Children's Play Worker

3 weeks ago

East Renfrewshire, United Kingdom Include Me 2 Club Full time

**Why work at Include Me 2 Club?**

Include Me 2 Club is a fast-paced, growing charity that exists to ensure all children, young people and adults with an additional support need, disability or mental health condition are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with a range of projects, partners and funders to ensure that our specialist services within the sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is member-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes. We are looking for creative and energetic people to join our small, enthusiastic team who are at the forefront of actively promoting equality of opportunity for members.

**General principles for all Include Me 2 Club staff**

All Include Me 2 Club staff, volunteers and trainees are expected to work in line with our culture, brand, ethos, values and management principles, in particular by:

- Building and maintaining meaningful, supportive, mutually empowering relationships with and between colleagues, partners, members who are adults, young people and children.
- Creating and supporting a friendly and trusting working environment, working flexibly and supporting each other in times of high workload or when life gets difficult.
- Accepting personal responsibility for our work and being accountable for delivering results against those responsibilities.
- Recognising that we all have a role to play in all aspects of Include Me 2 Clubs success, in particular in supporting fundraising, storytelling, and involving adults, young people and children in shaping the future of Include Me 2 Club.

**Main Function**:
To engage, inspire, empower and connect children, young people, adults and families with additional support needs and disabilities including physical, learning and mental health conditions, suffering from isolation and/or lonliness from birth or acquired throughout their lives.

We believe passionately about inclusion, in everyday opportunities and activities that bring our members into their communities and their communities where they live into their lives. We do this by being member-led, person-centred, outcome-focused, asset-based and community-based.

**Roles**:
**Sessional Children’s ServicesWorkers**

Will bring play to the heart of the community; encouraging, supporting and motivating children with additional support needs and disabilities to participate in social and play activities both indoors and outdoors. Our sessional workers provide an inclusive service so that children will have fun, stay safe, be inspired, make friends, learn and contribute while providing them with life and social skills. They also assist the volunteer team to organise, deliver and facilitate stimulating and innovative free play.

We currently have vacancies to support our sessions in Cardonald and Haghill however extra shifts will be available in other locations to support with our holiday programmes over Easter and Summer.

**Duties**:

- Plan and deliver activities, programmes and service opportunities all year round (on and off-site)
- Facilitate freely chosen and self-directed activities and opportunities
- Encourage participants 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
- Supervise participants at all times making sure that safety procedures are followed conforming to the project’s Child Protection and Health & Safety policies and other relevant policies, completing any appropriate reports e.g. accident/incident forms
- Encourage positive behaviours and deal with any challenging behaviour in accordance with the projects’ policies and procedures.
- Ensure non-discriminatory practices at all times - in line with the Equal Opportunities policy
- Preparation and clearing up of activities/areas
- Contribute to joint working and partnership working ensuring positive relationships with all concerned.
- Liaise with parents, carers, professionals and partnership agencies

**Health & Safety**:

- Ensure that all areas/equipment used are free from hazard/danger
- Report/remove any items considered dangerous
- Ensure all reasonable precautions are taken with regard to the children's and your own Health and Safety, on indoor/outdoor activities and games.
- Understand and implement Dynamic Risk Benefit assessments

**Administration/Procedures**:

- Ensure familiarity and adherence to organisations’ policies & procedures
- Support evaluation of the service by maintaining register of attendance, consent and evaluation records (observations, images, questionnaires, videos as appropriate)
- Noting and acting with regard to special health or dietary needs of children, young people or adults on register
- Attendance at staff meetings and training sessions as required
- Keeping a log of, and reporting any issues on se

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