Playleader (Casual)

Storm Fitness is looking for energetic individuals to supervise a variety of sports activities for children. This exciting opportunity includes overseeing sports activities and organising sports parties.

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Storm Fitness is actively recruiting enthusiastic individuals to supervise a wide range of sports activities for children. This exciting opportunity includes overseeing school holiday sports and hosting sports parties on weekends.

Flexibility and enthusiasm are highly desired qualities in candidates.

Main Purpose of the Role:

To provide a safe, stimulating, and inclusive play environment where children can enjoy a variety of activities that promote learning, social development, and wellbeing. Playleaders will support children in structured and free play, ensuring they are engaged, supported, and encouraged to reach their potential.

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Supervise and engage children in a wide range of play and recreational activities.
  • Create a safe, supportive, and fun environment for children of all ages and abilities.
  • Encourage positive behaviour, teamwork, and inclusion during activities.
  • Assist in planning and delivering creative play sessions (indoor and outdoor).
  • Promote healthy lifestyles, independence, and confidence through play.
  • Ensure safeguarding, health and safety, and equality and diversity policies are followed at all times.
  • Communicate effectively with parents, carers, and colleagues.
  • Support children with additional needs to ensure they are fully included.

About You:

Essential:

  • Experience of working or volunteering with children in a play, youth work, childcare, or school setting.
  • Friendly, approachable, and able to build positive relationships with children and families.
  • Enthusiastic, energetic, and able to encourage participation in activities.
  • Good communication and teamwork skills.
  • Awareness of safeguarding, child protection, and health and safety.
  • Flexibility to work on a casual basis, sometimes at short notice.

Desirable:

  • A relevant qualification in Playwork, Childcare, Youth Work, or a related field (Level 2/3).
  • First Aid training.
  • Experience working with children with additional needs.
  • Creative skills (e.g. arts & crafts, music, drama, or sports) to enhance play opportunities.

The Right Candidate: 

  • Strong organisational skills
  • High standards of communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • A positive, resilient outlook
  • Excellent punctuality and reliability
  • Motivation and enthusiasm to inspire and engage class participants

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.