Youth & Play Worker
SALARY: Zero Hours
CONTRACT TYPE: Zero Hours, available play shifts are: Tuesdays & Thursdays 3pm – 6:30pm (term-time) and all day in school holidays. Available youth shifts are Tuesdays 6-8:30pm and evenings in the holidays.
OPERATIONAL AREA: West of England
LOCATION: The Vench, Lockleaze Youth & Play Space, Romney Avenue, Bristol, BS5 9AN
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
Groundwork South is committed to transforming people’s lives and places through social, economic and environmental action. In terms of development and delivery of these projects we work across three business themes, Parks & Open Spaces, Youth & Employment and Greener Living & Working.
Join The Vench Play Team!
At The Vench, we are on a mission to ensure all children and young people in Lockleaze live happy and healthy lives by providing a safe and vibrant space to play, learn and grow. We are looking for passionate and professional Youth & Play Workers to deliver inclusive, safe, free and exciting play and activities for children, young people and families.
The Vench is a much-loved adventure playground and community centre in the heart of Lockleaze. For over 45 years we’ve been inspiring imaginative play in a safe, supportive and fun environment to help children and young people learn and grow.
Main Duties
- To facilitate and support young people’s self-directed play.
- To introduce ideas and activities and support young people’s initiatives that help to create a challenging, stimulating and rich play environment.
- To be responsive to a range of play types, behaviours and experiences and allow children control and autonomy over the content and intent of their play; whilst facilitating positive behaviour.
- To collaborate with other staff in the planning and running of sessions so that the playground offers a broad range of play and activities, considering the needs and wishes of young people, families and the wider community.
- To apply anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practices at all times and to work in line with Groundwork’s equalities policy.
- To provide a warm, welcoming and inclusive play environment where individuals are valued, and appropriate adaptations are made to maximise all young people’s engagement.
- To work professionally as part of a team, participating in individual and team reflective play work practice; supervision; appraisal; professional development; recording; reporting; and contributing to quality improvements as required.
- To contribute to the collection of data, recording information and maintaining records, as needed. For example, daily registers, accident and incident forms etc.
- To actively engage in consultation with young people and encourage participation in and ownership of The Vench.
- To oversee and support the preparation and serving of food.
- To provide information about personal availability for work, skills, training needs and potential conflict of interests or commitments in advance in order to support effective forward planning, reliable staffing rotas and assist with service management requirements.
This post will be subject to an Enhanced Check with Lists from the Disclosure and Barring Service. Groundwork South’s Working with Children & Vulnerable Adults Policy supports staff in putting into practice our commitment to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18.
Closing Date: 4th July 2021
Interview Date: TBC
Start Date: ASAP
For more information regarding this role please call Amy Walsh on 07710392078. Please send your application form to Laura Dyke on laura.dyke@groundwork.org.uk
Application Pack
CVs will not be accepted. No agencies please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that we reserve the right to close applications early in the event of a large response.
We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. To demonstrate our commitment we have been awarded the Disability Confident Scheme Symbol, which is awarded by the Employment Service. We guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the post. If you consider yourself to have a disability and would like to apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the Guaranteed Interview Scheme form (at the top of our current vacancies page) and submit this with your application. We shall ensure fairness and equal opportunities throughout our workforce and in service delivery.
Groundwork South is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or age. A copy of our Equality and Diversity policy may also be made available to candidates on request.