Day Service Coordinator

Job Summary:

The Day Service Coordinator is responsible for facilitating and developing our day services in the boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham. You will also be responsible for organising regular tea dances throughout the year, cultural celebrations, ad hoc day trips and outings.

Main Responsibilities:

- To maintain existing day services whilst striving to develop the day services in line with the needs and preferences of our clients i.e. introducing a variety of activities, inviting speakers on specialist subjects, organising day trips to places of interest etc.
- To provide structure, support and supervision to the volunteers at each venue.

Day to day responsibilities include the following:

- Welcoming new and existing clients ensuring they feel comfortable and ‘at home’ and to nurture a professional working relationship with them
- Encouraging current and future clients to develop and achieve their interests by providing an ageing well approach to ensure that they are involved in the Project
- Recruiting local volunteers to assist in the day services, providing them with support and in-house training to ensure they are suitably equipped to perform the tasks required
- Developing outside activities/groups for members to become/remain active e.g. tea dances, walking groups etc.
- Setting out furniture and everyday equipment as required
- Keeping accurate records in the format as instructed by your supervisor to include managing daily cash flow

Special Conditions
- An enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references are required for this post - The post holder must hold a current clean driving licence and have use of a car
- The post holder must be willing to attend occasional weekend/evening events

This is an extremely rewarding role, as well as facilitating the current day services (i.e. satellites in SW2, SE14 & SE16) part of your time as our Day Service Coordinator will be spent getting to know our clients and their families and carers to enable you to create tailored activity programmes focused on maximising everyone's wellbeing, independence and social engagement.

You'll need to be warm, empathetic and energetic to join us as our Day Service Coordinator. Your organisational skills mean you always get things done and make things happen. Meanwhile, your enthusiasm and creative approach will inspire our pensioners, volunteers and staff to get involved in activities both within the satellite day services and in the local community. You will need use of a car as there is a lot of ‘toing and froing’ from the different venues for which we provide a mileage allowance.

Southwark Irish Pensioners Project (SIPP) opened as a lunch club in 1994 for older Irish people in LB Southwark and surrounding areas (LB Lambeth & Lewisham). Over the years, we have grown providing day and community services.

We currently provide a comprehensive community support service that offers walk-in advice and information (currently by appointment on Tuesday and Thursday) advocacy, outreach, befriending (currently via telephone) and carer support to older Irish people living in south London and we are gradually re-opening our pub outreach and hospital visiting schemes.

Our satellite day services were closed during the pandemic which gave us an opportunity to review and refresh Our services and we can now offer an exciting opening for the right person.
We work to our core values which are
· to ensure our clients are central to the development of our services
· to respect each person’s dignity and
· to support our clients to feel valued members of society so they can enjoy a happy and dignified retirement.
A key element of all workers is to develop and maintain the organisation’s working ethos and culture.

Our philosophy is simple, we want our clients to enjoy life to the full. We never forget that all our clients are individuals and we want their days with SIPP to be a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. You will play an essential part in enhancing the well-being of each client, both Irish and non Irish. Any similar experience would be ideal, but it isn't essential.