Swyddi ar lein
Early Play and Development Officer
£25,584 - £27,269 a year | Temporary
- Reference:
- 24-28154
- Job title:
- Early Play and Development Officer
- Directorate:
- Children and Supporting Families
- Service:
- Early Years Team
- Closing date:
- 31/03/2025 10:00
- Job type/Hours:
- Temporary year | 37 Hour
- Salary:
- £25,584 - £27,269 a year
- Pay Scale:
- GS4
- Location(s):
- See Job Advertisement
Details
Job Advertisement
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.
(Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)
For further information about this post please contact Susan Layton on 01286 6788244
Interview date to be confirmed.
Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel: 01286 679076
E-Mail: Swyddi@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
CLOSING DATE: 31/03/2025
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.
Person Specification
Personal attributes
Essential
A patient individual who possesses the imagination to instruct individuals groups in an engaging manner.
Possess a diplomatic and welcoming personality.
Calmness and flexibility.
Able to collaborate with a variety and a wide range of people
An individual who is able to receive responsibilities, and communicate effectively
Able to prioritise work and meet specific deadlines.
Able to work under pressure, and as a team member.
Desirable
-
Qualifications and relevant training
Essential
A good standard of education up to A Level or equivalent and a level 3 NVQ/QCF for support workers, or willing to work towards this qualification.
A good range of experience or ample experience in the health, education or social care field will be considered as an additional qualification.
Desirable
Play qualification
Family Support Qualification
Relevant experience
Essential
Good organisational skills
Experience of working in multi-agency situations
Possess good computer skills and be able to use Microsoft Office programmes (e.g. Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
Car user with a current driving licence
Possess contemporary knowledge of legislation of relevance to children’s field and especially within the early years, family support and child care field.
Possess skills to prepare and create reports and clear, concise and effective documents.
Able to identify and evaluate requirements by using various methods.
Be an effective communicator, verbally and in writing, with a wide audience.
Desirable
Understanding of the family support, early years and play that’s available locally.
Skills and specialist knowledge
Essential
Experience in the play and early child development field.
Experience of promoting play skills.
Experience of working effectively with others including children, parents, staff and agencies.
Experience of running groups and sessions.
Experience of writing reports.
Desirable
Experience of providing professional advice and information for various audiences
Experience of assessing and responding to diverse and complex requirements
Experience of involving children, young people and their parents in planning, development and providing services.
Language requirements
Listening and Speaking - Higher
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.Able to give a pre-prepared presentation and respond to any comments and questions on it in Welsh or English.
Reading and Understanding - Higher
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.Able to gather information from various sources such as letters, reports, articles through the medium of Welsh and English in order to fulfil the post.
Writing - Higher
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).
Job Description
Purpose of the post
•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
•TEAM PURPOSE – ‘Support the family to enable the child to develop and reach their full potential’
•To work with Flying Start /Families First, Families that have children identified with additional learning needs
•Conduct basic skills, family support, play and communication, sessions on a regular basis with families individuallly or as a group.
Responsibility for functions
•Equipment
•IT equipment – Laptop and mobile phone
Main duties
•Conduct one to one sessions with families, either within the home or in a local location, based on a structured plan that has been agreed with the referrer. Work with parents to support their children’s needs.
•Implement an Individual development Plan which puts the child and family centrally, working alongside the ALN legislation.
•Conduct thorough assessments to identify children’s strengths and weaknesses and to design an intervention together with the family to support with these needs. To use skills, training and specialist experience when supporting parents and their children, using ELKLAN, PORTAGE and WELLCOMM and ‘Parent and child interaction’ and other principles, in groups and one to one.
•Monitor each family and child’s progress, by writing and reviewing reports and plans regularly to support the needs of the family, and working alongside the ALN legislation.
•Offer information to parents about varied agencies, so when needed you are able to refer the family on.
•Communicate effectively with parents.
•Support parents to develop their skills enabling them to support their child’s development.
•Responsibility to attend Family meetings to report, review, and measure progress and to discuss individual family plans.
•Collaborate with childcare settings to transfer children effectively by sharing information about Individual development Plan targets and to offer expertise by mentoring staff supporting new children on delivering an effective plan for the child’s individual needs.
•Arrange and conduct activities as noted in the Speech, language and communication guidance. Ensuring that the team offer an annual programme of groups in cooperation with the Senior Development and Play worker, and other partners by.
•Coordinate, arrange and monitor the grant spent to promote Flying start ‘Family Fun’ activities.
•Identifying appropriate locations (if needed) to run new sessions, and to complete risk assessments when needed.
•Identify the appropriate staff and agree on full commitment to run courses, e.g. Health visitors, Mudiad Meithrin, Library Service, Families First, Speech and Language therapists, etc.
•Collaborate to identify appropriate parents/ carers and marketing session locally.
•Choose and prepare resources that are necessary to lead play activities, bringing attention to the service users by attending to the parents/ guardian interests, their language, background and cultural background.
•Demonstrate resources carefully in their locations and to promote an appropriate atmosphere for the ages.
•Collect feedback regarding the groups and plays sessions via questionnaires, and collating information regarding successes and difficulties, and working with the Team to introduce any new developments.
•Keeping a record and data of every session by producing a statistical breakdown, of monitoring and performance reports.
•Present information cataloguing resources, present reports to the Senior workers, and order as and when needed.
•Sustaining specialised resources, to verify safety, undertake specialised changes when needed.
•Comply with Child Protection procedures and to report when necessary.
•Attend team meeting, supervisions and working group meetings within the Early Development Unit when necessary.
•Support, co work and help colleagues working on the programme to co deliver sessions, and implement visits in family’s homes.
•Responsibility for self-development.
•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
•Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
•Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
•Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
•Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
•Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.
Special circumstances
•Work 37 hours a week.
•Occasionally the officer will need to work unsociable hours following discussion with line manager.
