Outdoor Education Worker Crewe, England
Job description
We are looking for Outdoor Education Workers who are passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people through engagement activities both outdoors and indoors, who are creative, innovative, and organised, who can work as part of a team as well as under their own initiative.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
Brighter Future
Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)
We are recruiting Outdoor Education Workers to join our Youth Support Service.
The vision for our Youth Support Service is that all young people can enjoy their lives, reach their full potential and make a good transition to adulthood.
The role of the Outdoor Education Worker is to lead on the delivery of targeted outdoor education sessions and engagement programmes. We are looking for both qualified outdoor ed, sports workers and those that have experience in delivering engagement activities to young people. The role involves engaging vulnerable young people aged 13-19 years ( 25 years SEND). This will be delivered through programmes during the day and in the evening, project based work, both in buildings and in the community through detached youth work.
We are looking for Outdoor Education Workers who are passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, who are creative, innovative, and organised, who can work as part of a team as well as under their own initiative.
You will lead on the planning, delivery and evaluation targeted engagement programmes and promote the physical, personal, social and educational development of young people across Cheshire East. The role will include assessing young people’s needs, measuring impact, evidencing outcomes and recording on systems.
You will be required to complete and implement risk assessments in line with Health & Safety and Safeguarding procedures. Record on health and safety systems. Maintain and complete audit checks on equipment in line with our current outdoor education licence’s.
For more information please contact - [email protected]
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
