Play and Leisure Buddy (Sessional)

At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.

Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Children and Young People in the Cyfle Barnardo's Cymru?Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you have an interest in working with disabled children and young people?  These roles will predominantly in the Denbighshire area.

What is the purpose of the Cyfle Service?

The purpose of the service is to assist in inclusion, wider opportunities and enhance personal development. This will involve working with specific children on a regular, flexible basis, mainly during school holidays.

What does the Job Role involve?

As a Play and Leisure Buddy you will assist disabled children and young people to participate in a wide range of community based play and leisure activities.  Together with parents, young people and staff within other agencies, you will be:

• Responsible for organising children and young people individually,  and in groups.
• For planning, organising and scheduling Play and Leisure activities .

It is essential that you have the following:

• Knowledge of activities which are age appropriate to children and young people.
• An understanding of the needs of disabled children and young people.
• Experience of direct work with children and young people.
• Experience of organising and supervising the activities of children and young people in groups or individually.
• The ability to travel throughout the locality to meet the requirements of the post.
• An understanding of and commitment to the concept of inclusion.

Additional Information:

You must demonstrate in your application that you currently use the skills outlined above, and in the Job Description/Person Specifications, or have used them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering etc.

Barnardo's will endeavour to offer you employment in the capacity set out above from time to time. However, there will be periods when no work is available. We have no obligation to provide you with any work, or to provide any minimum hours of work in any day or week. In addition, you are not required to accept work offered by us to you.

Need more information?

If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Emma Williams at emma.williams@barnardos.org.uk .

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.  Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.

At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

Our basis and values