Disability Leader
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £14.33 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Surrey, South East England |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | YMCA East Surrey |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 20250924DL |
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We are recruiting for a Disability Leader. You will be responsible for overseeing, delivering and leading Short Breaks Club sessions for children and young people with a disability or additional needs, and ensuring all safeguarding, regulator and health & safety requirements are met.
This role requires someone with, or with a willingness to undertake; Child Care/Youth Work level 2 / 3 or equivalent qualification (or working towards); relevant training in positive behaviour management, positive touch and epilepsy; Introduction to Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults; Food Hygiene training
Key responsibilities:
• Taking responsibility of the day to day running of Children and Young People’s services to ensure the service provided is safe, high quality and appropriate for those who attend.
• When the coordinator/manager is not available to act as the responsible person in charge of the scheme.
• Taking a lead during sessions of ensuring that are aware of what all children are doing and that they are signed into and out of the service correctly
• Building trusting relationships with children and young people that enable them to benefit from services provided.
• Leading a team, supporting them with their roles and knowing when to get further support from more senior team members.
• Ensuring all children and young people upon their arrival are welcomed and feel comfortable and valued enabling the development and improvement of self-esteem, self-confidence and positive experiences
• When required, ensuring appropriate care plans and risk assessments are carried out for specific children and young people to meet any additional needs.
• Where appropriate, working with parents and families, ensuring we have the correct information about the children and young people that attend. To ensure that parents and carers are kept informed of incidents/ accidents / issues
• Contributing to the planning, organisation and delivery of activities, ensuring they are adapted where appropriate to be accessible to all, using and checking children’s Care Plans.
• Working closely with individuals and where appropriate their families to offer a range of free play opportunities as well as a structured programme of social, play and leisure activities to the varying ages and needs of the children attending the service.
• Preparing and planning the session planning documents to ensure smooth running of the day, including staff allocation, toileting record, daily staff logs and lunch rota.
• Supervising the activity environment to ensure physical and emotional/personal safety for all children and young people attending, including completing appropriate records of any accidents, injuries or incidents and any medication administered
• Ensuring children’s choices are evidenced and feedback gathered from children in a suitable manner.
• Providing and supervise the hygienic provision of refreshments, recognising the principles of a balanced diet and the requirements of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds and allergies
• Ensuring resources are set up and packed up while being kept neat and tidy as well as to inform the coordinator/manager if extra resources are required.
• Ensuring that all children and young people are made to feel valued and enabled to develop and improve self-esteem, self-confidence and positive experiences
• Where necessary, administering first aid for children and/or medication, ensuring that have attended necessary training with regards to this
• Providing and supervising hygienic provision of personal care, ensuring privacy, dignity at all times and recording in care plan.
• Receiving medication from parents/carers, checking, recording and storing safely following procedures and administering it, where necessary, and keeping accurate and up to date records.
• Assisting with moving and handling of children/adults with restricted mobility, after appropriate training, including hoisting and use of mobility equipment.
• Providing high level of support for children/adults with complex needs, ensuring care plans / behaviour plans are understood and followed to meet individuals’ needs.
• Regular use of aids to support communication and sensory impairment needs.
• Providing high level of diligence and surveillance for the child you are supporting, including personal hygiene, behaviour, nutrition, sensory and play needs, feeding back new observations to the Leader.
• Accompanying and leading trips, following procedures and policies, risk assessment and keeping them safe whilst providing high level of support.
• Providing annual leave cover for the Coordinator
• Supporting children/adults with eating and drinking as specified within their care plans / guidelines.
• Assisting children/adults to engage with activities providing appropriate support and help to achieve desired outcomes.
• Working with the rest of the team to help ensure attendance figures reach agreed targets in line with budgets, including supporting with promotional tasks including taking photos and attending promotional events.
• Being flexible in order to meet the needs of service including covering sites aside from usual site.
• Undertaking any other duties and responsibilities reasonably requested
PAY:
• £14.33 per hour
Successful candidates will already have the right to live and work in the UK without restrictions. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
For further assistance please contact HR@ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk
YMCA East Surrey requires all staff to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns. Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced DBS (including the Children’s and Adult’s barred lists) check, along with reference checks.
