Play Worker

Our settings offer play opportunities which enable children to develop valuable lifelong skills with the support of exciting and engaging resources and a staff team who will offer children an experience they will remember for years to come.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated team players to join our dynamic dedicated professionals who support children to Play, have fun and Enjoy

**Our Core Values**:
**Child centred**:

- We form effective partnerships with parents, schools and the community, maintaining full focus on the best interests of each child.

**Reflection**:

- We are committed to evaluation and development of our service and strive for excellence, to this end we fully support our staff team and listen to all feedback, offering a positive and constructive resolution.

**Environment**:

- We offer children the opportunity to learn through play in a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment.

**Acceptance**:

- Diversity and individuality is welcomed. We understand that all children are unique and have a right to reach their full potential.

**Tolerance**:

- Offering a democratic service and incorporating the British values.

**Inspiring**:

- Our staff team are role models, engaging with families and delivering a personal service. Delivering high quality care and practice which makes a difference.

**Voice**:

- We recognise the value each child brings and welcome their views. The children and parent’s views are incorporated into the delivery and success our service.

**Enjoyment**:

- All children and young people need to play. The impulse to play is innate. Play is a biological, psychological and social necessity, and is fundamental to the healthy development and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

**Role Purpose**
- To provide quality play opportunities for the children in your care.
- To work as part of a team to support the delivery of activity sessions for children.
- Ensuring the safety of participants at all times
- Motivating and encouraging the children to participate and enjoy being physically active.
- To be a positive role mode

**Key Tasks**
- Effective communication
- Day to day set up, providing safe, creative, appropriate play opportunities and preparing activities.
- To demonstrate a good awareness of safeguarding children, health, and safety, and working within statutory guidelines.

**Hours of work**:
Monday to Friday

Breakfast club - 7:30 - 9:00

After School club - 15:00-18:00.

Holiday club - (Optional overtime)

**Experience**:
Essential
- Experience of working within a team environment

Desirable
- Experience of working with children in the Early Years or within a play or sports environment (Training can be provided)
- Experience of supporting individual and groups of children
- Delivery of sport, play and/or physical activity programmes
- Experience working with young people.
- A proven record of delivering activity sessions.

**Skills and qualities**

Essential
- You must be able to drive or travel to the venues for the times of work stated above.
- You will need to be well organised and demonstrate effective communication skills.
- You must be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate with and respond to children positively.
- You will work within a small team where you are expected to be a role model to children and other team members.
- You will need to use good judgement, common sense, prioritise and make competent decisions.
- You will need to demonstrate reliability, good timekeeping and an ability to demonstrate positive interest in health and development
- You must have the ability to follow and participate in activity program and planning.
- You must provide a safe, caring environment

**Safe recruitment**

The safe recruitment of staff in childcare settings is the first step to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in education.

CM Sports is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is recognised that this can only be achieved through sound procedures, good interagency co-operation and the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated employees who are suited to, and fulfilled in the roles they undertake.

CM Sports recognises the value of, and seeks to achieve, a diverse workforce which includes people from different backgrounds, with different skills and abilities.

CM Sports is committed to ensuring that the recruitment and selection of all who work within the company is conducted in a manner that is systematic, efficient, effective and promotes equality of opportunity.

We will uphold obligations under law and national collective agreements to not discriminate against applicants for employment on the grounds of:

- Age
- Being or becoming a transsexual person
- Being married or in a civil partnership
- Being pregnant or having a child
- Disability
- Race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national ori