Play Leader Oscars

**Role: Play Leader**

**Salary: £10.94 - £12.85 per hour (depending on experience)**

**Contract/Hours: Permanent/Part Time - Various shift patterns to offer you flexibility. Mornings, Afternoons or School Holidays shifts**

**Location: Haddington, East Lothian**

**Benefits: We have some of the best employment terms and benefits package in the sector, including generous leave entitlement, paid time off to deal with family emergencies and paid maternity leave - as well as lots of benefits to save you and your family money and to save for your future. Check out more on our careers portal.**

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**About Oscars**

Spring Oscars by Action for Children provide energetic and invigorating modern play experiences through our engaging out of school clubs across the UK. Any profit we make is used to support vulnerable children and young people in need across the UK, through the work of Action for Children.

Our clubs offer flexible childcare for parents through breakfast clubs, after school clubs and holiday clubs where children can thrive and develop. Children aged 5-14 years benefit from inclusive activities that encourage positive play attitudes and behaviours. We have various settings across England, Scotland and Wales and work in partnership with schools to achieve the best outcomes for children.

**Breakfast Club Cover (Monday-Friday 07.00 - 09.00)**

**After School Club Cover (Monday - Friday 14.00-18.00)**

**Holiday Clubs Cover (Monday-Friday 08.00-18.00)**

**What you'll be doing**

In the role of Play Leader, you'll be:

- Ensuring a safe, caring and welcoming environment for all children attending Spring Oscars Out of School Clubs at all times.
- Promoting the emotional, physical, social, psychological, developmental, and educational well-being of children as paramount
- Leading and be responsible for the day-to-day management of a Spring OSCARS before and after school care, providing care and play opportunities in a safe and secure environment
- Preparing the club for the days activities, and to ensure that any snack or breakfast is prepared in line with healthy eating guidelines. Encourage children to be independent in preparation and serving of snack and engage with all children in tidying up.
- Managing a team of Play Work staff and provide induction, supervision, team meetings, appraisals and identify training and development needs. Ensure the staff team are fully briefed and understand their duties.
- Communicating with all relevant partners which may include, colleagues, host venues, parents, and regulators. Ensure the effective and accurate completion and recording of company and regulatory documentation i.e., self-assessment, action plans & take a lead role in providing information to the regulators during visits/inspections.**What we need from you**

In the role of Play Leader, we're ideally looking for someone who has:

- A recognised Early Years qualification SCQF Level 7 or equivalent on the Framework
- Experience of working in a senior role within a nursery or out of school setting or experience of working with children of school age.
- Leading a staff team, including supervision, work allocation, assessment or training and professional development needs.
- Paediatric 1st Aid at Work or be willing to undertake.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

**Diversity, equality and inclusion**

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Good luck We can't wait to hear from you.

**Application process**: There are 5 sections for you to complete, Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying. We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

**Talent pool**: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.

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