We're recruiting: Brunsmeer Awareness Football Coach
We have an exciting opportunity to join us to deliver the football activity for our men’s football group, Brunsmeer Awareness FC. Brunsmeer Awareness Football Club is one of the community groups supported by Sheffield Flourish. The successful candidate will coach a weekly ‘turn up and play’ session and support players in attending the Flourish League matches, which take place twice a month.
“The football team has helped me build my confidence up as I am able to socialise with other people who are going through similar problems and are able to talk as well as let off some steam through playing sport”
Brunsmeer attendee
About the role
Hours: 6 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £13.60
Responsible to: Volunteer and Community Engagement Coordinator
Brunsmeer Awareness Football Club (BAFC) is a kind, inclusive and a mental health friendly football club. The Brunsmeer Awareness Football Coach will join our small and supportive team to deliver football activity for our men’s football group. The successful candidate will coach a weekly ‘turn up and play’ session and support players to participate and attend twice monthly matches in the Flourish League.
The role involves promotion of BAFC, liaising and encouraging new and regular players to attend, running training sessions in accordance with Flourish values, and supporting players to attend league matches.
Please note that attendees at BAFC have a history of mental ill-health, including severe mental health, and we are therefore looking for candidates with an understanding of mental health barriers and presenting needs.
As an organisation we’re committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunities:
- We recruit for potential, not perfection
- We are a values-based recruiter
- We value lived experience as an element of capability for a role
- We only utilise truly ‘essential’ criteria in recruitment
Please note, as a charity working with vulnerable adults and children, we will request a criminal records check as part of your employment. Disclosure or checks that reveal a conviction or any other information will not, in most cases, result in withdrawing a conditional offer of employment. However, we are unable to employ someone if they are on the DBS Barred List.
To apply, review the job description, ensure you meet the criteria on the person specification and complete the application, to be sent back by Tuesday 4th August 5pm.
We will let all applicants know our decision, although we can’t give individual feedback for applications.
We will invite successful applicants to submit a CV and attend a short, ‘getting to know you’ interview on Monday 10th August. This can be done in-person or virtually. Following this, a smaller number of people may be invited back in to do an activity.
If you need any help with filling out the form please email us on [email protected], or call 0114 273 7009.
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About Sheffield Flourish
Sheffield Flourish supports people living with or affected by mental ill health to use their skills, ideas and talents to build the lives they wish to lead, through creative, mental-health friendly activities, coproduction and digital tools. We run open-access, free community groups offering involvement in writing, horticulture, art, music and football. On the digital side, we run four websites; the Sheffield Flourish hub has over 300 mental health stories, two web directories, the Sheffield Mental Health Guide and Sheffield Suicide Support and Prevention, and the My Toolkit platform, where you can plan activities to support your mental health.
We aim to build confidence, improve wellbeing, increase understanding of mental health issues, challenge stigma and reduce social exclusion and isolation. Our values are very important to us and run through all our activities:
- We stand for hope and meaningful change
- We engage critically and constructively with key issues in mental health
- We are realistic about the barriers and exclusions people living with mental health conditions face
- The diversity of our communities and individuals enrich and guide our work
- We value the knowledge, ideas and skills of people living with mental health conditions
- We are innovative and creative
We are a small, hard-working team, ambitious for change and keen to make a significant positive impact on mental health in Sheffield.
As an organisation we’re committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunities:
- We recruit for potential, not perfection
- We are a values-based recruiter
- We value lived experience as an element of capability for a role
- We only utilise truly ‘essential’ criteria in recruitment
