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YMCA Kirkcaldy - Outdoor Education Playworker
Created: 04/10/2022, Updated: 06/10/2022Post: Outdoor Education Playworker
Hours: 13.5 hours per week - Monday (09:15 - 13:15), Tuesday (09:15 - 15:15) and Thursday (09:15 - 13:15).
Salary: £9.90 per hour
Reports to: Programme and Funding Manager
Location: The Gallatown Garden, beside Kirkcaldy YMCA Hub, Oswald Road, Kirkcaldy KY1 3EZ
Contract: This post is a fixed-term post until 30 June 2023.
YMCA Kirkcaldy seeks to recruit an Outdoor Education Playworker to join its team. The role involves bringing organised outdoor community play activities to local primary school children in organised outdoor sessions at Kirkcaldy YMCA’s Gallatown Community Hub- encouraging, supporting and motivating the children to participate in free play and enjoy the outdoors, and providing inclusive opportunities for them to enjoy playing in an outdoor setting.
The post will be offered subject to satisfactory references, a successful PVG Disclosure check, and a 12-week probationary period.
Essential Criteria
Desirable criteria:
Key tasks and responsibilities:
The post holder, with support from the other Outdoor Education Playworker, will supervise and support any volunteers and junior staff engaged with the project. As this project is not childcare provision, no child should be left in the post holder's sole care. However, it is the post holder's responsibility to take all steps to ensure the safety of children at sessions, in accordance with all policies and procedures.
Regular support and supervision meetings will be arranged with the Programme and Funding Manager.
Please e-mail [email protected] to request an application pack.
The closing date for applications to this post is 08:00 on Monday 17 October 2022.