Chaplaincy Volunteer(School’s Work)

Role Description

YMCA BOURNEMOUTH

56 Westover Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 2BS

Role Title:Chaplaincy Volunteer (School’s Work)

Responsible To:YMCA Bournemouth Chaplain

Hours:To Be Agreed

Role Purpose:To support the YMCA Bournemouth Chaplain in working in partnership with local schools specifically supporting the delivery of assemblies, group and individual mentoring sessions and afterschool clubs. To help run and develop missional opportunities that connect with pupils at schools in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.

Main Responsibilities

  • To deliver one-to-onementoring sessions with school pupils 10-18.
  • To support the YMCA Bournemouth Chaplain in delivering assemblies about the Christian faith in local schools.
  • To support the YMCA Bournemouth Chaplain in delivering group sessions and after schools club in local schools.
  • To support the YMCA Bournemouth Chaplain in developing relationships with local schools in the area.

Support System / Benefits

  • Regular supervision sessions with YMCA Chaplainwho will support you in developing your skills and helping you move forward in your walk with Jesus.
  • Professional Boundaries Training
  • Safeguarding Training
  • Free gym membership at The Junction Leisure Centre and Lifewise Gym.

Environment

YMCA Bournemouth is a supported needs’ Housing Association with the majority of residents needing intensive housing management support and occupying 63 hostel rooms and 22 self-contained flats at its Westover Road site and 6 units (12 residents) at its Trafford House move-on accommodation. Further to this the association has a town centre youth drop-in centre, Fusion, and manages another youth centre in Townsend. YMCA Bournemouth is sole trustee of Pokedown Community Youth Club and Winton YMCA, it also runs both Southbourne and Pokesdown Children’s Centres. The association manages a large leisure complex at Broadstone, The Junction as well as a Christian retreat centre, Sandyholme, in Studland. The association serves over 3500 in the community and has a small sports complex including high-tech fitness facility and sports hall and day care nursery within it Westover Road complex.

Chaplaincy Volunteer (School’s Work)

Person Specification

YMCA BOURNEMOUTH

56 Westover Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 2BS

**Please note there is a genuine occupational requirement (GOR) that the post holder is a committed Christian and enhanced DBS checks will be required, in accordance with Equality Act 2010, Part 1, Schedule 9.

Knowledge and Qualifications
Knowledge of the issues faced by young people today / Essential
An understanding of Equality and Diversity Issues / Essential
An understanding of the truth of Scripture and how to apply it to everyday life / Essential
An understand of the importance of safeguarding / Essential
Experience
Experience of leading and facilitating discussion groups with young people / Desirable
Experience of working with young people / Essential
Experience of managing boundaries in a complex situation / Desirable
Experience of pastoral care / mentoring young people / Desirable
Experience delivering assemblies in schools / Desirable
Skills and Abilities
Ability to share and commend the Christian faith with confidence / Essential
Ability tocommunicate effectively with young people aged 10-18 / Essential
Excellent listening skills / Essential
Ability to initiate engagement with young people aged 10-18 / Essential
Ability to work well as part of a team / Essential
Ability to be welcoming and build positive relationships with young people from many different ethnic minority groups and different cultural and faith groups / Essential
Ability to show tolerance and be appreciative of differing views and other faiths / Essential
Personal
Committed to Bournemouth YMCA’s aims and purposes / Essential
Committed to being part of a local church / Essential
Able to identify with and adhere to the Basis of Faith as set out by the Evangelical Alliance (please see below). / Essential

Evangelical Alliance Basis of faith

WE BELIEVE IN...

  1. The one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
  2. The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
  3. The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God—fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
  4. The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
  5. The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ—born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
  6. The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
  7. The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
  8. The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
  9. The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
  10. The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers—given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
  11. The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.