Youth and Leisure Manager - Trinity Fields

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Youth and Leisure Manager – Permanent, Part time: 18 hours per week

Trinity Field Leisure services is a Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) registered service providing short time, out of school play / care for children aged 4 -17 years old with severe/ complex learning and physical disabilities, who live in borough and are on the Trinity Fields School Register.

This role is to provide operational management on a day-to-day basis and to be the registered Responsible Individual for the service in Line with the CIW regulations and the statement of purpose for the service.

Building on the exceptional work of the previous post holder, a unique opportunity has arisen for a new manager to take this service forward. The new Youth and Leisure Manager will be responsible for driving the service forward and in collaboration with the school and social services, to ensure it is fit for the future.

The successful candidate will be expected to meet the minimum qualification levels and have extensive experience of working with children with severe/complex learning and physical disabilities in a statutory or regulated play, care or education setting, with additional experience of staff supervision or management in any setting.

The role is offered as an 18hr/week contract to be worked on a flexible basis to meet the requirements of the service. This role is ideally suited to candidates wishing to combine it with another role e.g. in a school, care provision or other part time job. It is equally suitable to be taken as a stand-alone position.

You will be expected to work flexibly and to manage your own time. Due to the nature of provision being outside school hours, your core hours will be outside of school hours, with administrative time that can be flexible within traditional school hours.

You will be required to be available and working on rota basis with senior staff in the service, when the scheme operates:

• Saturdays – daytimes
• week days in school holidays (Excluding Christmas)
• potentially after school clubs
• Administration time – can be taken flexibly during the week.

Deadline for applications is 12pm on Friday 27th June. Interviews are scheduled for 8th July for a September start (pending all employee checks).

Salary: Grade 9 SCP 28 - 31, application forms can be accessed and submitted via Eteach.

To view the Job Description and Person Specification please select the relevant attachment from the attachments list

After reading the Job Description and Person Specification, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role please contact Dave Jenkins, Executive Head Teacher on 01443 866000 or email: trinityfieldsschool@sch.caerphilly.gov.uk

Successful applicants will benefit from a full induction programme and ongoing support and development. You will also have access to our comprehensive continuing professional development programme.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

We are legally obliged to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. If you are invited to interview, you will be asked to provide appropriate documents such as your full birth certificate/passport/work permit in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Under the Education (Wales) Act 2014 all Learning Support staff in schools, (which includes the post referred to herein), must be registered with the Education Workforce Council for Wales (EWC) from 1 April 2016.

Your employment will be subject to satisfactory documentary evidence of registration, and continuing registration, as a Learning Support Assistant with the EWC.

Information on how to register with the Education Workforce Council (EWC) can be found on the following website https://www.ewc.wales/site/index.php/en/ or by telephoning, 02920 460099. It is your responsibility to ensure you register and continue to register as part of your terms and conditions of employment.

This vacancy has been processed in English only because the are no Welsh language requirements.