INTERPLAY

THE STAFF OF INTERPLAY

PERMANANT STAFF

1 full time Manager - John Thomas	1 part time administrator - Annie Clark
1 part time Development Worker for the Year Round project - John Hawkins	1 part time admin assistant - Gwion Williams

SUMMER WORKERS

Interplay employ up to 80 play workers over the summer period who fall into 6 categories:

PLAYLEADERS
PLAY ASSISTANTS
CHOOSEDAY ACTIVITY LEADERS
CHOOSEDAY ASSISTANTS
FLOATING WORKERS
MOBILE WORKERS

Playleaders work for one week before the scheme and visit the young people in their homes and assess their needs and then liase with parents throughout the schemes. Play assistants / Chooseday assistants work for the duration of the schemes to provide extra support so integration can take place. As well as the responsibilities of Playleader, the Chooseday leader takes on the organising and financial management of their scheme. Floating workers work with a scheme that needs extra support as assistants.

Mobile workers - In the event of particular problems (worker sickness, unforeseen support needs, etc.) some of the organisation's most experienced workers are employed to be "dropped in" to a scheme at short notice and for a limited time to sort the problem out. This involves a high degree of adaptability and experience with a wide range of schemes, workers and children. The use of Mobile workers is very successful and was made more effective by providing them with pagers. This made them easier to contact in the case of an emergency.

YEAR ROUND PROJECT WORKERS

CHOOSEDAY WEEKENDS - We employ between 3 and 10 workers, depending on the size of the group of young people and the type of activities, to run these two day activity sessions as well as buying in tutors and other specialists to run workshops.

JOINERS - Interplay employs experienced staff to work with young people for up to 3 months.

SUMMER CHOOSEDAYS - see summer workers above

OTHER PROJECTS

BLUE LIGHT DISCOS - We employ between 3 - 6 workers to support young people to take part in the Police run discos for a couple of hours one evening per week.

PERFORMING ARTS PROJECT - We do not employ anyone at present on this project but rely solely on volunteers to keep the project going.

RECRUITMENT

If you want to become part of the Interplay team details of how to apply are below:

SUMMER PLAYSCHEMES / SUMMER CHOOSEDAYS.

Application forms available from Job Centres in Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot from beginning of April onwards.

JOINERS / WEEKEND CHOOSEDAYS / DISCOS

Apply directly to our office and we will send you application forms and full job descriptions.

For information on how our staff are trained, click here

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