-work related training
If the type of inclusive family-orientated workplace that Everton strives to promote sounds like it would complement your aspirations, maybe a career at Everton FC, or their related charity - Everton in the Community - is for you.