Club Leader

About the role
Are you looking to further develop your **leadership** skills in a role where your **creative skills** can flourish?

Perhaps you are **seeking a new challenge** working with **children and young people**?

A next step, full of **opportunities to develop** and **support others** to thrive?

**Then we hope this new and exciting Club Leader role is for you**

**_About CamPlay _**

CamPlay is part of the Community Support Service, running clubs for Children and Young People aged 6-19 years across the county of Cambridgeshire.

We have Saturday clubs and youth clubs running at weekends and holiday clubs running during the summer, Easter and Christmas school holidays, supporting a wide range of children and young people with a learning and or physical disability. We provide a safe, fun and engaging place where children and young people can play, make friends, get out into their local community and develop lifelong skills in preparation for adulthood.

CamPlay clubs run in Chatteris, Ely, March, Whittlesey, Wisbech, Huntingdon, St Neots, Cambridge and Grafham Water.

**_What our families say about CamPlay..._**
- “I enjoy going to CamPlay in the Holidays. I enjoy the activities and the trips and I like to see the staff as they are all really friendly" _**_- _**_young person aged 11_**.
- "S absolutely LOVES going to_ _club. Every session he comes out and says it was the best one yet and is already looking forward to the next one. He talks about his friends from club all the time at home and feels really safe enough to challenge himself and do things he wouldn't do at home." _**_-_**_ Parent_**_._**
- “She has developed a lot of confidence, her speech has improved significantly. She enjoys both the holiday club and Saturday club, has developed friendships, created a positive routine for herself during the weekends and has something to look forward to in the holidays”. _**_-_** **_P_**_ar_**_ent. _**

**_About the role _**

Contracted Club Leaders will have an annualised contract and work 1176 hours over the year.

20 hours Term Time = 44 weeks a year, 880 hours

37 hours a week for 2 weeks at Easter, 5 weeks at Summer and 1 week pre Christmas Holidays, 8 weeks a year, 296 hours

**We can also offer this role as a full time 37 hour per week post**

You’ll be motivating, leading and supervising a team of Play Workers and Play Leaders. You’ll be involved in the planning, preparation and delivering of Clubs including rotas of clubs, activities, events, equipment and resources. You’ll be leading and developing clubs, giving children and young people the best experiences at CamPlay. You’ll create a space where independence, communication, choice and decision making is at the forefront of everything we offer.

CamPlay is a dynamic and fast paced service, but it’s a very friendly and supportive team.
- “_Watching _the _M_anagement_ _Team_ work over the summer hon_estly made me realise what a dedicated _team I work for which is brillian_t and very inspiring _S_eeing _my ma_nager_s _get stuck in and _work withi_n a variety of situations does bring home what a great service we are and I am proud to work for you all”. - _**_Club Leader_**

The role is 20 hours per week term time and will include weekend working but this will be on a rotational basis - so not every weekend. When our Holiday Clubs are running you’ll be leading these clubs 37 hours per week. You can chose to work additional weekends on a relief contract.

**_About you.._**
- Creative, fun and full of enthusiasm
- Experience of supporting children or young people with a disability
- Strong mentoring and leadership skills
- Reliable, motivated and able lead a diverse team
- Dedicated to delivering inclusive services to children and young people with additional needs
- Enjoys challenges and problem solving
- Able to travel freely around the county
- Flexibility to work weekends and during summer, Easter and Christmas holidays
- Passion for leading teams and groups of people
- Understanding of play work principles
- Understanding of the significance of safeguarding and procedures

**_What we can offer you.. _**
- 20 hours per week of flexible working around your schedule and our service requirements
- Additional Club Leading £12.70 p/h or Play Working £11.18 p/h work during weekends and school holidays
- Bespoke induction and mentoring program
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Monthly supervision, support and regular team meetings
- A creative, dynamic and supportive team to work within
- Opportunities to shape and develop our services
- "CamPlay is a really nice environment to work_ in. The Managers and Club Leaders not only give pra_ise to the gro_up but will always take time to highlight good practice and successes for i_ndividual staff members"_ _-_ **_Play Worker_**

We’d love you to give us a call and have a chat about the Club Leader role and our service. We can tell you much more about how wonderfu