We work with primary and secondary schools across the Bristol area. Usually schools partner to create a group of 12 children, 6 from each partnered school. If you’re interested in working with us, please get in touch.

More information to follow.

Role Overview

Our Group Leaders lead a group of 12 children on activity trips across Bristol, looking after them, encouraging them, ensuring they’re safe at all times, enjoying their activities and building their skills.

Responsibilities

• Inspire and engage the children throughout the programme
• Encourage participation from all of the children and support them to get the most out of the programme and achieve the skills elements of the programme
• Clearly communicate expectations and required behaviours from the children, positively managing any challenging behaviours and conflicts arising within the group
• Ensure activities run to time
• Maintain the safety of the group throughout the programme; including taking registers, following risk assessments and appropriate policies, recording incidents and risks
• Be aware of and work within Wider World’s policies and procedures including (but not limited to) Behaviour, Safeguarding, Health and Safety, First Aid
• Support and manage the activity support staff
• Provide written observation notes to record children’s progress
• Ensure children complete their workbooks, and encourage parents/carers to provide feedback through our established processes
• Visit the children once a term in school to share photos and experiences, discuss achievements and help the children plan their next goals
• Work as part of the Wider World team to ensure the successful outcome of the programmes for all involved.

This is a fun role with a real sense of positive purpose. Our leaders go home tired but feeling like they’ve really made a difference to the children’s lives. Their positive impact has the potential to last a lifetime 12 times over. They build a respectful rapport with the children and help them to reach their own personal goals.

Person Spec

Essential

• Substantial experience of working with children aged 8-12 in a leadership role
• Energetic, enthusiastic, fun attitude – whilst maintaining the authority to lead the group
• Ability to engage and inspire, bring out the best in children and encourage participation
• Ability to deal assertively and positively with sometimes difficult behaviour / conflict, setting appropriate rules and boundaries
• Understanding of group dynamics and ability to deal positively with different personality types
• Organisational and time management skills (to ensure days run smoothly and to time)
• Reliability and ability to commit to the days offered
• Knowledge / interest in activity areas
• Good understanding of good practice in relation to Safeguarding and Health and Safety
• Currently holds up to date safeguarding and paediatric first aid training certificates (or willing to take these)

Desirable

• Teaching or youth work qualification
• Experience leading children on trips
• Experience of managing others (such as volunteers)

Training

• Wider World is committed to the welfare and protection of children and therefore will make appointments based on satisfactory references and criminal record (DBS) checks.
• NSPCC Safeguarding training
• First Aid Training
• Full induction
• Ongoing support from Programme Manager
• Ad-hoc web-based video conference training

A Typical Activity Day

Group Leaders meet the children, support staff and minibus driver at the children’s school(s) at around 9am, leaving with 6 of them en-route to the second school to collect the final 6. Once all children are onboard they travel to the first activity venue, spending approximately 2 hours taking part in an activity before boarding the minibus for the afternoon activity. After the children have inhaled their packed lunch their next activity will begin, lasting 2 hours before boarding the minibus one final time to be deposited back at school to meet their parents at about 3:30.

Find Out More

If you would like to know more about the role, please email jonothan-hope@wider-world.org.uk

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Ismene Cole, Group Leader