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Sam Marsh, Group Leader

Patrick Tumilty, Group Leader

Patrick has helped create positive change for young people, as a football coach in Ghana, and through Bikeability instructing in Bristol schools.

Patrick brings an inclusive, playful approach to leading groups. His study of counselling allows him to both challenge and to support each individual child to achieve their goals.

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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.

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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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