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Holiday SEN Playworker

Job details
Posting date: 18 January 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Competitive
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 February 2025
Location: Bolton
Company: inploi
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 75678361

Summary

Grade - C £12.64 per hour

Contract Fixed Term/Casual

Role specifics You must be aged 17 years or older by April 2025.


The Role

To provide good quality, inclusive, safe play/care including meeting children’s individual needs, supervision of activities, outings and provision. Ensuring the provision of high-quality childcare and appropriate play opportunities for all children attending the scheme.

This role is working with children / young people with special educational needs (SEN).


About You

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who have some experience of working with children and young people.

You must have an interest in working with children and young people and be able to bring some activities/skills to enable you to work as part of team to ensure the children have an enjoyable time whilst at the setting.

This role is working with children / young people with SEN.


The Service is looking to recruit dynamic and enthusiastic individuals on a fixed term basis to support both children and young people with specific additional needs to access play and youth opportunities in a variety of settings. Experience of working with children/young people aged 4-12 and/or 13-19 years old with specific additional needs is essential.


Successful candidates will be required to take part in some training before starting the role and must be available 5 days out of 7 (Monday to Sunday) for the Easter Holidays and Summer holidays 2025, dates specified above, (no additional time off will be permitted between these dates).

Interviews will be held in February 2025. All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check, and you must be aged 18 or over by April 2025.


About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.


Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.


As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.


Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.


Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and explain how you meet the points on the person specification.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.


We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.


This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.


This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.


For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk


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