Play Worker - 4 hrs

Prison Advice and Care Trust; Hemel Hempstead; Vor Ort; GBP 12.000 - 17.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Free confidential advice and counsellI

Cycle to work scheme

Life assurance

Eye care vouchers

Generous annual leave

Plus more

Season Ticket loan

Charity worker discounts

Enhanced maternity package

Wellness and diversity groups

Blue light card

Zusammenfassung

Pact, the Prison Advice & Care Trust, is seeking a proactive childcare worker to organise and run a play facility for children visiting a prison. You will provide play opportunities, safeguard children, and work with the children’s services team to maintain a high standard of activities.

The role suits someone with childcare experience in challenging environments and a genuine interest in supporting families affected by imprisonment.

Qualifikationen

• You will have experience of planning and delivering play to children and families within a challenging environment.
• You should be studying for or have completed a childcare related qualification.
• You must have at least one year’s play work with children.
• You should have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and relate sensitively to visiting children.
• You must be able to work flexibly.

Aufgaben

• Provide support and play opportunities to children visiting the prison.
• Assist in organising a daily play facility for children visiting the prison.
• Ensure play facilities operate to an excellent standard.
• Safeguard children at all times and tailor activities to their needs.

Kenntnisse

Play work experience

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Flexibility

Communication

Ausbildung

Childcare qualification (in progress)

Jobbeschreibung

Are you full of creative ideas to keep kids happy and engaged? Well, you might just be the person we need. Read on...

Pact is looking for forward-thinking, creative childcare workers to join their play project. You will provide support and play opportunities to the children using play facilities at the prison. The post holder will work as one of the children’s services team, assisting in the organising of a daily play facility for children visiting the prison. You will ensure that the play facilities operate at an excellent standard and safeguard children at all times, ensuring that activities are suited to the range of children visiting.

About you:

You will have experience of planning and delivering play to children and families within a challenging environment; you will also be a good communicator, reliable and enthusiastic. This would suit someone who has finished or is currently studying for a childcare related qualification. You should have at least one year's experience of play work with children. It essential that you have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and can relate sensitively to the varying needs of the children visiting the prison. You must also have the ability to work flexibly.

What Pact Offer:

• free confidential advice and counselling service
• cycle to work scheme
• life assurance
• eye care vouchers
• generous annual leave
• plus more

You will have the opportunity to attend internal training events to further develop yourself as an effective support work and you will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.

Other information:

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).

This post is subject to a 6-month probationary period, verification of identity and proven right to work in the UK, satisfactory references from previous employers covering a 3-year period, declaration of any unspent criminal convictions (and where appropriate a satisfactory risk assessment), Prison Vetting and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note that being bankrupt or having County Court Judgments may affect your ability to be successfully vetted to work in a prison.

If you have lived overseas for a period of over 12 months (in the past 10 years while aged 18 or over), you will need to supply a certificate of good conduct from the Police Force of the country of residence.

About us

Pact (the Prison Advice & Care Trust) is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families.

Pact’s vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. We work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision and health & social care.

Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales. We are a diverse, inclusive, modern, and collaborative charity. We build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on our well-established understanding of the systems in which we work, and on our historic values and ethos developed through our 120+ years of service delivery.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome requests for job adverts and descriptions in accessible formats (for e.g. larger text) for candidates with disabilities, including those with neurodiversity. Please contact us via [e-mail], if you require any support in engaging in our recruitment process.

Hours

4 hours per week, Sunday, 1.45 -3.45 Monday 1.45 -3.45

• Generous Holiday allowance
• Season Ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Charity worker discounts
• Enhanced maternity package
• Wellness, inclusion, and diversity groups
• Blue light card