Overview:  

• To coordinate and manage a team of activity leaders, ensuring that activities and programs are well-structured, engaging, and aligned with the organization's goals and objectives. 
• Delegate necessary tasks to ALs to ensure everyone’s participation towards quality delivery of the programme.   
• Motivate and guide activity leaders during activity sessions. 
• Support the Activities Manager to develop materials for Social Programme.  
• Manage time appropriately by arriving early to set up activity and gather resources.  
• Promote and update the activity programme using posters, noticeboards, sign-up sheets and in communicating with the students. 
• Complete dynamic risk assessments whilst on activities and take any necessary action. 
• Complete a register for the activity and hand into the activity manager. 
• Ensure all facility bookings have been confirmed for the delivery of the social programme. 
• Encourage all students to participate in all activities. 
• Report all incidents on activities, excursions or elsewhere, using the incident report form process. 
• Attend and participate in all activity team meetings and excursion briefings.  
• Support the Activities Manager to create Activity Packs.  
• Consult the Risk Assessments before each activity.  
  
• Familiarise yourself the Senior Activity handbook.  
• Ask the Activities Manager about any aspect of delivery that you are not sure about. 

• Accompany and fully supervise students in your care. 
• Coordinate ALs tasks and communicate everyone’s responsibility in the excursion brief, such as collecting packed lunches, picking up registers, collecting group. 
• Familiarize yourself with excursion material and the excursion itinerary (these will be provided to you in the pre-excursion briefings the evening before the excursion). 
• Attend all pre-excursion briefings. 
• Ensure you have any required tickets for attraction bookings. 
• If you are responsible for the packed lunches, arrive at breakfast early to eat and collect the trolley. 
• Communicate the weather forecast to the group before leaving so they are prepared. 
• Ensure students are wearing their lanyards containing their school ID, emergency contact information and wristbands. 
• Ensure students are wearing appropriate clothing for the weather. For example, a jacket for rain, etc. 
• Greet the coach drivers, introduce yourself and confirm drop off locations. 
• Complete a student register before leaving on the bus. 
• Carry a first aid kit on the excursion. 
• Build rapport, agree drop off and pick up location and time, and exchange phone numbers with the coach driver. 
• Complete regular head counts and dynamic risk assessments.  
• Support the Activities Manger to create Excursion Packs.  
• Consult the Risk Assessment before every excursion.  
  
• Remain alert to ensure the students stay safe. 
• Communicate updates regularly with the activity manager. 

• Provide Welfare Leader duty cover as and when required.  
• Be allocated a specific student group for the week (where necessary.)  
• Check on students that are having a difficult time becoming comfortable. 
• Communicate to all members of the team any particular student welfare related information they need to be aware of. 
• Actively supervise mealtimes on a rota basis. 
• Complete wake up/night duty on a rota basis. 
• Help with laundry duty as and when required. 
• Assist in keeping the school clean and organised. 
• Collaborate with team members to ensure safety and security within accommodation.  
• Provide basic first aid to injured students. 
• Attend the hospital with a sick or injured student. 
• Intervene in situations of conflict or disruption between students.  
• Be a role model for the students.  

• Carry out duties associated with the transfer of students on arrival and departure days as required by the Centre Manager.
  
• Coordinate ALs on airport duty by providing them with all the arrival/departure information. 
• Allocate a member of a team member to each required airport terminal. 
• Organise communication in an Airport group chat to allow open communication about updates. 
• Provide clear updates to the operations manager about each students arrival and departure stage. 
• Prepare a plan with your activity manager to get to the airport for an appropriate time. 
• If necessary, take a printed Unaccompanied minor form with a form of your ID. 
• Monitor the flight progress with the flight number to stay up to date with arrival time. 
• Arrive to the gate early to give plenty of time for early flights. 
• Ensure you collect a packed lunch before departing to the airport.  
• Arrive at the airport neat, clean and presentable.  
• Keep in contact with the coach drivers or taxi companies as you wait at the gate.  
• Wear the BSC branded green uniform. 

• To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for and come into contact with.
  
• Familiarise yourself with the BSC Young Learners safeguarding policy. 
• To adhere to the BSC Young Leaners Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. 
• Ensure student ratios are maintained in accordance with site rules BSC Young Leaners Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. 
• Complete online Safeguarding for Young Learners (Level 1) before arrival and complete an in-person refresher during on-site induction. 

• Attend onsite induction to be hosted by Activities Manager.   
• Work positively as part of a team. 
• Take responsibility for updating the rota of any shift changes or sick days. 
• Demonstrate a positive attitude. 
• Attend and participate in all centre team meetings. 
• On rare occasions, you may be asked to serve food. 
• Act according to accepted professional standards at all times. 
• Act in the welfare of the students at all times. 
• Make sure you are clean, neat and presentable during working hours.
  
• Comply with the BSC uniform policy. 
• Comply with centre and BSC YL rules and regulations. 
• To carry out any duties as may be reasonably assigned by the Centre or Activities Manager.  

• Competitive weekly salary. Experience pay scale available on request. 
• Accommodation (where applicable) and meals are provided. 
• 42-45 hours per week. Some working hours may be unsociable due to evening activities, night duties (if residential) and varying times of student arrivals/departures. 
• There is at least one full day off per week. (To be agreed with the CM at the centre.) 
• Activity Leaders and Welfare Leaders are provided with two BSC YL t-shirts or polo shirts and a BSC jacket.  Uniform is compulsory when on duty. 
• All references will be followed up and any gaps in CVs will need to be explained. 
• Reference requests will ask specifically whether there is any reason that they should not be employed in situations where they have responsibility for, or substantial access to, persons under 18.  
• Criminal background checks in the form of a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) for UK residents, Garda Vetting for Irish residents, PVG for Scotland, ‘Conduct Certificate’ Malta as well as a police check from your country of residence (if not a UK or Irish resident) will be requested. 
• Proof of identity and qualifications will be required. Only those with the right to work in the UK, Ireland, France or Malta are eligible for any BSC YL position.