Activity Leader

3 weeks ago


Folkestone, United Kingdom Summer Boarding Courses Full time

**About The Role**:
**Contract Dates - 22/06/2023 - 12/08/2023**
- _Shorter Contracts Available_

Activity Leaders take a key role in the pastoral care and supervision of students alongside the planning and delivery of wellbeing activities and evening events. Activity Leaders need to be highly attentive and well organised in their approach to supervision of students and managing welfare issues. With students from a diverse range of countries and cultures, it is important that Activity Leaders have sufficient presence to bring everyone together and create a fun, welcoming and vibrant atmosphere in the College.
- Earlscliffe and SBC International are both part of the Dukes Education family of schools. Earlscliffe Summer School is delivered by Earlscliffe in collaboration with SBC International. Shortlisted applicants will have interviews conducted by Earlscliffe staff._

**Main Duties**
- Assume responsibility for the welfare of all students
- Engage with students in a friendly but professional manner
- Supervise students in the boarding houses and other college areas, ensuring appropriate standards of student behaviour and monitoring student welfare
- Oversee students moving throughout their day including key times at meals, wake-up / lights out, and break times
- Attend daily Activity Leader meetings regarding pastoral issues, planning activities and excursion briefs
- Be on duty during all designated meal and break times ensuring appropriate standards of student behaviour and supervising student welfare at all times
- Engage with the students in a friendly but professional manner at all times
- Be responsible for attending to unwell students and make arrangements with doctors when directed by the Centre Manager
- Keep records of incidents, sickness and medical issues and inform the centre manager
- Oversee general room tidiness and report any maintenance issues to the Centre Manager
- Pro-actively address student behavioural issues remaining professional and empathic while dealing with discipline and behaviour management in a positive and constructive manner
- Help ensure that the students do not breach the rules of the school
- Assist at any time, whether on duty or not, with an emergency situation, or where a student is ill or injured
- Adhere to all Health and Safety measures (including COVID safety measures, risk assessments and other policies and procedures, as required at the time of operation)

**Social & Wellbeing Programme Duties**
- Together with the Centre Manager, take responsibility for the execution of the weekly Social Programme, ensuring a varied and engaging programme activities, events and excursions
- Design, plan and deliver activities to groups of students within the programme
- Work alongside fellow Activity Leaders to plan and deliver structured and engaging whole college events.
- Lead students in the daily Programme sessions and on excursions, following pre-planned itineraries

**_Remuneration_**: Paid weekly, one week in arrears. The rate for Activity Leader is £517.53 (plus holiday pay £62.47)
- ** **Food and accommodation (worth £60.90 per week) are included for all residential SBC staff. This results in a weekly total of £580.

**About You**:
All members of staff employed by Earlscliffe will be expected to bring certain key qualities to the operation. There must be a professional interest in working with young people and particularly international children. Safety and welfare of the students is of paramount importance at Earlscliffe and a practical enforcing of this belief should be a quality exhibited by all staff.

We look for staff who are:

- Approachable
- Empathic to the needs of students
- Enthusiastic
- Engaging
- Diplomatic
- Responsible
- Motivated
- Flexible within the summer school environment
- Although Activity Leaders are not required to teach the English language lessons, we do expect them to be able to communicate effectively with our students, using an appropriate level of language to suit the group. Activity Leaders must demonstrate patience, empathy and an emotional awareness towards students both individually and in within a group setting. We expect Activity Leaders to take control of students and to manage discipline and behavioural issues in a firm, positive and constructive manner._

**Experience Required**

Essential
- Experience working with children in a professional capacity
- Experience of, and genuine enjoyment of working with children
- Strong communication skills, ability to work under pressure, flexibility
- Ability to take control of and lead a group of children on activities and during excursions
- Strong organisational skills

Desirable
- Desirable
- Experience of residential international summer schools
- Experience of working within the education sector
- Qualifications and experience in leading young people in either tennis, dance, performing arts, music or arts and crafts
- Experience and qualifications in coaching other sport
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