This role requires someone with, or with a willingness to undertake; Child Care/Youth Work level 2 / 3 or equivalent qualification (or working towards); relevant training in positive behaviour management, positive touch and epilepsy; Introduction to Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults; Food Hygiene training
Key responsibilities:
• Taking responsibility of the day to day running of Children and Young People’s services to ensure the service provided is safe, high quality and appropriate for those who attend.
• When the coordinator/manager is not available to act as the responsible person in charge of the scheme.
• Taking a lead during sessions of ensuring that are aware of what all children are doing and that they are signed into and out of the service correctly
• Building trusting relationships with children and young people that enable them to benefit from services provided.
• Leading a team, supporting them with their roles and knowing when to get further support from more senior team members.
• Ensuring all children and young people upon their arrival are welcomed and feel comfortable and valued enabling the development and improvement of self-esteem, self-confidence and positive experiences
• When required, ensuring appropriate care plans and risk assessments are carried out for specific children and young people to meet any additional needs.
• Where appropriate, working with parents and families, ensuring we have the correct information about the children and young people that attend. To ensure that parents and carers are kept informed of incidents/ accidents / issues
• Contributing to the planning, organisation and delivery of activities, ensuring they are adapted where appropriate to be accessible to all, using and checking children’s Care Plans.
• Working closely with individuals and where appropriate their families to offer a range of free play opportunities as well as a structured programme of social, play and leisure activities to the varying ages and needs of the children attending the service.
• Preparing and planning the session planning documents to ensure smooth running of the day, including staff allocation, toileting record, daily staff logs and lunch rota.
• Supervising the activity environment to ensure physical and emotional/personal safety for all children and young people attending, including completing appropriate records of any accidents, injuries or incidents and any medication administered
• Ensuring children’s choices are evidenced and feedback gathered from children in a suitable manner.
• Providing and supervise the hygienic provision of refreshments, recognising the principles of a balanced diet and the requirements of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds and allergies
• Ensuring resources are set up and packed up while being kept neat and tidy as well as to inform the coordinator/manager if extra resources are required.
• Ensuring that all children and young people are made to feel valued and enabled to develop and improve self-esteem, self-confidence and positive experiences
• Where necessary, administering first aid for children and/or medication, ensuring that have attended necessary training with regards to this
• Providing and supervising hygienic provision of personal care, ensuring privacy, dignity at all times and recording in care plan.
• Receiving medication from parents/carers, checking, recording and storing safely following procedures and administering it, where necessary, and keeping accurate and up to date records.
• Assisting with moving and handling of children/adults with restricted mobility, after appropriate training, including hoisting and use of mobility equipment.
• Providing high level of support for children/adults with complex needs, ensuring care plans / behaviour plans are understood and followed to meet individuals’ needs.
• Regular use of aids to support communication and sensory impairment needs.
• Providing high level of diligence and surveillance for the child you are supporting, including personal hygiene, behaviour, nutrition, sensory and play needs, feeding back new observations to the Leader.
• Accompanying and leading trips, following procedures and policies, risk assessment and keeping them safe whilst providing high level of support.
• Providing annual leave cover for the Coordinator
• Supporting children/adults with eating and drinking as specified within their care plans / guidelines.
• Assisting children/adults to engage with activities providing appropriate support and help to achieve desired outcomes.
• Working with the rest of the team to help ensure attendance figures reach agreed targets in line with budgets, including supporting with promotional tasks including taking photos and attending promotional events.
• Being flexible in order to meet the needs of service including covering sites aside from usual site.
• Undertaking any other duties and responsibilities reasonably requested
PAY:
• £14.33 per hour
Successful candidates will already have the right to live and work in the UK without restrictions. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
For further assistance please contact HR@ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk
YMCA East Surrey requires all staff to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns. Successful applicants are required to undertake an Enhanced DBS (including the Children’s and Adult’s barred lists) check, along with reference checks.