NCS Facilitator

Entrust has a range of NCS Facilitator roles (previously known as NCS Team Leaders) working on the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme with young people ages 16/17 years. Entrust Outdoors is an exciting business with a great pedigree, we have several sites, both hardtop and tented camps in Staffordshire, Peak District, Cumbria, and County Durham, all offering unique characteristics with exciting and innovative programmes. 

 

NCS Facilitator, post holders will be expected to:   

• Ensure young people are engaging in activities, the residential experience and manage behaviour issues, also the role includes welfare and wellbeing responsibilities for the young people attending NCS. 
• Responsibility for the health, safety, and wellbeing of young people (Pastoral care).  
• Lead guided reflection sessions and ensure that young people are aware of the NCS Ethos and outcomes.  
• Lead and support with NCS sessions including and not limited to icebreakers, team building sessions, themed sessions.  
• Complete administration tasks including daily registers, incident/accident forms, medical forms, session reviews, timesheets.   
• Follow and comply with policies and procedures around Safeguarding, incident management and recording, information security governance, health and safety and risk assessment protocols. 
• Responsible for regularly accessing/ reading/ acknowledging due diligence documents such as session plans, risk assessments and young people care plans.  
• Ensure activities are inclusive. 
• Positively engage and support community partners, 3rd party suppliers, workshop providers who are onsite to support the timetable of activities. 
• Communicating with the young people during activities, free time. Ensuring the young people are aware of their timetables, expectations whilst on residential, ensuring to carry out wellbeing checks on young people allocated to your team. 
• Work as a team of NCS facilitators, attending daily briefings, addressing any site issues. This is a residential experience for young people, at times incidents and conditions at the sites mean that plans, activities, and the timetable will need to change to response to this need. Therefore, the NCS facilitators need to be flexible and willing to support young people throughout the experience.  
• NOTE: 5 residential experience sites are camp sites and therefore you will be expected to camp during your evening duty cover.  

Post holders will ideally have the following experience/skills:  

• Experience of working with young people.  
• Previous NCS experience (desirable).  
• Passionate about engaging in a range of outdoor activities and workshops based around mental health, first aid, money and many more.  
• Passionate about engaging young people to develop life skills.  
• High personal standards in presentation, communication and delivering customer service.   
• Relevant experience working in a residential education setting and delivering outdoor education programmes (desirable).  

About Entrust Education

Main business: : Public service, charity and social work

Entrust has a range of Team Leader role opportunities working on the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme, based out of Barnswood Scout Camp. Entrust Outdoors is an exciting business with a great pedigree, we have several sites hardtop and tented camps in Staffordshire, Lake District, Peak District and County Durham, all offering unique characteristics with exciting and innovative products being offered to a rapidly expanding customer base from schools to youth groups, major charities, MOD and NCS.  We are a highly motivated company with a well-qualified and experienced staff team that shares a clear view going forward of growth and diversification, delivering the highest quality outdoor education in a sustainable and commercial way. 

Entrust has worked with NCS since 2010, providing a variety of outdoor activities at our centres and pop-up sites across England and Wales during the Be Epic phase of NCS. In 2019, we began directly delivering NCS across Staffordshire and parts of Shropshire and have supported hundreds of young people through our programmes. 

From 2023, Entrust will offer a new NCS residential experience which will consist of a five day stay away from home where young people will take part in activities that centre around independent living. With a mix of fun, adventurous activities and skills for life, young people will have the opportunity to make new friends from many different locations and backgrounds.  

NCS provides the buzz of being an adult without the responsibility of being an adult. Entrust will be delivering the ‘Life skills’ theme as part of one of the three themes delivered across the nation.  

Over the duration of the programme teenagers are given a crash course in life skills that inspire them to feel independent. They’ll meet new people, stay away from home, take on adventures and challenges. Activities can include rock climbing, weaselling, water sports, day expeditions and bushcraft.