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Senior Play Worker Spring Oscars SCOT

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

Role: 12430 - Senior Play Worker Spring Oscars SCOT (Qualified)

Salary: Up to £23,150 per annum (pro-rata)

Contract/Hours: Permanent Term Time Part Time - 8.75 hours per week - Breakfast Club

Location: Edinburgh (Oscars @ Pentland)

Closing Date: Midnight of 5th August 2024

Benefits:

  • 20 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
  • Free childcare in our breakfast and after school clubs, with 50% discount in our holiday clubs
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
  • Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts

We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Oscars. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know…

About Oscars

Come and work in a key role with the wonderful growing team at Oscars, where our new management team encourage and support progression on our career pathway.

We offer warm and friendly childcare for children aged 5 to 14 years. Many of our sites are located within the local primary schools fostering close links with the surrounding community.

Our aim is to provide quality out of school childcare to children. We offer play and educational opportunities in a safe welcoming environment focusing on the social and educational welfare of each child. We are proud of our highly qualified and dedicated team who are passionate about nurturing children and promoting their well-being.

Hours / Shifts

For a Full Time Play Worker, the hours would be Breakfast Club and After School Club, with flexible administration time to create your full working week. The club shifts are:

Breakfast Club - Monday to Friday from 7.15am to 9am
After School Club - Monday to Thursday from 2pm to 6pm, and Friday from 11.30am to 6pm

We can also offer Part Time and Casual roles.

What you'll be doing

In the role of Senior Play Worker, you'll be:

  • Given dedicated daily non-contact time for paperwork & planning exciting activities for our children.
  • Leading the staff within the room on providing learning programmes for individual or groups of children appropriate to their needs and developmental stages in accordance with Early Years legislation and guidance.
  • Ensuring a safe, caring, stimulating and fun environment for all children at the club.
  • Engaging effectively with the children during their time in the club.
  • Planning and taking part in play and leisure activities for children.
  • Assisting with the set up of the club so it's ready for when the children arrive and that any snacks or breakfasts are prepared in line with healthy-eating guidelines.

What we need from you

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

  • SCQF Level 7 (which is equivalent to SVQ Level 3) or HNC in Childcare and Education or a Playworker qualification.
  • First Aid qualification and Basic Food Hygiene Certificate or the ability to achieve.
  • A real passion to work with children, make a difference and help them thrive.

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.

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

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

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.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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.