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Club Manager at Dawn Until Dusk
Location: Kempston
£14 per hour negotiable
Available to start: 21st July for 6 weeks
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm
Dawn Until Dusk Ltd. Before, After School & Holiday Club provides high quality, fun, vibrant child centered and affordable out of school play provision for children at 20 schools in and around Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. At Dawn Until Dusk Ltd, we place the importance of a home from home environment in our settings, where children are encouraged to flourish through an exciting array of play opportunities and experiences.
As a Manager within our settings, you will have the opportunity to lead a range of activities, including role play, arts and crafts, bouncy castle time, disco’s, visits and outings like when we go to feed the lambs and so so much more! Your day to day role will be ever-changing, exciting and full of laughter and your focus can be enjoying these activities and supporting children to engage and develop through the 16 play types.
The Role
You will be working at our settings within schools Monday - Friday, we are looking for someone to work 40 hours per week for 6 weeks of the summer holidays.
We care about our children and know them really well, and we hope you will love this job as much as we do.
Staff retention is really important to us, making sure our team members can come to work every day looking forward to their shift in a positive, supportive clean environment. We have staff who have worked with us since 2014 and any new staff that join us now, we want to take care of you too.
Benefits
* Free childcare for staff (subject to availability)
* Pension scheme
* Excellent in-house training with accredited courses, opportunity to gain further qualifications, virtual learning and career progression opportunities.
* Work at a setting locally to you to minimise travel costs
* Lovely working environment with brilliant, hard working, like minded people.
* Bonus schemes
* Working with an employer who genuinely cares about you!
Our Setting
* Kempston
Qualifications And Experience
* Ideally hold a level 1, 2 or 3 qualification in Childcare/ Early Years but not essential
* Management experience desirable
* Experience within a nursery/preschool/childminding environment
* A willingness to undertake relevant training in the future
* Own transport to get to the venues
* A passion for childcare and a genuine interest in child development.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
* As a Manager, you will ensure every individual child’s needs are met, including supporting parents with any SEND needs and your staff team
* Take ownership of the observation, assessments and planning for your key children in line with EYFS and provide developmentally challenging next steps.
* Be a key player to ensure the setting receives excellent outcomes in internal audits and those of external authorities such as Ofsted, Environmental health etc.
* Ensure we encourage and praise children’s development and achievements.
* Ensuring that the supervision of the children from your team of Playworkers is sufficient – children need to always be within sight or hearing and ideally within sight and hearing
* Delivering and assisting the Playworkers with leading the timetabled activities that you’ve created together to a group of children from 2 to 13 years old.
* Coordinating staff to ensure staff to child ratios are always followed.
* Understanding and following the requirements of the Ofsted voluntary and childcare register and early years register.
* To manage the sign in and sign out process with parent and children
* To manage child behaviour in line with the child behaviour policy
* To manage and organise your team effectively
* To manage bookings and maximise places at the club with the administration team
* Follow all company policies – you need to know them, understand them and implement them.
* Admin and paperwork required in line with Ofsted, early years and childcare regulations such as reporting.
* Recording and reporting any safeguarding concerns to your Area Manager and following the safeguarding procedure and to speak up against practices that don’t support safeguarding or our core values.
* Ensure all of you team know and understand the safeguarding procedure
We can't wait to welcome you to the team and begin the journey together!
We reserve the right to close a job prior to the initial closing date therefore if you can see yourself working with us we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. There is only 1 position open for this role.
All of our posts are covered by the Children Act 1989 and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Posts are subject to a satisfactory DBS and reference checks and are not open to anyone on the DBS Barred List. For more information please email our head office joinus@kidsdawntildusk.co.uk. We follow safer recruitment practices and therefore ask all applicants to complete a full application form
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