Lead Playworker

Job Purpose:

To co-ordinate a team to provide a caring and secure environment. To organise an appropriate range of activities for families and children within the Connect4Summer Project.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Activity Planning:

To Co-ordinate a team to provide safe, creative and appropriate play opportunities for children and families including: preparing activities, organisation of the programme, arranging equipment, cleaning and preparing the venue for the following day

To ensure that a wide range of activities are offered

Ensure that play meets the full range of children’s individual and group needs

Liaison:

To develop and maintain good relationships

To conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times
To encourage parental involvement and support through the development of effective working relationships
To consult with the children, involving them in the planning of activities

Supervision and care of children:

To ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner in accordance with statutory responsibilities
To adhere to Connect4Summer policy and procedure
To ensure food provision is carried out within the guidelines of the food safety act 1990, and is balanced and healthy in accordance with dietary need

Miscellaneous:

To ensure provision of good standards of physical and emotional care
Ensure good standards of hygiene and cleanliness, maintained at all times
To be responsible for the Health and Safety standards appropriate for the needs of the children
To assist with the preparation and maintenance of materials and equipment

To record any accident or incident on an accident/incident form, informing

Senior Managers as appropriate

To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds, and stages of development
To ensure confidentially of any information received and be aware of safeguarding at all times
To undertake any other task within the role as deemed appropriate

Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills(This will be provided if required):

Food safety

First Aid

Health and Safety awareness

Safeguarding awareness

NB: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants must be prepared to disclose any convictions they may have and any orders which have been made against them.

Please complete the application form and attach a CV or Covering-letter (Word.doc, PDF, or RTF/TXT files please)

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If you have had a break from paid work it is important to include details of any voluntary work or unpaid duties you have performed, particularly any positions of responsibility held, e.g. parent governor, playschool assistant, committee member, VSO, treasurer of a club, CAB volunteer etc. Attach a continuation sheet if necessary.
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Please give details below of two people who can provide information that will confirm your suitability for this post. Where appropriate one person should be your current or most recent employer; the other should be someone who has known you in a professional capacity. References will be sought on short listed candidates and previous employers may be contacted to verify particular experience or qualifications before interview. Current or previous employers will be asked about disciplinary offences relating to children including penalties that are 'time expired' and any child protection concerns.

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Rehabilitation / Offences disclosure
REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1974 (EXEMPTIONS) ORDER 1975
This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions) Order 1975 because it is a post which involves working directly with children or young people. You are therefore required to declare whether you have any criminal convictions (or cautions or bind-overs) including those which are 'spent'. Please tick as appropriate.
Have you ever been convicted of any criminal offences warned or reprimanded in or been officially cautioned in relation to any such offence?
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Are you included in any list of people barred from working with children by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) or the General Teaching Council?
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If Yes, please contact J. Lefley on 01794 522106 to discuss.
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Confirmation and Equality information
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I understand that if I am appointed, personal information about me will be computerised for personnel/employee administrative purposes including analysis for management purposes and statutory returns.

In signing this form I give my authority for use of my personal data for these purposes.

I hereby confirm that the information I have given above is true.

I understand that, should any of the particulars I provide in this application be found to be false within my knowledge, or should there be any wilful omission of material fact, this may be reported to the Police as well as leading to my application being rejected or the contract being null and void if I have already been appointed.
- If your application is successful, prior to taking up this post, you will be required to undergo a Formal Disclosure process through the Disclosure & Barring Service. This will require you to complete a separate DBS application form and to provide a range of documentary evidence of your identity.
- Although a criminal record involving offences against children is likely to debar you from appointment of this type of post, the existence of other criminal convictions will not necessarily be a bar to employment.
- Any criminal record information arising out of the disclosure process will be discussed with you before any final decision is made about your employment.
- It is a criminal offence to apply for or accept a position (paid or unpaid) working with children if you are excluded from such work by virtue of a court order or exclusion by the ISA.
- Copies of Romsey Community School’s policy on the employment of ex-offenders and the DBS Code of Practice are available on request.
- Copies of disclosure certificates are retained by Romsey Community School until after the commencement of employment. The fact that a disclosure has been processed, with dates, is then recorded on our computerised personnel record system and the disclosure certificate itself is destroyed, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Lead Playworker

Education

Employment History

References

Rehabilitation / Offences disclosure

Confirmation and Equality information