Session Lead

Plymouthoctopus; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A community support organization in Plymouth seeks an experienced Session Lead to oversee weekly sessions for children and young people. Key responsibilities include planning and delivering engaging sessions while ensuring child safety and building trust. The role begins with a two-month induction period, transitioning from 2.5 to 8 hours per week. This opportunity aims to create a welcoming environment for growth and emotional support for youth in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in session planning and delivery.
• Ability to lead safeguarding within sessions.
• Skills in building trust with children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead sessions for children and young people.
• Serve as the safeguarding lead within sessions.
• Facilitate a welcoming environment that fosters connection.

Job description

We are looking to recruit an experienced and reflective Session Lead to deliver our special weekly provision.

The successful candidate will take overall responsibility for session planning, preparation and delivery and will be the safeguarding lead within the sessions. The role holder will have a 2-month induction period, working 2.5 hours/week initially and then move to 8 hours/week after 2 months. This is to ensure the club’s ethos and practice is embedded and to give the children-young people opportunity to build trust with the new Session Lead.

When: Tuesdays, 4.30-6pm. Where: Keyham Green Places, PL2 2DT.

Recruitment process

• Informal conversations: Mon 1st Dec - Fri 19th Dec
• Request Application Pack: 1st Dec - 19th Dec
• (PLEASE NOTE: we have no admin cover between Sat 20th Dec - Sun 4th Jan)
• Application Deadline: 9am Mon 5th Jan
• Invitation to Interview: 5pm Mon 5th Jan
• Informal and optional session visit: between 5-6pm Tues 6th Jan
• Interviews: Mon 12th Jan at Keyham Green Places, PL2 2DT
• Start date: Feb 2026

To apply contact: HaideeDampney / [e-mail] / 07722 846879

About Us & Our Club

The lead provision of The Tree Project CIC, Wellbeing Warriors, epitomises our organisation's ethos: Growing roots of wellness with fairness, we believe everybody should have access to activities and provisions that provide connection and support. Wellbeing Warriors was established in September 2021. We have worked hard to develop our club to provide a welcoming and safer space for children and young people (CYP) to make friends, have fun, keep their bodies healthy and their minds happy. Trauma Informed Plymouth Network’s values and the Five Ways to Wellbeing (New Economics Foundation, 2008) are our roots of practice.

We grow our trees using:

• belonging & connection
• having emotions heard & seen
• exploring food - making & eating
• connecting with nature
• learning tools that support emotional expression
• co-regulation
• being physically active
• noticing ourselves & the world
• creativity
• family times
• yoga & mindfulness
• fun
• conversations
• equity & inclusion
• balancing keeping safe & taking risks
• space for calm

Why we do what we do

The overall purpose of the project is to enable children and young people to explore wellbeing, in its widest sense: emotional, mental, physical, social, cultural & community.

The objectives are that Children and Young People will:

• Increase their awareness of and have a better understanding of their own feelings; to be more confident in sharing them, learning to regulate and co-regulate their emotions.
• Make new friends and feel more connected to others - their friends, family, and the wider community.
• Learn to support their wellbeing in many ways

Who Do We Employ

To reflect our values, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, and positive role modelling to our CYP we actively seek to employ people that represent our wider community and the membership of our group.