Senior Disability Play/Youth Worker

Job Title: Senior Disability Play/Youth Worker

Salary: £12.70 per hour

Benefits Five weeks Annual Leave plus bank holidays. Holidays increase after two years’ service to a maximum of six weeks after six years’ service. The holiday year runs from 1st April to 31st March each year. (Pro-Rata depending on hours and for sessional staff percentage added to pay).

Excellent in house annual training programme.

Free parking available at all our sites.

Hours and Location of work offer flexible hours or if you are interested in having set contracted hours each week this is something that can be discussed at interview. Applicants can apply to work across different areas of work, please make areas of interest clear in your application.

Area of work Locations Available hours

Disability • Reigate (YMCA Sovereign Centre) Term Time: Short • Epsom (Linden Bridge School, and Saturdays/Sundays YMCA Phoenix Youth Centre) • Leatherhead (Fox Grove School Holidays: School/College) Monday – Friday • Crawley (Manor Green School) • Horsham (Queen Elizabeth II School) 09:30/10:00 • Mid Sussex (Chailey Heritage School) 16:30/17:00

Responsible to: CYP Coordinators, Senior Coordinators and Managers

Responsible for: N/A

Job Purpose: To support with overseeing and delivering a program of activities to meet the needs of the children and young people who have a disability or additional needs. Also supporting with ensuring safeguarding and regulatory requirements are being met.

Background to We have numerous opportunities to work with a long-standing and well-respected role charity within the local community. If you have experience of working with children and young people and you want to make a meaningful difference to their lives while learning new skills yourself, we would love to hear from you.

Being a senior play / youth worker is an excellent way to further your experience working with play and youth while working around studies or other commitments as well as providing an opportunity to gain valuable experience to help with future carers.

More information about our services can be found on our website https://www.ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk/children/

Main  To support with the running of our Short Break Clubs ensuring that the service Responsibilities: provided is safe, high quality and appropriate for the children and young people who attend.

 To build trusting relationships with children and young people that enable them to benefit from the services provided.

 To support play/youth workers and volunteers with their roles and knowing when to get further support from more senior team members.

 To ensure that all children and young people upon their arrival are welcomed and feel comfortable and valued enabling the development and improvement of self-esteem, self-confidence and positive experiences

 Where appropriate to work with parents and families, checking that we have the correct information about the children and young people that attend. To ensure that parents and carers are kept informed of incidents/ accidents or other issues relating to their children.

 To contribute to the planning, organisation and delivery of activities, ensuring they are adapted where appropriate to be accessible to all children and young people to the best of their ability.

 To supervise the activity environment to ensure physical and emotional/personal safety for all children and young people attending. This includes completing appropriate records of any accidents, injuries or incidents that may occur and any medication administered

 To provide and supervise the hygienic provision of refreshments for the children/young people, recognising the principles of a balanced diet and the requirements of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds and allergies

 To ensure that resources are set up and packed up while being kept neat and tidy as well as to inform the coordinator/manager if extra resources are required.

 To ensure that all children and young people are made to feel valued and enabled to develop and improve self-esteem, self-confidence and positive experiences

 To at times be responsible for a team of play workers and volunteers, and to ensure that the service provided is of high quality and appropriate for the varying children who attend including leading a daily debrief and feeding back any information to the coordinator.

 Where necessary to administer first aid for children who have had an accident as well as medication for children with health issues ensuring that have attended necessary training with regards to this.

 Participate and support the safe delivery of the Short Break weekend club.

 Assist with greeting parents/carers at arrival and departure times; providing feedback about the child’s day and gaining the service users’ feedback on the quality of service and areas of improvement.

 Administer, where necessary, medication for children with health issues and keep accurate and up to date records of administering medication

 Provide and supervise the hygienic provision for personal care, ensuring privacy and dignity at all times.

 To provide cover for the Play Leader

 To receive medication from Parents/Carers, check, record and store safely following procedures and Administer, where necessary, after appropriate training, medication for children keeping accurate and up to date records.

 Assist with moving and handling of children/adults with restricted mobility, after appropriate training, including hoisting and use of mobility equipment.

 Provide high level of support for children/adults with complex needs, ensuring care plans and behaviour plans are understood and followed to meet individual needs.

 Regular use if aids to support communication and sensory impairment needs.

 Provide high level of diligence and surveillance for the child you are supporting, including personal hygiene, behaviour, nutrition, sensory and play needs, feeding back any new observations to the Leader.

 Accompany children/adults on trips, following procedures and policies, risk assessment and keeping them safe whilst providing high level of support.

 Supporting children/adults with eating and drinking as specified within their care plan and guidelines.

 Attend [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] staff meetings, training and staff development events, as appropriate, to ensure continuous professional competence and development

 Undertake any other duties and responsibilities reasonably requested by the Coordinator / Manager. .