Play Worker - 4 hrs

Prison Advice and Care Trust; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free confidential advice and counselli

Cycle to work scheme

Life assurance

Eye care vouchers

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT) is seeking creative childcare workers to develop and manage play facilities for children visiting a prison. You will join the children’s services team to organise daily play and ensure activities are engaging and safe.

You should have experience planning play for children and families in challenging settings, along with strong communication and organisational skills, and a childcare-related qualification. Flexibility is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and delivering play to children and families in challenging environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Good communication and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver daily play activities for children visiting the prison.
• Provide support and play opportunities within the play facilities.
• Ensure safeguarding of children at all times during activities.
• Work as part of the children’s services team and participate in induction and training.

Skills

Playwork experience

Communication

Organisation

Flexible working

Education

Childcare qualification

Job description

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:

Pact offers a wide range of employee benefits including 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 acertificate of good conduct from the Police Force of the country of residence.

£26,227.50 per annum full time earnings, £9,616.75 actual earnings.