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Overnight and Evening Activities Leader

Employer
Warwickshire County Council
Location
Warwick,Warwickshire
Salary
£12.65-£12.85 per hour
Closing date
24 Feb 2025
Reference
RA0006551
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Sector
Local Councils
Job Type
Youth work
Contract Type
Casual
Working Pattern
Standard
Hours
Part-Time

Job Details

 

About the role of Evening and Overnight Activities Leader

 

This role is leading and supporting evening and overnight events at the Market Hall and St Johns House museums in Warwick.

At the Market Hall museum you will be running our Night at the Museum sleepover experience. Groups arrive for the Lego challenge, pizza and chips and watch a film before settling down for a night with the exhibits. You will need to be comfortable lone working for these events and enthused about sleeping at the museum too. We take bookings for sleepovers on Friday and Saturday nights for organised groups of children and accompanying adults.

 

This role also works with another Evening and Overnight Activities leader to supervise overnight hire of St Johns House museum. You are responsible for unlocking the building, greeting the individuals who have hired the building and ensuring the safety of the building during the event. You will need to be comfortable working until the early hours of the morning. We take bookings for overnight hire on Friday and Saturday nights.

 

A Duty Manager is also on call through the Sleepovers and overnight hires.  From time to time the role can also include assisting with private functions at the Market Hall museum alongside the Development Team.

 

About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire

 

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and visitors to connect and engage with their local heritage. We safeguard Warwickshire’s archives, history and natural sciences, protect its historic and natural environment and provide high quality arts and cultural opportunities and lifelong learning for everyone in the County and beyond.

 

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire has several sites based in and around Warwick; Market Hall Museum, St Johns House, Warwickshire County Record Office and a Collections Centre for the museum collections. We are a countywide service and work with partners from within and outside Warwickshire County Council to offer outreach services to local communities.

 

About the Learning and Community Engagement team

 

The Learning and Community Engagement team (Lace) consists of the Senior Lace Officer, a Lace Officer, a Lace Trainee, the Volunteer Coordinator, an Exhibitions and Engagement Officer who are the core team, and several teams of staff who deliver our activity programmes. We deliver workshops for schools at HCW sites and in schools, an events and activities programme for families and adult audiences at the Market Hall museum and the County Record Office, we run regular groups that meet at the Market Hall museum such as Arty Tots, we run sleepovers and supervise overnight commercial hire of St Johns House. The Support Assistant and Overnight activities teams also support the Development Team with the delivery of events for income generation.

 

Our school workshop programme is delivered by a team of Group Leaders, assisted by the Support Assistant team.  The Support Assistant team, with the Evening and Overnight Activity Leaders team, deliver our family holiday events in the Market Hall Museum and evening events. The Evening and Overnight Activity Leaders also supervise and run group sleepovers at the Market Hall museum.

 

 

Key Requirements:

 

We are looking for individuals who enjoy working with people and are friendly and welcoming. Good organisational and time keeping skills will help you succeed in this role.  Teamworking and communication is key to this role. You will have key holder responsibility as part of this role. Although an interest in heritage is useful it is not essential for this role.

 

The post is offered as a casual contract as the availability of work is dependent upon groups making bookings for the Night at the Museum sleepover experience or private hire of the buildings.

 

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

 

Evening and Over Night Activities Leader

 

 

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make 

 

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels?valued, included, safe, supported,?and?welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!? 

 

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure.  Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.  

 

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit:

 

Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund'   

 

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.  

 

Click here to view the benefits at Warwickshire County Council. 

 

Additional Information 

 

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

 

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.  

 

 

To discuss the role please contact Rebecca Coles by emailing rebeccacoles@warwickshire.gov.uk

 

Closing date:     24th February 2025
Interview date: 11th and 18th March 2025 at Market Hall Museum, Warwick.

 

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements. 

 

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See?more 

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