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Holiday Club Manager

Reporting to: Projects Director

Job Purpose: To lead the development and delivery of a high quality child-centred holiday club that adheres to all statutory and legal requirements, and embraces diversity

Terms of work: 24 days per year during Easter and Summer

Location: Carshalton

Playscheme Description: 12 place Holiday club for children aged 5-12 years with special needs run 6 days at Easter and 14 days in summer.

Wage: £12 per hour


DUTIES

Management

To liaise with Projects Director and steering group to plan and implement a high quality holiday club, that puts the needs of children first.

To create and maintain an ethos where diversity is valued, all children, parents staff and volunteers of all ethnicities, ages, gender, religion, economic status, sexualities and abilities feel equally valued.

To agree quality standards and methods of monitoring with Projects Director and implement as required.

To be involved in the development and review of playscheme policies and procedures

To work within agreed budgets

To ensure safe storage of confidential information

To be involved in the recruitment and training of staff and volunteers

To provide inductions for all new staff and volunteers

To provide leadership for staff and volunteer team

To organise staff rotas ensuring minimum staff ratios are met

To manage human and physical resources of the scheme

To write project reports

To organise small scale fundraising activities

To attend steering group meetings


Administration


To receive payments from parents and issue receipts

To keep clear records of payments received

To bank payments

To provide financial updates to Projects Director



Quality Assurance

To become familiar with quality assurance system

To set up and implement monitoring systems

To ensure staff and volunteers are familiar with quality assurance standards


Children?s Care Learning and Development

To allocate places to children ensuring a balance of needs within the scheme

To organise settling in days

To conduct home visits where deemed necessary

To work with team to plan group and individual activities for children

To work with staff , parents, children and volunteer to agree care plans for children

To provide personal care and toileting for children who require it

To ensure children are safe at all times by implementing child protection and health and safety policies

To ensure safety of yourself, staff and volunteers, parents and others who access the playscheme site

To administer first aid as required

To model good practice for staff and volunteer team

To organise the preparation of snacks that nutritious and delicious and with high food hygiene standards

To coordinate the transporting of equipment and play resources to playscheme site as required.


Parent Partnership

To work closely with parents to develop care and learning plans for children

To provide inductions for parents

To provide information and support for parents as concerning the care and development of their children

To ensure parents receive regular feedback on children


Partnership with Host

To actively engage as partners in the scheme

To communicate regularly and effectively about practical strategic and issues

To develop good relationship with the school


Other

To contribute to the long-term development of the scheme

To attend meetings when required

To work in an anti-discriminatory way within an equal opportunities framework.

To contribute to annual review of job descriptions, policies and procedures.

Working within agreed policies and procedures

Carry out any other duties as required.

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