Activity and Welfare Leader

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**What's on Offer**:
**Location**: Manchester

**Salary**: Between £505-£525 per week (Commensurate with experience)
**Contract Type**: Fixed Term Summer Contract (Available During June 2025 - August 2025)
**Hours**: 42 hours per week

**Team Member Benefits**:
**Meals**: 3 meals per day, catering to dietary and religious requirements
**Career Development**: Comprehensive paid training & career development
**Culture**: Friendly & supportive multicultural working environment
**Wellbeing**: Dedicated Mental Health Champions
**Rewards**: Team Members Recognition Awards

**Annual Leave**:Annual leave accrual 12.07% to be paid at end of fixed term contract

**Bonus for Eligible Returners**: £20 per week

**Overview**:
The Activity Welfare Leader (AWL) is responsible for planning, implementing and delivering a high-quality social programme of activities and excursions to Young Learner students studying with BSC Young Learners (BSC YL). AWL’s are required to motivate and encourage students to fully participate in the programme and to ensure the safety of students remains paramount at all times. They are required to adhere to BSC Rules and follow all BSC safeguarding policies. AWL’s are also required to adopt welfare duties, which means they need to provide support, guidance and assistance to students, coordinating welfare-related activities and working closely with other team members to create a positive and nurturing environment. AWL’s will also attend to pastoral duties.

The main duties and responsibilities are listed below:
**Duties**:
**House duties & Pastoral Care**
- House Duties & Pastoral Care
- Be responsible for student welfare.
- Ensure high standards of student behavior.
- Ensure each student’s dietary/religious needs are met.
- Perform all residential duties in a professional manner.
- Monitor students’ regular medication requirements.
- Attend the hospital or Doctors with a student, if/when required.
- Be responsible for unwell students and maintain medical records.
- Maintain high level of tidiness and liaise with Housekeeping as necessary.
- Support the Welfare Manager to manage the laundry system.
- Report any disciplinary issues to the Centre Manager and Welfare Manager.
- Gave daily meetings with assigned group of individuals.
- Act as a welfare point of contact for individual students.
- Communicate any welfare concerns to the Welfare Manager.
- Help students settle into life in the centre and the UK, ensuring that they have the correct. Information regarding personal safety, centre rules and UK Law.
- Support the Welfare Manager during student induction, orientation and creating Welcome Packs (ensuring that each student has a fully completed ID card and a wristband).
- Safeguarding duties.
- Support the Welfare Manager to record accidents, issues or incidents and note action taken relating to student welfare.
- Support Welfare manager with laundry requirements.
- Carry out meal time, free time and night time supervision duties as required.
- Check for student absences from classes by doing classroom checks and following up on absences.
- To monitor and supervise the centre sickbay when it is occupied.
- Assist the Welfare Manager to ensure that residences are cleaned and maintained to a high standard at all times.
- Be a role model for International students.

**Activities**
- Work with the team to design, organise and run the activity programme.
- Follow activity programme set out the activity manager unless requested to change due to weather or other circumstances.
- Support the Activities Manager to develop materials for Social Programme.
- Manage time appropriately by arriving early to set up activity and gather resources.
- Promote and update the activity programme using posters, noticeboards, sign-up sheets and in communicating with the students.
- Make sure you take a first aid kit on the activity.
- Complete a register for the activity and hand into the activity manager.
- Participate in all activities with enthusiasm.
- Encourage all students to participate in all activities.
- Make sure all students feel included in all activities.
- Report all incidents on activities, excursions or elsewhere, using the incident report form process.
- Attend and participate in all activity team meetings and excursion briefings.
- Support the Activities Manager to create Activity Packs.
- Consult the Risk Assessments before each activity.
- Familiarise yourself the Activity handbook.
- Ask the Activities Manager about any aspect of delivery that you are not sure about.

**Child Protection & Safeguarding**
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for and come into contact with.
- Familiarise yourself with the BSC Young Learners Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and BSC Safeguarding Policy.
- To adhere to the BSC Young Learners Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and BSC Safeguarding Policy.
- Ensure student rati