About Us At Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.
With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
Hounslow Play Service runs a number of services at Redlees Play Centre in Isleworth and Reflections in Bedfont. These include a One O’Clock Club at Redlees for the under 5s as well as summer play schemes for children and young people aged 5-18, run from both sites.
Our service enables children and young people, including those with disabilities, to participate in arts and crafts, outdoor activities, sports and games and local trips/outings within the community.
We are looking for creative and resourceful sessional play workers who enjoy working with children and young people, to support the running of these schemes. There are opportunities throughout the year.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Hounslow Play Service runs play provision for children and young people at Redlees in Isleworth and Reflections in Bedfont. Our schemes are popular with local families and we aim to provide a play environment that is interesting and stimulating for all ages and abilities. Our sessional play workers report to the centre co-ordinator or team leader.
About You
We are looking for individuals who have had previous experience of working with children and/or young people aged 5 - 18. This could be in a paid or voluntary capacity. They must really enjoy working with this age group and the challenges that it can bring. Most of all, we welcome candidates who are able to provide play opportunities that are interesting and engaging to children and young people of all abilities. Given the nature of the role, we would expect candidates to have an understanding of how to keep children and young people safe at all times.
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
* Ability to work with children/young people and have an understanding of how to support those with SEND.
* Ability to build relationships with the children/young people and other members of the team.
* Ability to understand when to raise issues of concern with supervisor.
* Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality with children/young people and your team.
Qualifications
Experience of working with children and young people – paid or unpaid.
Essential For The Role
Enhanced DBS
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 7th July 2025.
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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 7th July 2025. #J-18808-Ljbffr