Primary Schools Play Advisor Part-time

5 months ago

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom OPAL North East Limited Full time

**OPAL Mentor**

**Schools Play Advisor (Redcar, Cleveland, Middlesbrough region)**

**Hours**:16 hours per week (flexible over 3 days), term time plus INSET days

**Location**: Home Based. Monthly meeting at NE office. Working in schools across Redcar, Cleveland, Middlesbrough region plus surrounding areas

**Employment type**:To be discussed **(**employed or freelance trainer)

**Responsible to**:OPAL Northeast Director

**Salary**: Starting from £22 p/h Dependent on experience and employment type. F/T £38k per annum (average working 41 weeks per year)

**Holiday Entitlement**:If employed 22 days plus 8 bank holidays (pro rota)

**Pension**:Yes

**Interview Date**:Wed 16th August

**Full training provided. **Access and use of car essential

**About OPAL**

Come and join a dynamic national team of professionals dedicated to putting play on the educational radar and enhancing children's playtimes at school.

OPAL - Outdoor Play and Learning - CIC is the UK's leading, award-winning organisation providing school improvement through play.
Play is the universal language of childhood. It is through play that children learn, make friends and make sense of the world around them. Play helps to develop their brain, stimulates creativity and problem-solving, promotes resilience and social skills and maintains physical, mental and emotional health.
Children spend 1.4 years of their primary school attendance in play, and yet many schools have no strategic approach to play to meet the needs of children across all ages. The OPAL
Programme is a mentor supported primary school-improvement programme, addressing all areas that schools must plan for to improve the quality of their play opportunities.
OPAL has helped hundreds of schools to improve play in the UK, Canada, Australia, France,
New Zealand, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Poland and Hungary.
As a rapidly growing organisation, we are looking to expand our UK team to reach even more schools.

**About the role**
Being an OPAL Mentor is multi-faceted and highly rewarding role, which will see you affecting change and transformation at organisational level to improve children's lives ultimately.

OPAL Mentors deliver the OPAL Primary Programme to schools across the country. This role is regional based and may involve travel to schools within a 100-mile radius.

As an OPAL Mentor, you will be working independently with primary school staff, guiding them through the 18-24-month strategic OPAL programme. The main goal of the programme is to support the creation of a sustainable school play culture at the same time as enabling fantastic playtime provision for children.

You will be working across your local region, facilitating eight compulsory and two optional half-day meetings per school, throughout every school's OPAL journey. Outside of the meetings, you will be available for online and telephone support, as per schools' individual needs. You will also be proactively contacting and seeking to meet prospective schools in your region. Therefore, a full valid driver's license and access to a car, as well as a regular internet connection and mobile phone are essential. Laptop will be provided.
- Have knowledge of play and playwork theory and previous experience of quality playwork-based practice, as this will inform the delivery of the OPAL programme and will be applied in each individual school context.
- Hold a relevant qualification (degree level and above) in play, advice and guidance, education, early years.
- Have knowledge of how schools operate in the UK.
- Be able to communicate effectively with people from all walks of life, of different ages, abilities and backgrounds, at various hierarchical levels within a school.
- Be comfortable presenting to and training both small and large groups of people.
- Be highly organised.
- Take initiative in reaching out to prospective schools and be interested in developing your marketing and advertising skills.
- Have excellent spoken and written English.

This role does not involve working directly with children.

All OPAL Mentors benefit from tailored on-going support, regular meetings sharing best practice and access to the latest research, guidance and resources that underpin and continuously develop the quality of our work.

Training will take place on mutually agreed dates following appointment.
- OPAL_ _is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all those affiliated with the organisation to share this commitment._

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 15 per week

**Salary**: Up to £37,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Middlesbrough: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience and a degree level qualification in play and/or education?
- Do you have substantial experience of delivering training, p

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