The role
The Youth & Play Service are responsible for providing positive activities borough wide for young people aged 11 to 19 years (25 years with SEN) as well as delivery of Adventure Playgrounds for children aged 8 to 15 years. These services are provided in a variety of building based youth centres and adventure playgrounds across the borough.
The post holder will support the management of the day-to-day operation of an open access play facility, delivering play opportunities, across all Play Types to children and young people.
The post holder will carryout the following duties (but not limited to) -
- To work directly with children and young people to support their personal development by providing appropriate programmes of activities, services and facilities
- To support events, activities and supervise children and young people using play facilities ensuring that said facilities operate effectively so that the provision contributes to the service and departmental objectives
- To support the development and delivery of a programme of positive activities, enjoyable and interesting to the children and young people taking part in them
- To take part in consultations with children and young people to ensure their voices are included in programmes and service activity
- To ensure the maintenance of agreed records including user registers, contacts, doctors, accident books, financial transactions, risk assessments, output data and basic reports
- The Play Offer is delivered Tuesdays to Saturdays. We will require post holders to work on Fridays and Saturdays across all these vacancies
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional details
About You:
- Work as part of a team, sharing knowledge and skills and demonstrates a willingness to learn
- Work flexibly, able to adapt work to respond to the changing needs of the service
- Able to assimilate new procedures and working methods
- Good interpersonal and networking skills, able to identify, establish and maintain appropriate liaison and contacts with other agencies and communities in order to promote the service objectives
- Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, particularly in relation to programme planning and report writing
We are currently recruiting for X3 part time play workers with the following hours below;
1 Post - 10 Hours
2 Post - 12 Hours
Play Workers are required to work after school and at weekends.
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service DBS check at Enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on 16th September 2024
Interview and Assessment: TBC
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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