Sessional Outdoor Play and Learning Youth Worker

4 days ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Concrete Garden Full time

Job Title: Outdoor Play and Learning Youth Worker (sessional pool)

Contract: No fixed hours - ongoing

**Salary**: £12.50/hour

Location: Back Garden, Possilpark, and as required

Responsible to: Outdoor Play and Learning Delivery & Development Managers, Project Manager and Board of Trustees

**ABOUT THE POST**

In 2016, community members and the Concrete Garden team worked together to design and build Possilparks’ first outdoor Natural Playground. The playground has been a huge success with more than 1400 children attending over the last year. This post will form part of a dedicated team of Outdoor Play and Learning Youth Workers who will enrich and expand outdoor child led play and learning in our community. We deliver sessions in our Natural Playground at The Back Garden or through outreach sessions in community green spaces and trips/excursions.

Sessional youth work staff will deliver play alongside our core outdoor play team (term time). Play sessions are after school or over the weekend. With an increase in daytime, evening, and weekend sessions over the school holidays. Shifts vary between 3-7 hours. Our session pool staff are called on to provide cover for core staff, or to support us facilitate additional weekend/school holiday play sessions. There are no fixed hours - sessions will be offered as and when we have work available.

Post holders’ responsibilities will primarily be to co-ordinate and facilitate outdoor play and fun for children aged 0-17 (primarily 7-12). Further to this, at the request of the children who use the play area, post holders will support them to realize their ambition to cook and eat together at each session and design and build new playful structures or bring other new ideas to life. Post holders will also coordinate and facilitate online play and communication at times where individual or group physical play delivery is not possible.

Outdoor Play and Learning is all about playing outdoors, but you will also find yourself involved in supporting children to cook and eat together at sessions, build fires, make dens, climb trees or use the nature around them to create art or design and build new playful structures. All post holders will be expected to respond interchangeably within roles while supporting each other to play to their strengths. Play Youth Workers will hold an overall engagement role and will have an area of interest which they develop in a child-led manner. All post holders will be expected to respond interchangeably within roles while supporting each other to play to their strengths.

**The general areas of interest are**:
Woodwork/ handicrafts: ensuing the children can build things out of wood and as well as creating new and interesting spaces in the play area (like swings and slides). The post holder will feel comfortable working with hammers, nails and saws with all aged children, and able to support the children to put their ideas into creation.

Food/cookery/growing: making sure the children have access to healthy and tasty food during a session. For some sessions this is just a snack, and other sessions this is a hot meal. The post holder will include the children as much as possible in the food choice and preparation and will develop opportunities to grow food where possible.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Duties**:

- Be a trusted, caring, playful and positive adult role model.
- Be part of a team that creates and sustains a nurturing environment where all children can play freely, deeply and without sustained fear for their own safety.
- Be a welcoming, friendly, and reassuring presence for all visitors to site.
- Provide outdoor and/or online/virtual play opportunities all year round (on and off site).
- Facilitate freely chosen and self-directed play opportunities.
- Encourage children to help plan and choose the kinds of activities that they would like to do enabling them to experiment and learn about themselves and the world around them while allowing them to experiment and take risks within the safety of the project.
- Encourage good behaviour and deal with any challenging behaviour in accordance with the projects policies and procedures.
- Encourage participation considering abilities, communication skills, and individual nature of children and young people.
- Always ensure non-discriminatory practices - in line with the Equal Opportunities policy.
- Planning, preparation and clearing up of activities/areas.
- Manage and maintain The Back Garden play area, ensuring health and safety of site and all those who use it.
- To liaise with parents, carers, professionals, and partnership agencies.
- To support the development of youth leadership and volunteering.
- Be able to deliver first aid as and when required, or deal with other exceptional circumstances.
- To keep an on-going oversight for the well-being of all children visiting the site, and online during activities, upholding and reflecting the child protection policies, worki

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