Club & Project Leader - Childrens Disability Services

About the role

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Are you looking to further develop your leadership skills in a role where your creative & development skills can flourish?

Perhaps you are seeking a new challenge working with disabled children and young people?

A next step, full of opportunities to develop and support others to thrive?

Then we hope this new and exciting Club Leader role is for you!

About CamPlay…

We are called CamPlay and are part of service called Community Support. We’ve been supporting disabled children and young people for over 20 years, and even if we say so ourselves, we’re pretty good at it, you only need to read the feedback below to see our children and young people and their families tell us they love coming to CamPlay!

What our families say about CamPlay...

“I enjoy going to CamPlay in the Holidays. I enjoy the activities and the trips and I like to see the staff as they are all really friendly" – young person aged 11.

"S absolutely LOVES going to club. Every session he comes out and says it was the best one yet and is already looking forward to the next one. He talks about his friends from club all the time at home and feels really safe enough to challenge himself and do things he wouldn't do at home." – Parent.

“She has developed a lot of confidence, her speech has improved significantly. She enjoys both the holiday club and Saturday club, has developed friendships, created a positive routine for herself during the weekends and has something to look forward to in the holidays”. – Parent.

We are really busy, running 17 Saturday and Community Clubs across the county and in the holidays, we run 13 Holiday Clubs in 6 different areas during Easter, Summer and Christmas (told you we were busy!) Our Clubs support a wide range of children and young people with a learning and or physical disability. We provide a safe, fun and engaging place where children and young people can play, make friends, get out into their local community and develop lifelong skills in preparation for adulthood.

CamPlay clubs run in Chatteris, Ely, March, Whittlesey, Wisbech, Huntingdon, St Neots, Cambridge and Grafham Water.

Your main office base in term time Monday - Friday will be a mix of Huntingdon and working from home. 

About the role…

Contracted Club Leaders will have an annualised contract and work 1176 hours over the year.

20 hours Term Time = 44 weeks a year, 880 hours

37 hours a week for 2 weeks at Easter, 5 weeks at Summer and 1 week pre Christmas Holidays, 8 weeks a year, 296 hours

This can be flexible, so please don’t worry.

You’ll be motivating, leading and supervising a team of Play Workers and Play Leaders. You’ll be involved in the planning, preparation and delivering of Clubs including rotas of clubs, activities, events, equipment and resources. You’ll be leading and developing clubs, giving children and young people the best experiences at CamPlay. You’ll create a space where independence, communication, choice and decision making is at the forefront of everything we offer.

As part of your role, you’ll be visiting families to talk about what we offer, making them feel confident in our service and finding out all the things about their child that they need to make sure they are safe when they are with us.

CamPlay is a dynamic and fast paced service, but it’s a very friendly and supportive team. We have a rich and experienced team, and we are proud of each and every one of them.

“Watching the Management Team work over the summer honestly made me realise what a dedicated team I work for which is brilliant and very inspiring! Seeing my managers get stuck in and work within a variety of situations does bring home what a great service we are and I am proud to work for you all”. –  Club Leader

The role is 20 hours per week term time and will include weekend working but this will be on a rotational basis – so not every weekend. When our Holiday Clubs are running you’ll be leading these clubs 37 hours per week. You can chose to work additional weekends on a relief contract.

About you..

• Creative, fun and full of enthusiasm
• Experience of supporting children or young people with a disability
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills
• Reliable, motivated and able lead a diverse team
• Dedicated to delivering inclusive services to children and young people with additional needs
• Enjoys challenges and problem solving
• Able to travel freely around the county
• Flexibility to work weekends and during summer, Easter and Christmas holidays
• Passion for leading teams and groups of people
• Understanding of play work principles
• Understanding of the significance of safeguarding and procedures

What we can offer you..

• 20 hours per week of flexible working around your schedule and our service requirements
• Weekend enhancements for a Club Leader increase the hourly rate to Saturday £20.54 per hour and Sundays £24.37 per hour. 
• Additional Play Working available £12.18 p/h with weekend enhancements of Saturday £18.27 per hour and Sundays £21.68 per hour. 
• Bespoke induction and mentoring program
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Monthly supervision, support and regular team meetings  
• A creative, dynamic and supportive team to work within
• Opportunities to shape and develop our services

"CamPlay is a really nice environment to work in. The Managers and Club Leaders not only give praise to the group but will always take time to highlight good practice and successes for individual staff members" – Play Worker

We’d love you to give us a call and have a chat about the Club Leader role and our service. We can tell you much more about how wonderful it is to work at CamPlay.

We’re proud that we have a really solid induction, and we want to grow and nurture our staff, so if you’re worried you’re not experienced enough, don’t let it put you off.

You can call us on 01480 379800 or if you prefer, email us at cam.play@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

We only have 1 contracted Club Leader position left out of 4 so please do not hesitate to contact us

We are looking forward to hearing from you.